There's the Amityville horror house in Long Island, N.Y., the inspiration for several horror movies and site of a gruesome murder in 1974.

纽约州长岛就有一座名为“Amityville Horror”的鬼屋。好几部恐怖片的灵感都来自这座房子，1974年这里还曾发生过一起令人毛骨悚然的谋杀案。

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It was a spectacularly gruesome and public form of torture and execution, and was reserved only for this most serious crime, which was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital offences.

这是一种及其可怕及其残忍的酷刑和死刑，只会判给那些最严重的罪行，比谋杀，危害人身安全更为严重的罪行。

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Now it seemed she had died in a murder that was a gruesome echo of the fictional one she had helped to make so famous.

现在看来，她死于谋杀这一点，竟与她所扮演的那个著名角色成了可怕的呼应。

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Self-confessed "story junkie" Chris Paton began uncovering the details of a gruesome murder while looking into his family history about 10 years ago.

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But lately Japan has a few well-publicized reasons to worry about its own young people: a 14-year-old Kobe boy's gruesome murder of a younger child, a 13-year-old Tochigi boy's fatal knifing of a teacher, an upsurge of teenage theft and prostitution, an epidemic of teen rudeness on trains and streets, an explosion of outlandish clothing, tattooing and body-piercing.

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Neither Knox nor Sollecito was in court for the hearing, which opened with a summary of the gruesome murder, although Sollecito's father attended.

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