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I said, “Whoa Is this the first time the needle sticker has struck in the front of the body?”

“To the best of e”

“So this was a confrontation,” I said “The victim saw his killer”

“No doubt And they mixed it up”

She bunched the sheet over his privates and showed us the rest of him She pointed out other fresh bruises, four byone on his side, one high on his right thigh, and one on his left shin

“I’ve got soood news”

I looked up at Claire I couldn’t even guess

“So folks saw the killer in action”

Say that again? “There are witnesses?”

Claire said, “Husband and wife saw the hit froed down a cruiser Here,” she said, handing et it while it’s hot”

CHAPTER 71

THE WITNESSES, LYNN and Ray Schultz, were in their thirties, owned a liquor store in North Beach, and given the annual stats of liquor store robberies, I was betting that the Schultzes were quite observant

Conklin and I set them up with coffee in Interview 2, took chairs across froot to work

Ray Schultz said, “Last night, so ho the street Lynn, you tell them, honey”

Lynn Schultz said, “So ere stopped at the light on Union Street”