Hey everybody welcome back to coal case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus dragging you down to the dark depths of the ocean to release the

cracken once again, this time in the form of the incomparable Colin Ferguson.

No, not the Canadian actor who's been murdering my efforts to Google this case properly, but in fact, the infamous perpetrator of the 1993 Long Island Railroad Massacre, which claimed the lives of six innocent people, and left 19 more severely wounded.

You see, on December 7, 1993, 35-year-old Colin Ferguson purchased a ticket to board the number 3 train at Penn Station in New York City,

where he then remained in the third car as the trip commenced and proceeded outside the city limits.

As it approached the Maryland station, Colin, a Jamaican immigrant,

stood up and removed a Ruger 9mm pistol from his jacket,

simultaneously revealing 160 rounds of ammunition in a canvas bag he held.

With approximately 80 other passengers at his mercy in the train car, the agitated man opened fire in a racially motivated attack

primarily targeting white people with Asians being desirable as well.

What followed was three minutes of terror as Ferguson played God with the lives around him, firing

round after round to satisfy his thirst for blood.

So we're not going to be looking at a whodunit in this case.

It's Colin Ferguson.

What concerns me is the why.

Colin follows a pattern of behavior. What concerns me is the why?

Colin follows a pattern of behavior from start to finish.

His actions are the result of inevitability,

not unpredictability. Mental illness is no different than normal brain function,

in the sense that it too relies upon the recognition of patterns to create logic.

The difference is that the logic of a madman is unique to himself

and inaccessible to all outsiders, but the pattern from which it's derived is not. So I want to identify the pattern that unfolded in

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