Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blond. She's seductive. She's just killed her husband. Oh, sure, it was probably self-defense: the guy had disguised himself as a burglar, broken into their house and tried to kill her before she plugged him with a .357 Magnum. Still, you know she's trouble...
Brodwin noted that the outside doors of Jordan K were undamaged, but would not speculate as to whether the burglar had entered the building by force...
...chose neither to flee nor to fall silent but to fight back, Havel was jailed three times for a total of almost five years on the flimsiest of charges. One four-month stretch was served in a cell 12 ft. by 7 ft., which he shared with a burglar. A second imprisonment ended when he nearly died of pneumonia that was neglected, perhaps deliberately, by prison doctors. His last internment, four months of a scheduled eight, was in 1989 for participating in a flower-laying ceremony in memory of a student who set himself afire to protest the 1968 invasion...