Draylen's story | Austin Bomber

Darkness

The Drag Audio Production House

True Crime

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Teenager Draylen Mason dreams of being a neurosurgeon, and he also excels in music, which draws an offer to study the double bass under world-renowned professors at the University of Texas. Ten days after the first bomb exploded in an Austin suburb, Draylen notices a package on the porch and brings it into his family’s home. The package explodes, and it becomes clear that the death of Stephan House, a 39-year-old Black man, was not an isolated incident. Since Draylen is also Black, the community fears that Austin’s Black population is being targeted by an unknown serial bomber.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the drag.
0:05.0	It's March 12, 2018.
0:08.4	It's March 12, 2018.
0:11.9	Just 10 days after a package bomb exploded on 39-year-old Stephen House's porch, killing him.
0:19.6	Police have treated Stephen's death as an isolated incident.
0:25.9	The South by Southwest Festival has officially kicked off in downtown Austin.
0:30.8	It's an annual festival with 10 days of live music, movie premieres, and media conferences that
0:37.6	drawn over 400,000 attendees from around the world. The festival, which local shortened to Southby, fills every hotel
0:47.8	room in Austin, impacts every bus, Uber, and Sidewalk with tourists.
0:53.2	Local restaurants and food trucks have lines snaking out their doors,
0:57.6	filled with attendees waiting for a taste of Austin cuisine.
1:01.6	Usually, that means tacos. In 2017, the year before the bombings,
1:08.0	the festival generated nearly 350 million dollars for the Austin economy.
1:13.7	It's huge for the city.
1:15.7	And attendees look forward to it every year.
1:18.9	Locals have a love-hate relationship
1:21.5	with the festival, though. The roads are busy, bars and
1:25.4	restaurants are packed, it's really hard to get anywhere in the city when South
1:30.1	lies in town. So most locals keep their distance from downtown. They pretty
1:36.6	much go about their daily lives. About five miles east of downtown around
1:41.9	640 a.m. in East Austin, 41 year old
1:45.4	Shemika Wilson and her 17 year old son, Dreyland Mason, are getting ready to go
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