Chapter 29
Murder
...“Turn on channel 13. I’ll call you back.”
Peter dresses, enters to the library, turns on the television and clicks the remote to channel 13. The TV anchor is in discussion with a news investigator.
Anchor: “Amy Patterson is at the scene of a murder that occurred earlier this morning in the Boston Common. Amy, what can you tell us about what happened?”
Amy Patterson: “Brian, I am here in the Boston Common at the concert pavilion. At 5:45 this morning a Boston resident, the police have not released his name at this time, was walking through the park on his way to work and passed by the concert pavilion that you see behind me. It was still dark at the time. He happened to glance to his left and saw something inside the pavilion that he thought was a pile of dirt. He started to walk on, but something caused him, he doesn’t know what it was, to take a closer look. He walked into the pavilion and discovered the body of a man lying on the ground in the spread eagle position. At first he thought the man had suffered a heart attack but closer examination revealed what turned out to be a bullet hole in the middle of the man’s forehead. The man was dead.”
Anchor: “Do the police believe that the man’s death is a homicide?”
Amy Patterson: “Yes, Brian, he was definitely murdered. It is the opinion of two investigating officers with whom I spoke that he was probably shot in the head with a small bore pistol.”
Anchor: “Was the murder weapon found?”
Amy Patterson: “I am told it was not found at the scene...