1. The difference between murder and homicide is that homicide is the killing of one person by another. Murder is a form of criminal homicide, where the perpetrator intended to kill the other person, sometimes with premeditation. The different categories under Common Law are 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. 1st degree is premeditated. 2nd degree is intentional; no premeditation. Voluntary Manslaughter is killing but no malice after thought. There was an intention to harm but not necessarily kill. Involuntary Manslaughter is completely unintentional, like drunk driving.
2. The article I found for the state of Pennsylvania about murder happened two days ago. According to the news article, Mark R. Miscavish a retired state police officer walked into a local supermarket where his estranged wife Traci Miscavish worked and shot and killed her and then turned the gun on himself. The incident happened just a few days after she filed for divorce. There also seemed to be a history of domestic violence. A few months ago in January, Mark Miscavish was arrested after his wife had left him but returned home to get a few belongings and he attacked her. He attempted to bind her arms together with duck tape and also pulled out a gun but luckily a passer-by witnessed him trying to drag her back into the home and intervened. The article portrayed Traci Miscavish as a woman who was terrified of her husband and trying to move on with her life without him. They portrayed Mark Miscavish as an abusive man, who also abused prescription drugs. When I typed in his name into google, about a dozen different news websites popped up covering the story, and I don't think they made it too dramatic but the facts of the case itself made it dramatic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/pennsylvania-supermarket-shooting_n_2972841.html
3. One movie that comes to mind when I think about movies about murders in the movie Seven, which is about two detectives, one's a veteran and one's a rookie and they are hunting a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as each of his murders. The second movie I think of is Kiss the Girls which is about a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist who learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. So he goes there and learns that the police think she's among the victims of someone who kidnaps young girls and holds them captive and kills them who dubs himself Cassanova after the great lover. Later, one of his victims, escapes and tries to help the cop find his niece.
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