The CBS Murders by Richard Hammer

Author:Richard Hammer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504039079
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Nash did not think the Margolies offer a low one, did not consider himself either ill used or ill paid by his procurer. Despite the rumors, the unfounded stories, the movies, murder is not a particularly high-paying job on the scale of contract crimes, and especially not when the would-be hired killer is from outside the ranks of known assassins and has no reputation to back him up. Unlike assaults, robberies, burglaries, and other assorted crimes, there is, with murder, no victim around later to possibly identify the perpetrator. So Nash thought $8,000 for the work neither demeaning nor a small amount, considering that if the killings went according to plan, they could never be traced back to him and there would be nothing to link him to his victims.

As soon as he left that meeting with Margolies at Ike and Mike’s, he set about to prepare himself. It is not difficult to get a .22-caliber automatic, and Nash got one someplace, or, perhaps, he already had one, no one is certain. It is just as easy to buy ammunition for a .22, and he got that, too. And it is almost as easy to buy a silencer. Nash picked up a copy of The Shotgun News and went through it carefully, marking a few items. Then he turned to his nephew Thomas Dane for help. Dane, for some reason, possessed a license from the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Bureau to buy and transport weapons in interstate commerce. Dane, then, was the obvious person to do the ordering. Using Dane’s license and Dane’s address, Nash ordered, to be shipped collect, the eleven component parts that, once assembled, became a silencer, from the Military Accessories Corporation in Cleveland, S.C., for $160, and the sleeve to fit around the parts and attach to the pistol, from Catawba Enterprises in Marietta, Ga. Within days, the packages arrived via United Parcel. Dane paid the bills and turned the packages over to his uncle. Later, Dane would deny ever opening the packages, ever seeing the silencer or even the .22. “I may have asked what was in the packages, I’m not sure,” he would say.

Now Nash was ready. He drove out to Ridgewood, parked near Barbera’s building, and examined the area, marking the potential places where he might take Barbera and Chin, together or separately, undetected. He waited. The opportunity did not come quickly. But he had the photographs of Barbera and Chin and so could recognize them when they appeared. When Barbera emerged from her building, either alone or with Chin, he followed wherever she went, day after day, noting her schedule, her routine, the places she went, the times she went out alone, and the times when Chin was with her. He kept watching for an opportunity to take them together. It did not come. Perhaps out of some half-realized sense of impending danger, perhaps merely following the normal habits of the years, Barbera rarely was in an isolated place, seemed always to

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