In another development Wednesday, a lawyer for the man's widow, Shabana Ansari, said Chicago police detectives questioned her in November for more than four hours at a police station and executed a search warrant on the two-story home where she lived with Khan.

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The ashes of a man were stolen from his widow's bedroom while she slept.

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While there, he befriended a wealthy plantation owner and medical man, and subsequently married his widow.

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Lawrence is the best-actress favorite at Sunday's Oscars for her role as a young widow in a shaky new relationship with a man fresh from a mental hospital.

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In a moving tribute, his widow Susan described him as an "exceptional" man who was doing the job he believed in when he died.

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Sean Penn, some sort of math professor with a bad ticker, gets the heart of the dead man, at which point he begins to follow around the grieving widow (Naomi Watts).

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"Silver Linings Playbook" centers on the relationship between a man (Bradley Cooper) just out of a mental hospital and a young widow (Lawrence).

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Mr Thompson's widow, Jo, said she could at last grieve for her "kind and loving" man.

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Flynn misguidedly pretends to set up the area's wealthy widow, Kathy Carey (a spirited, touching performance by Kathy Fitzgerald), with the most unpleasant man in town.

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