Word: trunk
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...night of Nov. 8, 1999, with four men she hardly knew, down the dirt tracks in a 1,000-hectare plantation of towering oil palms. They brought her to this spot at the base of one palm where a crude scarlet "X" slashed into the bark of the trunk is still visible. And here she knelt for the ceremony, only to feel, instead of the garland of flowers she had been expecting, the bite of a nylon rope cut into her neck...
...lost boy scout. Last year he saved a climber. Surely, he's planting these victims to look heroic GARETH FOX Brit beats the competition to spend a night in a dog pound. Inspired, he vows to win the next contest. The prize? A week in a dirty car trunk RESHMILA SHAKYA Four-year-old girl is named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show...
...March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk. The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A human hand. He scooped some more, and as he did, Holly Maddux...
...evidence against him mounted. Testimony from two friends who were asked by Einhorn to help him dispose of the trunk. The two former girlfriends who ended up in the hospital after trying to break off relationships with Einhorn. One was nearly strangled; the other had a Coke bottle smashed over her head. So much for flower power. The public embodiment of peace and love was in private a monster. Sickened friends spoke of betrayal and wondered if Einhorn had ever cared about anything but Ira. George Keegan: "We were walking down the street together. People who once would come...
...Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered getup that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech...