murder weapon
Killer's chosen tool
A murder weapon is an object used to kill someone, especially as evidence in a criminal investigation: Police recovered the murder weapon from a nearby dumpster.
The term appears constantly in crime fiction and legal proceedings, where identifying the weapon often proves central to solving the case.
Any object can become a murder weapon—knife, gun, rope, candlestick, or household item pressed into lethal service.
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- axeBladed tool for chopping
- daggerShort pointed stabbing blade
- stab woundInjury from piercing
blunt object · hammer · strangulation · garrote · cyanide · pistol · candlestick · lead pipe · rope · ice pick · baton · firearm · cause of death · shiv · hatchet · gun · lethal injection · bludgeon
- thriller tropesplot twist, red herring, cliffhanger, whodunit, femme fatale
- murderhomicide, manslaughter, assassination, serial killing, contract killing
- whodunitswhodunit, detective, sleuth, clue, suspect
- mysteryclue, detective, suspect, clues, sleuth
- evidenceevidence, evidence bag, circumstantial evidence, proof, admissible
- investigationinvestigation, detective, evidence, clue, case
murder weaponnatural causes
Death without external intervention
old age · natural death · heart failure · disease · illness
murder weapondefibrillator
Heart-shocking medical device
surgical instrument · medicine · antidote · first aid kit · EpiPen
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