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Placing a Yellow Marker at the Tree Line

Four investigators in FBI and forensics gear at a grassy roadside curb in front of a dense green treeline, one holding a bright yellow triangular evidence marker

What This Image Shows

Four investigators stand at a grassy roadside curb in front of a dense wall of green foliage, all looking at the ground. Three wear navy FBI shirts with khaki tactical pants — one back reads FBI EVIDENCE RESPONSE TEAM, another reads FORENSICS — and the fourth, in black tactical gear, holds a bright yellow triangular tent marker that has not yet been set down.

Catching the marker in hand rather than on the ground is what makes this frame useful: it captures the moment before a point is catalogued, which means the item being marked had just been located at that spot.

The wooded strip behind them is the terrain the official account describes as where the rifle was found. Whether this particular marker relates to that recovery is not established by the photograph. The recovery account and the questions raised against it are at Gun Discovery Sequence, Rifle Found After Feds, and Mauser .30-06 Rifle.

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