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Darkness - Episode 6: 19 days | Austin Bomber

<p>It has been nearly three weeks since the first bomb killed Stephan House, beginning an unprecedented time of terror in Austin. Law enforcement officials are closing in on the top suspect, and no one knows what will happen as the net closes around him.</p>

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Episode 6: 19 days | Austin Bomber

The courtyard by Marriott, it's right off Interstate 35, one of the several hotels along

a stretch of access road in Round Rock, just north of Austin.

The parking lot wraps around the building.

Once all of the cars are parked on the front and side parking lots, except for few

stragglers who park alone behind the building, probably to avoid door dings and rear ends.

He's in his dad's Nissan Pathfinder, facing a hedge that lines the backside of a parking

During the day, the sky above the road here is wrapped in cable lines, but it's dark,

and the only source of light comes from the street lamps overhead and inside the car.

We don't know what was going through Mark Condit's mind, whether he was scared or not.

He doesn't know that the FBI has detained his roommate Colin Thomas, but what he does

know is that investigators are on to him.

He must be aware that they know where he lives.

He's the one behind the serial bombings in Austin, so the fact that emergency services

arrived at his house doesn't seem like a coincidence.

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	You're listening to the drag.
0:09.2	Mark Condit sits in his car.
0:12.4	It's almost midnight.
0:14.0	He's parked at a hotel.
0:15.7	The courtyard by Marriott, it's right off Interstate 35, one of the several hotels along
0:21.0	a stretch of access road in Round Rock, just north of Austin.
0:26.2	The parking lot wraps around the building.
0:29.2	Once all of the cars are parked on the front and side parking lots, except for few
0:33.6	stragglers who park alone behind the building, probably to avoid door dings and rear ends.
0:40.6	He's in his dad's Nissan Pathfinder, facing a hedge that lines the backside of a parking
0:45.8	lot.
0:47.2	During the day, the sky above the road here is wrapped in cable lines, but it's dark,
0:53.2	and the only source of light comes from the street lamps overhead and inside the car.
0:59.8	We don't know what was going through Mark Condit's mind, whether he was scared or not.
1:06.2	He doesn't know that the FBI has detained his roommate Colin Thomas, but what he does
1:12.0	know is that investigators are on to him.
1:17.0	He must be aware that they know where he lives.
1:20.4	He's the one behind the serial bombings in Austin, so the fact that emergency services
1:24.9	arrived at his house doesn't seem like a coincidence.
1:29.0	He turns on his phone.
1:30.2	It's been off for hours.
1:33.9	And then, he begins to record his story.
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Episode 6: 19 days | Austin Bomber

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