When the bodies were found, the police and media would assume that they had been killed because of their sexual orientation.

From the look of things, the police assume that Vishnu has died.

Schwartz was killed a few months later in what police assumed to be a revenge killing.

I think the police will just assume he left his wife and his children.

The police must have assumed the bodies had been moved.

The police assumed that it was another mugging gone wrong.

The police assumed it was clothing missing from the woman's clothes closet.

Not that it mattered much, since the police would assume they hadn't found his body yet.

The police assumed she had been murdered, although her body was never found.

Against strong opposition, he managed to have the police assume responsibility for security in the city's school system.