A shocking or sensational crime.
A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
Dreadfully.
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
The act by which something is taken.
Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
Alluring; attractive.