Roswell Fanatics

It was two days later in the Superior Court where once-retired Judge Albert Roberts was hearing three cases involving the same individual. That individual was Maxwell Evans and - since he was not yet at the age of majority - the hearing was being held behind closed doors without any public viewing. ...

It was twenty minutes later and the fuel was finally burning itself out on the Silverado pickup. Not just the 52 gallon accessory tank, or even the 15 gallons of gasoline and 5 gallons of diesel that had been brought from the Williams ranch. ALL the fuel, including the 30 gallons of diesel that had ...

Of course, while all this happiness, affection, and bonhomie was going on Williams continued to lay on the ground, collapsed onto his own lower legs, about thirty-five feet from the fiercely burning Silverado pickup . The bullet had only been traveling 1125 feet per second when it left the barrel an...

Deputy Pembroke was looking out through one of the shattered front windows when Jeff Parker came back from the rear of the house, running toward the door with a big the big Kabar in his hand. It was clear what Jeff planned. The man was going to make a run at Williams. In football they'd have called ...

Jim Valenti was on his feet for less than a second before Jeff Parker came back from the rear of the house, moving at a good clip and continuing to accelerate with a big honking knife in his right hand. He knew instinctively what Jeff was up to - he was going to make a run at Williams. It was a risk...

Diane had been frantic - frantic as any mother could be - as she tried to get the spent cartridges out of the old shotgun. Double barrel shotguns sort of went out of vogue because they were awkward and slow to reload. You had to push a lever to the side - allow the gun to 'break', the barrel tilting...

Liz wasn't the only Parker with a plan. The moment he'd seen that empty gun cabinet, Jeff Parker knew what was going on. He'd grabbed the big Kabar from the top of the cabinet, and turned and run for the open door. He was going at a full sprint as he came to it. OK, it wasn't MUCH of a plan, but it ...

By the time the shotgun had fired the second time, Williams had found his rifle and as he looked at Diane Evans, a lot of thoughts were going through his mind. He had held that ancient double-barrel himself, once the captives had been 'safely' tied up, only about thirty-five minutes ago. Thirty-five...

"Son of a bitch!!!...," said Pemberton as the fireball of the explosion flared behind the truck. "Head's down..." Even if Jeff and Jim hadn't been warned, the flash of fire would have convinced them something was going on. They flung their faces at the floor and closed their eyes...

There is a tremendous amount of energy in five gallons of diesel fuel. At 45 megajoules per Kilogram, that's very close to a thousand megajoules. Diesel oil actually has four times the chemical energy of dynamite - it's just real difficult to get it out quickly. Dynamite - basically some dilution of...