A shot went off, the first visitor died.Īn accident, the woman told Sergeant Hinderliter, the gun had gone off by accident. A minute later the other man came through the door. A car pulled up outside and flashed its lights. She told him to get off and get out she warned him she was expecting another man. She woke up after midnight to find a man on top of her, making love to her. He’d also found a woman there, and this was her story: He’d found the body-a black man with a bullet hole in his back-lying on the floor in Apartment 44 of the North Euclid Avenue project at the western edge of town. Sergeant Forrest Hinderliter of the Gila Bend (Arizona) Police had been up since two in the morning with a dead body and a shaky story. Get access to every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. This article originally appeared in the August 1973 issue of Esquire.