"A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then they started talking about a different case altogether."
The two old adversaries take chairs facing each other across six feet of wood laminate. I perch on a bench halfway between them and fan out the objects I’ve been permitted: notepad, pen, digital recorder.
Larry Thompson's most famous murder inspired two books and a movie. Was he also responsible for a crime that's haunted Louisiana for nearly 50 years? In the latest Atavist story, “Conversations with a Hit Man,” David Howard joins a retired FBI agent, Myron Fuller, on a journey to confront the past.
Read an excerpt from part one on Longreads.













