Kelly had said, “There’s twenty-one barrels buried back there, under the warehouse. They better not dig there.” But Schlichtmann would never find out what Kelly knew. Kelly had died of a heart attack not long after speaking to Pasqueriella. And Vincent Forte, who was reputed to have known everything that went on at the plant, had also died of a heart attack, on the eve of his second deposition.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 975