Hauser had blown up the Texas capitol while watching the governor’s speech on his motel TV. To accomplish this feat, he simply dialed the number of his disposable phone in the capitol dome using yet another disposable phone which he carried with him. A few hours later, on the road, Greg Hauser burned his disposable phone in a metal can filled with gasoline soaked wood. He watched as it melted.
“They will pay for what they did to me,” he said out loud. “I will make them pay over and over again for her death.”
He waited until the phone was completely burnt and cold. Then he smashed it with several stones, until it was mostly powder and ashes.
He drove his stolen car back to Fort Bragg where he sold it to a scrap metal shop and watched them crush it into a little cube. It was hauled onto a truck and taken to a smelter that day. The evidence was gone forever. He still had his bicycle which he pedaled all of the way to a town outside of the city where he had left the other car to have it worked on. He paid the bill and drove the car away.
Instead of driving directly toward Saint Louis, he took a circuitous route through the southern states. In Alabama, he had a meal of the best pulled pork and he had ever eaten. It was served with steak fries, salad, and a local beer just as Greg ordered. Then off to Tennessee and Kentucky. Finally, he drove northwest to the City of Saint Louis.