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\t\t\t\t\tLaw & Order added another corpse to the pile.<\/p>\n
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\n\tTo be honest, some shows were so lethal, it was hard to keep track \u2014 we had to make an educated guess as to how many people were bitten to death by the hordes of zombies overrunning Manhattan in the season opener of The Walking Dead: Dead City<\/a> (we conservatively counted 10). For other shows, like the quirky procedural Elsbeth<\/a>, we added just one corpse \u2014 usually a ballet dancer or a college basketball star \u2014 per episode. On FBI, the tally depended on the week \u2014 sometimes zero, sometimes a small pile.<\/p>\n \n\tOf course, it\u2019s possible our ballpark figures may be off by a slaying or two \u2014 but more likely we\u2019re undercounting here. We restricted our survey to 40 shows, counted only new episodes \u2014 no reruns \u2014 and were limited in our research to free episode synopses and whatever else we could find online. With more resources \u2014 and another pot of coffee \u2014 Rambling suspects it could have uncovered a much bigger, bloodier number of TV murders.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tNew York, by the way, isn\u2019t even the country\u2019s most dangerous city. That would currently be Memphis, Tennessee \u2014 but it\u2019s not nearly as telegenic.<\/p>\n \n\t***<\/p>\n \n\tAlso in Rambling Reporter:<\/p>\n \n\tDiane Warren reacts<\/a> to being mistaken at the Globes for Ghislaine Maxwell; \u00a0Rambling Reporter investigates the mystery of Jeff Bezos\u2019 shaggy shrubberies<\/a>, which flagrantly flout city ordinances.<\/p>\n