identifying a severed head; checking a person's identity

criminal / culprit

confirmation

confirm, make sure, check, verify

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

brutal criminal, vicious criminal

that which is not yet verified, something unidentified

reaffirmation, reconfirmation