Did places like the Crich tram museum - the scene of the first grisly murder - realise what they were letting themselves in for?

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The grisly murder in Woolwich has prompted calls for Britain's government to look again at a shelved bill that would greatly expand law enforcement's powers to monitor suspects' use of the internet, which is currently only possible on a more limited basis.

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We quickly changed our airplane tickets, rushed across the border (the taxi had pictures and videos on his phone of a grisly murder that he witnessed at a soccer game the day before) and stayed in a hotel in El Paso, where we could finally feel relatively safe.

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The grisly nature of the murder, coupled with rumors about her allegedly promiscuous lifestyle, kept the investigation at the forefront of newspaper headlines for months.

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The murder was less grisly than it would have been in, say, 1810, when insect collectors stabbed their specimens with pins, asphyxiated them over the flames of sulphur matches, and skewered them with red-hot wires.

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FARC's kidnap and murder of a provincial governor in late December was a grisly throwback to the bad old days of a decade ago.

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