The rest is more or less obvious.
Some sorcerers or perhaps a knight visited Aric.
Neiri was waiting for a squad of starving soldiers, and perhaps this saved her from an assassination attempt.
The others were shot. If we assume that Ara was killed and resurrected/protected, let's say by an unnamed character and a sorceress, or he defended himself (paladin), then we can somehow deduce the three required murders from the newspaper.