Death of a Salesman

Insurance agent shot dead. Greatest guy in the world, everyone said. Except...

The records show that Schiller was charged with distribution and possession of heroin and that a judge dismissed the distribution charge. The judge ordered Schiller to be evaluated for drug abuse and to undergo random drug tests. If Schiller did not get in trouble again by August, the possession charge was also to be dismissed.

And does this sound strange for you (emphasis added)?

Joanne Bolanes, Schiller's next-door neighbor for seven years, said he baby-sat her children and came over for dinner regularly.

''Eddie had a lot of friends," she said. ''He was always a handshake and a smile."

Bolanes said Schiller, an avid motorcyclist, took her 10-year-old son, Zachary, to motorcross events and taught him mechanics. ''He was like Uncle Eddie to him, showing him how to work on carburetors," she said. Bolanes said Schiller was at her home for dinner Wednesday and seemed to be his usual fun-loving self.

And this?

He loved his Yamaha motorcycle and rode it in a recent leukemia fund-raiser planned by a neighbor, friends said. He held popular Christmas bashes. And he played hide-and-seek and other games with the Bolanes children as if they were his own.

Grown men don't play hide-n-seek and babysit unless there is something wrong with them. At least not any grown men I know.