So why’d Sammy wear #27?  Wait a minute… what’s halfway between 19 and 27…

It was called the Masjid of Tucson, a mosque where Muslims could worship and study the Koran in the Arizona desert under the idiosyncratic tutelage of Rashad Khalifa, its founder. On Jan. 31, 1990, the mosque, at the intersection of Sixth and North Euclid, near the University of Arizona campus, became the scene of a murder investigation.

Khalifa was found near the kitchen that morning, stabbed to death. It appeared ...