Citation

Mislan RP. IEEE Spectrum 2010; 47(7): 34-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

DOI

10.1109/MSPEC.2010.5491013

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

it was a dark and stormy night. In a narrow alley on the west side of Chicago, a dead woman is slumped inside her Mercedes, clutching her mobile phone to her head, as if she were still in conversation. Rain pours through the broken car window, blown out by the bullet that went through the woman's temple. A small crowd is standing around the car as Chicago PD detective Nick Fasano arrives on the scene, responding to a 911 call made by a witness waiting in a restaurant line. Fasano knows he's looking at a homicide. For one thing, there's that bullet in her head. He immediately realizes that another sort of witness to this crime might be on the other end of that phone connection. 2006 IEEE.