Two motorists, fatally shot, are discovered on ribbons of asphalt in two adjacent Mississippi counties with shell casings nearby -- but with no apparent signs of robbery, no witnesses and no motive.
This is the unsettling mystery Mississippi law enforcement officials are trying to crack Tuesday morning. So far, they seem to have more questions than answers, but they're not ruling out one chilling theory: that the shooter pulled the victims over while impersonating a police officer.
The details of the two shootings and the investigation are detailed in an Associated Press report. According to the wire service, Thomas Schlender, 74, of Nebraska, was fatally shot in Panola County, in northwest Mississippi, as he was on his way to Florida to pick up a grandson. Police found his body on May 8 in his Ford F-150 pickup truck, which had crashed into a median divider.