Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment.

Mr. McVeigh was not your typical troubled loner who explodes on the nation's front pages.

As a teenager, Ng was described as a troubled loner and was expelled from several schools.

They described him as a troubled and troublesome loner who lived with his legally blind father.

Helping the police force is Ruka, a troubled loner who is very skilled in dispatching the Engineers.

Reese is the quintessential troubled loner, managing to alienate himself from almost everyone in the squad right from the beginning.

Was he a troubled loner, a misfit who cracked when ordered sent to a war zone whose gruesome casualties he had spent the last six years caring for?

It's getting to be all too familiar: A troubled loner erupts with an unfathomable anger, cutting short the lives of innocent people.

With most of the potential hostages out safely, the police established contact with the suspect, George Olsen, 36, who was described by neighbors as a troubled loner.