Possible Clues:

• Perhaps this killer flew off the handle
• It might be stuck on the chopping block
• A 19 goes up each day in old chopper
• Old flame on the rebound splits leading part of weapon
• Gross-tasting malt liquor brewed in Wisconsin that's also a term for a lumberjack's tool
• Business end of a chopper
• Part of hatchet
• Cutting part of a chopping tool
• A Times leader about Exchequer's first source of cuts