Satan Blows a Hot Trombone: The Route 66 Drummond Homicide

Satan Blows a Hot Trombone is what John S. Thorp titled his story about this 1946 Tucumcari Route 66 hitchhiker homicide in "Real Detective", a popular true crime pulp magazine.  My grandfather, J. V. Gallegos, wrote his own notes on the case including how he, along with the D. A., and the Sheriff, tracked down the murderer.  For more, LostNewMexico.com