As far as Rein knew, Joe Cruz didn’t carry a gun, although she thought he might have had one in his truck in Alaska. “So many people had guns up there.”

“Okay, I’ve been told,” Levin began, “that Joe was known to carry large amounts of cash with him. They say he carried a briefcase, and a lot of his business dealings were in cash?”

“That’s correct.”

“How much cash would he carry at any given time?”

“Oh it could be upward of a thousand dollars.”

That would have been quite a lot of money in 1978. Asked about which of Joe Cruz’s possessions were left at the Lake Wood...