When a cat is killed and its tortured corpse is left outside the cottage where Blomkvist is living, he and Salan-der realize they may not be working on a cold case after all.

The Bishop stepped near the tortured corpse and touched the seedling tree growing from the chest cavity.

As for McClelland and Harrison, their tortured corpses were recognized by Slover when he was captured and taken to the Shawnee village of Wapatomika.

Further investigation leads them to an abandoned subterranean temple, where they discover a bloody and tortured corpse upon a sacrificial altar.

In his childhood Shirato's father was active in the proletarian culture movement, being one of the few people to be photographed with the tortured corpse of proletarian leader Kobayashi Takiji.

His chest thumped and his thoughts went everywhere but to what he was doing as they loaded the tortured corpse into a canvas body bag on band for just this purpose.

Someone switched on the lights and Sanson saw the bullet riddled field radio, and Doring's tortured corpse sprawled in a corner.

A prisoner - or perhaps a tortured corpse by now... At that thought, I clutched the hilt of my sword with wild passion.

"That's a high price," J.B. said, staring up at the tortured corpses.

When there are thousands upon thousands of tortured corpses, it seems almost obscene for a dictator to be in the dock in a business suit, wrangling over technicalities.