The FBI also searched the Worcester home of an ex-convict who has a history of art theft.

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The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.

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An ex-convict suspected in the death of Colorado's prisons chief shed a parolee monitoring device days before the murder, officials have said.

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The final highly-moving chapter focuses on the ex-convict's memories of the week and the subsequent slings and arrows of his life up to now.

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The ex-convict was caught and disarmed shortly after the robbery, but it took police considerable time to find out "where he had put the fruit", the newsru.com website reports.

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Though that idea was quickly chucked, several works from that first issue are in this collection, including a story by David Foster Wallace, delivered languidly and without paragraph breaks from an ex-convict, and an essay by Zev Borow about the Hawaiian secessionist movement.

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The slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an ex-convict, and a couple of months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office.

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