Word: truck
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...doesn't shine on the desert towns where California, Arizona and Nevada converge. It glares, searing the asphalt highways lined with truck stops and trailer parks until the air shimmers with heat. In the neon nights, the listless and the luckless -- dropouts, boozers, gamblers and speed freaks -- take refuge in cheap motels. No one knows how many drifters travel the roads, how many alienated Americans hole up in motel rooms, in anger or despair. No one can even say if there are more of the rootless in this desolate corner of America than elsewhere. Theirs is an invisible subculture...
...stopped the phone calls. Late last week the 54-year-old lawyer received a threat from someone the fbi believes is a known violent offender. "I have to take this seriously," Jones says. "The man said if I represented McVeigh, he was going to send a Ryder truck to my house and blow...
...dragnet is Steven Garrett Colbern, 35, who was picked up Friday on an unrelated weapons charge in Oatman, Arizona. Colbern, a biochemist, lived in Oatman, about 20 miles from Kingman, where McVeigh once resided. There are a number of coincidences involving Colbern: he owns a brown pickup truck similar to one a witness allegedly saw alongside McVeigh's car in Perry, Oklahoma, the day of the bombing; he used the same Kingman mail drop as McVeigh; and agents found a letter addressed to ''S.C.'' among McVeigh's effects. One federal investigator, however, cautioned that Colbern was being sought...
...although large for his age and husky, has light hair and no tattoo. John Doe's elusiveness has led some investigators to question his existence -- or at the very least the likeness currently being circulated. But authorities say the sketches are based on descriptions from witnesses at the Ryder-truck outlet in Junction City, Kansas, as well as from a woman at an undisclosed location...
...case, Timothy McVeigh, an old Army buddy with whom Nichols apparently shared a strong dislike of the government. Meanwhile, federal agents in Arizona arrested Steven Colbern, a biochemist, on unrelated weapons charges. He was picked up after investigators received a tip that Colbern owns a brown pickup truck similar to one a witness claims to have seen escorting McVeigh prior to his arrest...