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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Modus operandi, often shortened to m.o. or MO, is used frequently in crime fiction and elsewhere to describe the mode of operation, the tell-tale signature of some murderous miscreant. Modus, it seems, could be eggcornishly misheard as murders.
a mystery locked room that has a murder victim found inside an apparently enclosed space with challenges of detective to discover the murders operandi.
The murders operandi has a strong parallel with Sunanda Pushkar’s death in her hotel room under mysterious circumstances.
... will facilitate easy identification of suspects crime location, murders operandi, global positioning system to crimes amongst others.
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Beware: Murders in Operation. Sounds lethal for sure.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-06-24 10:58:47)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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