People with their partners

Usage examples of couples.

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements.

Would read the papers, watch the news, maybe saw the stuff about these couples on that TV special the other week.

Of course, the story went on to regurgitate the details of the other four Virginia couples missing and later found dead.

They were heading to Mike's house in Beach to spend spring break together when, like the couples before them, they vanished.

The couples, for example, were recreational drug users and had met up with a dealer selling some new and pernicious designer drug that could not be detected through routine toxicology tests.

Or the couples were all members of some secret society, their deaths actually suicide pacts.

Still strikes me as the work of some squirrel out there who fixes on couples, a jealousy-type thing because he's a loser, can't have relationships and hates other people who can.

Wesley replied: "Certainly that would account for the couples pulling over and, perhaps, getting into someone else's car for a routine license check or whatever.

Taking a deep breath as she got out a cigarette, she replied, "I've been interested in the deaths of these couples for a long time.

Abby Turnbull, I read with disbelief, had signed a book contract to write about the disappearance of Fred Cheney and Deborah Harvey, and the "frightening parallels" between their cases and those of four other couples in Virginia who had vanished and turned up dead.

So far, five couples have been found dead and we don't know what happened to their shoes.

Or some drug dealer who gets his thrills by selling bad stuff in some remote place, then watching the couples die.

Politics, Kay "' I suppose if it had turned out that these deaths of couples in Virginia were related to drugs - either accidental deaths or drug homicides - she would have used the information to buttress her anti-drug efforts.

Within the fifty-mile radius where the couples had vanished and turned up dead were Fort Eustis, Langley Field, and a number of other military installations, including the CIA's West Point, operated under the cover of a military base called Camp Peary.

Mark said, shifting his eyes away from me, "that teenage couples were being murdered by a CIA officer at Camp Peary, you can imagine the public's reaction.