On December 11 1966 a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death set his house on fire and left the scene without a trace. A year later when a woman was found brutally killed shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders. In the Palliko-Stockton trial prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offered a brilliant summation that synthesized for the jury the many inferences and shades of meaning in the testimony fitting all the pieces together in a mosaic of guilt. But will the jury be persuaded?