As Coster-Mullen drove, I examined a scale drawing of Little Boy that he had begun drafting in 1995. “By the time we left the museum, the sky had gone dark and storm clouds were on the horizon. “ ‘Do you have any casings of Little Boy or Fat Man?’ he asked. Energized by forty ounces of Diet Coke, Coster-Mullen ignored the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane hanging over the entrance to the museum and headed straight to the front desk, where he corralled a retired armed-services veteran who was volunteering his time. “At midmorning, we reached the outskirts of Omaha, where we visited the Strategic Air and Space Museum, whose grounds are marked by a towering Atlas D ballistic missile.
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On the road with John Coster-Mullen, a truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb. He’d studied his target so he’d have something to talk about.” According to Lawrence and Ranalli, Sherwin had that fact at the ready when he met the player on the field. The top sports story in the next day’s Record-published the day Sherwin was arrested-reported that the same player had gotten a red card. I open the sports page from October 27-the day Sherwin would have gotten into town-and find an article about the soccer player Sherwin targeted. In Helena, I go to the office of the local paper, the Independent Record, to see how he did it. “Everywhere he went, the Piggyback Bandit had a knack for targeting the best player on the field. ‘That’s public information!’ Sherwin told the detectives.
He’d catalogued the favorite foods of Brandon Brown, the point guard for the Montana Western basketball team.
Sherwin had ransacked the Internet to find biographical tidbits about high school soccer players from Washington and Montana. Upon opening the door to his hotel room, Ranalli says, they discovered piles of dossiers he’d prepared on athletes. “The detectives also found that Sherwin’s choice of sporting events-mostly basketball, soccer, lacrosse, and hockey games-was anything but random.
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