Aim at a historical conspiracy. We can show he had a history of selling meth. We can get a conviction. We don't have jack on that front. But we can include Christine's murder as an element of that conspiracy.
Justice is served.
Schmitz is not impressed. It's natural for one to quickly discount the other, because at first glance they couldn't be more different. He talks in a slow Nebraska drawl, turning tales of dangerous arrests into funny, expletive-filled anecdotes. He wears charcoal-colored suits and speaks quickly, laughing easily and loudly. But the Elkins case is not a laughing matter.