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This August 3 day in 1990 should never had come.
He was watching television, it seemed, as his actions played back in his mind's eye.
The show began the previous year, when he stopped to look at a car at the International Auto Sales in Melrose. He soon made the carlot his hangout and landed a job as the shop's part-time mechanic.
Loose talk between John and the business owners, Dorsey Sanders III and Scott Burnside, ended with John deciding to be their hit man. The plan was that he kill Dorsey's mother to prevent her getting a large divorce settlement from Dorsey's father, Doc Sander's.
John was 24-years-old, stout, with a head of thick sandy-colored hair hanging over his tanned face. He usually wore short-sleeved shirts, thus allowing folks to see the Mighty Mouse tattoo on his right upper arm. (Text omitted here)
After that day, the plan to kill Joann Sanders was the main topic of conversation among folks hanging out at the carlot and with the shed gang at Doc Sander's 350-acre Big Ben Ranch. If John didn't grab this opportunity someone else would, they all joked. Joanne Sanders was a good as dead.
The movie played over and over in John's head as he got closer to Melrose. If the story had ended as planned; if the players had been true to script; if he had acted out his part--if only he had not screwed up--he and Paula would be rich tomorrow. (Story included in Murders In The Swampland)
