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n. - Someone who kills by constricting the throat to prevent breathing; An epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it

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  • If so, he should have concluded that the strangler was a non-secretor — and so excluded Carlton Gary as the source of the semen.
  • A serial strangler is outed by a soothsayer.
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