murder weapon

noun

: the weapon used to commit a murder

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Medford Police Department At 12:50 p.m., the murder weapon – a baseball bat – is found lodged in a nearby tree about 8 feet off the ground. Megan Kelly Brown, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025 An autopsy later revealed her cause of death to be blunt force trauma, and the murder weapon was later determined to be a large tree branch. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025 Prosecutor Anthony was frank with jurors, telling them that the state would not produce a murder weapon or the exact location where Selonia was stabbed. Vladimir Duthiers, Paul Larosa, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2025 The fun is watching Flowers and Davenport trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together after one of the bloggers discovers the murder weapon using a metal detector. Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for murder weapon

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“Murder weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder%20weapon. Accessed 16 May. 2025.

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