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Mayhem and Murder
Yucky crime scenes
Suspects galore, solution seeking sleuths
Tricky criminals with
Evasive motives and
Ready alibis
Yet always caught by sly detection.
I specialize in murders of quiet domestic interest. ~Agatha Christie
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly as in life. Alfred Hitchcock
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ~ W. H.Auden
“Murder is always a mistake – one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“There are 4 kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.”
~ Ambrose Bierce
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 Murder has always been a crime and yet a fascination, given the number of murder mysteries and shows there have been over the years. The mystery aspect of such a deed is potent too as it can be so difficult to comprehend why one is driven to the act or the challenge to find the perpetrator.  I was watching "Arthur and George" mystery episodes where animals were mutilated and this was considered horrible crime. It got me thinking of other words for Murder!
Then I discovered that in the 18th c. there were so many murders in Great Britain they created the British Murder Act of 1751 which applied severe punishment on murderers: hanging, no appeal, no last rites and no burial! Yep, Your body could be gibbeted and hung on display and even used by surgeons for dissection! All this to terrorize people into using human decency. 
Isn't hanging a word for murder?  The way of dealing with the horrendous crime still goes on as well.
 Etymology of the word "murder"
It is partly from Middle English murther, from Old English morthor; partly from Middle English murdre, from Anglo-French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English morthor; akin to Old High German mord murder, Latin mort-, mors death, mori to die, mortuus dead, Greek brotos mortal
Before the 12th century it occurred as a noun more:
 the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice
 Something dangerous or outrageous
 a flock of crows
Later a verb format was also used.
 to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice
 to slaughter or slay wantonly
to put an end too, defeat badly, torment, mutilate
 How many words do you know that mean Murder? How many of these are also associated with how murder was committed?
Depending on the time period, setting of your murder mystery you can be very creative in using synonyms for the word "murder". Look at these juicy alternatives! 
Murder: kill, slay, slaughter, assassinate, shoot, gun down, knife, run through, lynch, strangle, suffocate, decapitate, butcher, hack to death, bludgeon to death, asphyxiate, poison, dismember, disembowel, dispatch, silence, homicide, regicide (killing a monarch), suicide, fratricide, genocide, er..stoned to death? drugged to death? 
Or how about:
waste, finish off, rub out, wax, hit, ice, smoke, exterminate, grease, eighty-six, blow away, pump full of lead, take out of misery, bump off, hang.
So remember to liven-up your Murder stories by using other descriptive words to add variety to your writing. Even if it is MURDER! 
Can you add to the list?
Write on!
eyestar
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