At the scene a man withabig forehead, gray hair, a flat nose, and a few missing teeth lay on the sidewalk, next to a stack of books and an empty coffee-cup.
That same year, a man named Menachem Lieberman had approached Ranta's trial lawyer to tell him he "had uncertainty and discomfort" with his identification of Ranta, and later gave the unit a sworn statement recounting how a detective had told him to "pick the one with the bignose" Ranta out of a police lineup.