He had convinced himself that he had said nothing to me about the laundry basket.

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But he has been in hiding ever since he escaped from his maximum-security prison in a laundry basket in 2001.

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"You just wanna break down and cry, " Steve Wilkerson told CNN, holding a laundry basket that contained the belongings he could find.

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Two police officers who found the babies in Lowe's laundry basket were barely able to contain their emotions as they recalled the events on the witness stand.

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From that he worked out the dominant elements that affect each one, and just whose luck was likely to be in during the Games and who might as well leave their lucky pair of underpants in the laundry basket.

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