Carella checked with the men Ordiz had named. Each of them was willing to swear that he’d been at the poker game from 10:30 on the night of July 23 to 4:00 A.M. on the morning of July 24. Ordiz’s landlady reluctantly admitted she had spent the night of the 24th and the morning of the 25th in Ordiz’s room. Ordiz had solid alibis for the times someone had spent killing Reardon and Foster. When Bush came back with his report on Flannagan, the boys were right back where they’d started. “He’s got an alibi as long as the Texas Panhandle,” Bush said.
