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This episode of Swindled may contain graphic descriptions or audio recordings of disturbing

events which may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Fascinations with death and even anti-government viewpoints are not unusual in teenagers,

according to former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt.

He still was experiencing basically what you and I and everybody else experience and all

of our kids experience in college. What makes this guy build bombs and go across America?

What changed that?

Delores Whirlink spotted something unusual in the back of her mailbox on Friday made

third 2002. From her vantage point, still seated in the passenger seat of her husband's pickup truck,

the item looked like an old flashlight or something. It was a long tube, about two inches in diameter,

with wires or strings protruding out. Perhaps it was a gift from a friend Delores thought.

After all, she had just had a birthday. Delores reached into the box with her right hand to remove

the object. She grabbed the attached strings and pulled them to the front. But before she was able

to hoist whatever it was through the window of the truck, a wire detached, and the bomb exploded

in her face. I thought I'd blew a tire. Delores's husband Bryce Whirlink told the Chicago Tribune,

but then I turned and looked at her and she was covered in blood. So I tore off and went to the hospital.

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