garrotter


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Noun1.garrotter - someone who kills by strangling
choker, garroter, throttler, strangler
killer, slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal
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(11,12) Hyoid bone fractures, or Garrotter's Throat, are very rare.
Traumatic hyoid bone fracture--a case report and review of the literature
No one was stabbed, no one was kidnapped and no one took a wrong turn into the clutches of a gang of garrotters. One American tourist did get shot - in the arm - but he wasn't here to watch the World Cup.
Doing a luissuarez: "bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny" - Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the Irish statesman and philosopher who moved to England and served in the house of commons
But villains stalking our own streets worried us more - we reported that Cardiff (like Liverpool) was a place where "professional garrotters plied their violent trade".
The day Mussolini fought for space with Cardiff council officials; Time traveler Take a trip down memory lane looking back

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