Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 444 Publisher: Norton WW & Company. Inc. 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 utally killed. shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders. In the Palliko-Stockton trial. prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offered a illiant 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