CHAPTER SIXThe Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle both ran stories on the Leroy McKinney murder. The Chron gave it a couple of paragraphs on an inside page. To the San Francisco papers events in Oakland were by definition minor stories. The Trib gave it a banner above the logo and a top position on page 3.
There were a pair of photos of the crime site. The body had been removed and the photo centered on the taped outline on the hangar floor. The monkey wrench was still in place, and it could still be seen, surrounded by its own outline of tape, in a corner of the picture.
The Trib photographer had got a picture of the body, and in fact he must have gone back to the hangar for a second shoot to get the tape after the body was gone. And he’d somehow managed to shoot a close-up
