Yes, and there's two things you always learn from those descriptions of the dead person.

1) Murder victims are people whom either everyone loves (thus giving nobody a motive) or everyone hates (thus giving everybody a motive, a tack culminated in some ridiculous Agatha Christie story in which it turns out that everybody did it).

2) Murder victims are people of precise habits. Always down for breakfast at exactly 8:15 a.m., you could set your watch by it, always have exactly the same meal, etc etc bloody etc.