The Star newspaper suggested instead that a single killer was responsible and other newspapers took up their storyline.

Raven's Wing's retired police chief thinks a single killer is involved.

You know blasted well that we on the force can't drop everything else just to go after a single killer.

A single killer, making his way through the ship.

"We're no longer dealing with a single killer," he said.

More immediately, he added, "malaria is rapidly becoming the single largest killer of young children."

They needed an extraordinary single killer who didn't exist—for an organization that didn't exist.

Drug overdoses have become the single biggest killer among the city's young people.

Police reports and autopsy findings state the belief that it's the work of a single serial killer.

The single biggest killer of teen-agers is sitting in everyone's driveway.