"A real sniper would have destroyed this wall or patched it up and picked up his casings and we'd never have known," he said.
His eyes casing me as though to say, I know and you know that I know, so what are you going to do about it?
Entering Senebkay's tomb for the first time, Wegner found it had been sacked by ancient looters, with his mummified casing ripped apart, and some of the tomb's decorations and trinkets removed.
In the windowless upstairs bedroom, Reeves lay naked on the bed in a pool of blood, a gun between his feet, a shell casing beneath his corpse, a bullet in his brain and a thick spray of his gore stretching up the wall to the slanted ceiling.
They swayed into one another at the stops and turns, and it was during one of these mash-ups that Mallon felt the hand casing his rear pockets, both empty: his billfold, passport tucked inside, was buttoned into the breast pocket of his suit jacket.
Instantly, he wondered if that might be the tool by which this ghost was casing his hard drive.
Over a span of two days in 2005, Nasheed survived a suspicious car accident and then caught people casing his home in Colombo.
Although his gun was still holstered to his side, a.45 shell casing was reportedly found near his body.
He has it in his grip, and strokes the plastic casing with his thumb and feels the metal tip and the bump of the tiny bolt on the side with his index finger.
His corpse was found in a ravine by the dark desert highway early last Saturday morning, near his motorcycle, bullets in his back, shell casings nearby.
