Right, Doc, but here's how I figure it;
You're blasting clickety-clickety through the weeks. You don't necessarily really notice names or anything. But even with a generic "bad sh*t has happened to a girl" icon on the opposite side where it would be for other dialog events, it would jump out. I mean its already bright red, but I'll go through and wonder "police raid? dead girl? Whatever." And if it was actually a unique picture, then you'd connect name to face, if you managed to glimpse it.
Okay, so "dead", "raped" and "tortured" probably don't need unique thumbs in the distributed version; however, I still hold the opinion that it should be an option, for enterprising girl makers.
Edit: Death could also easily be substituted with "defeat". And I like Mehzerz idea of overlaying small text on the icon, but I'm sure that would take some song-and-dance to make it look good -- best of luck, friend.