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On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1989, Ramon Bazurto accompanied his friend Richard Alberts to a Tucson residence for what was presented as a roughly kilogram cocaine sale for about $20,000. The seller, Eric Owen Mann, instead handed over a shoebox of paper and then shot both Alberts and Bazurto in the master bedroom; Alberts died quickly from a wound through the heart, while Bazurto remained conscious for several minutes, suffering a lung wound and a severed aorta before he died. Mann and his then-girlfriend Karen Miller moved the bodies to a rural road near Fort Grant; the victims were found the next day.

Police later found patched bullet damage in the Tucson home. Miller eventually provided a detailed account to investigators in January 1994, and another participant, Carlos Alejandro, corroborated her story, identifying Mann as the shooter and planner. Mann was indicted in 1994 on two counts of first-degree murder; Miller and Alejandro testified for the state after receiving immunity.

Does anyone have memories of the Tucson neighborhood or the people involved that could add detail to this case?