
24 Chapter 1
it’s not really a straight line
If it doesn’t all add up, then
something isn’t as it seems
The mystery angle is 18º and the mystery angle is 13º…well,
that clearly doesn’t add up. If the mystery angle is 13º, then
it can’t be vertically opposite our 18º bullet path angle as well.
This means that the line on the sketch from Benny to Micky
doesn’t join up perfectly with the bullet path.
BULLET
PATH
MICKY
BENNY
FOOTPRINTS
18º
CRIME SCENE SKETCH
CASE GEO180
(ANGLES AS MEASURED
BUT DRAWING NOT TO
SCALE)
81º
86º
72º
9º
81º 99º
?º
We thought that this would be a
straight line from Benny through
to the bullet path, but our
calculations show that it can’t be.
18º
13º
18º
13º
This is simply impossible.
These angles could only
work if the bullet path
actually bent right here.