I took a few breaths and looked out over the front hood of the vehicle, down the ravine and up the other side.  No indication of movement anywhere.  The SUV looked okay from what I could see.  I turned away from the vehicle, maybe to head back, maybe to look around.  I did neither immediately.  I gasped.  There just fifteen feet from where I was standing sat Rick Jimenez, the other reporter, as he had described himself that morning, for the town's newspaper.  His face was contorted and covered with dried blood.  His white shirt completely soaked in blood now drying in the hot sun.  He was dead.