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The Courthouse Shooter: Who Walked Out After Three Perfect Shots?

The Courthouse Shooter: Who Walked Out After Three Perfect Shots?

Fear threaded the courthouse that Tuesday morning in 1979 when a man dropped dead in a brightly lit corridor after three shots from above - two to the chest, one to the hand - and no one was ever charged. Who could have planned a murder inside a busy Magistrates' Court opposite police headquarters and walked out unchallenged?

In this episode, I lay out the sequence of events, the key players inside and outside the law, and the one composited detail that made detectives go quiet; can procedural knowledge explain how the killer…

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