he’s strong – a full propane tanks weights what, 20-something pounds? – or turning it into a bomb didn’t scare him in the least.”
Lots of info, but of what use I wasn’t sure.
“Can you tell anything from the shoe-tread pattern?”
DiMaggio took his iPhone from his pocket, clicked a few close-up photos of all the prints.
“I’ll send these to a friend of mine who used to be with the Las Vegas’ CSI lab. He’ll jump on it right away so we won’t have to wait forever, like we would if we sent them to the FBI. Grissom will tell me if the pattern is in the data base.”
“Thanks, doc. You’ve been a huge help.”
The dapper doc hoisted the briefcase and returned to his Impala.
I looked over the room and at the footprints.
“Forensic podiatry. Who would’ve thunk it.”
1936
The large two-story 13-room house in southeast Bandon exploded. In less than 10 minutes, it melted into the earth. The heat so intense, apples in the large orchard cooked in the trees. Irish gorse, a dreaded import, oily and thick as a weed infested cornfield, took the flames and transformed them into a million blowtorches.
The home’s owner, Mr. Hunt, elderly and expecting the roaring blaze to engulf his home, wanted to return to the building that was his life, slide into his own bed and die within the inferno. Only the efforts of his tenants, the Panter family, saved his life by carrying the trembling, anguished man to their truck.
Walls of flames on both sides of the gravel roadways – tunnels of death. Choking smoke, acrid and thick; eye-burning and bitter to the tongue. Livestock severely burned and dying where they stood. The crippled and elderly’s only hope, the good will of neighbors to extract them from wood houses in the path of the blaze.
Fear. Palpable, all-consuming fear.
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