Confused situation of black murder victim (5)
I believe the answer is:
babel
'confused situation' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'black murder victim' is the wordplay.
'black' becomes 'b' (abbreviation as in pencil classifications).
'murder victim' becomes 'abel' (Biblical character).
'b'+'abel'='BABEL'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for babel that I've seen before include "hullabaloo" , "This Biblical Tower was very noisy, too many languages" , "pandemonium" , "Noisy Tower in the Bible" , "Confusion of voices in a tower" .)