Chapter Forty-Nine
FBI technicians mounted a laser device behind the eatery to align the chair in which the dead man had been sitting with the bullet hole in the plate glass window at the rear of the dining room. The beam ended where the slug had flattened against a metal brace before falling to the floor.
Then came the second discovery.
One of the technicians had followed the other end of the beam to the point from which the round had been fired. The pinpoint of red light ended on a small rise just short of half a mile from the restaurant, and approximately one foot from an empty cartridge case sticking about an inch out of the ground. The agents standing on the rise concluded that the shooting had not been an accident.
“Whoever fired the shot didn’t cover his tracks very well, did he
