But with the passage of time, the killer could have died or at least be fairly old.

Though he had lived far too long, his father's killer died quickly, his chest rising only once and then going still.

But no man who was not evil and a killer had died at their hands, and none had been destroyed in cold blood.

Those cases are long over, and the killer died more than thirty-five years ago.

The killings stopped in 1984, and the authorities speculated that the killer might have died or moved.

But Jerry does not think that the killer died that night.

He sees nothing wrong with letting an old killer die free after prison has taken most of his life from him.

Instead the hired killer met an unfortunate incident and died.

The possibility that Commander Tucker's killers might have died an easy death didn't sit well with him at all.

They committed political murder by stabbing the victim at close range; such attacks made it almost certain that the killer would also die.