Chapter 125

“Guess he thinks he’s smarter than the police,” an officer said an hour later when he came up from the basement of Oliver’s house. He showed Mike a pistol in an evidence bag. It was, he said, a Glock 37, .45 ACP. “It was hidden in a recess he’d obviously made in the back of his workbench, which sits against the rear wall under a tool board. My bet is he didn’t realize moving it left faint marks on the floor. Or if he did, he didn’t care.” He took Mike down to show him.

“Get the gun to ballistics so they can run tests. I want to know if it’s the one that killed Acker and Norton,” Mike told him.