Mad Bomber of New York

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

Comedy, True Crime

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover George Metesky — the Mad Bomber of New York City, the man who spent sixteen years planting homemade pipe bombs in movie theaters, phone booths, and transit terminals all over Manhattan while the NYPD ran itself in circles trying to find him. From 1940 to 1956, Metesky planted over thirty devices, wrote taunting letters to the press, and never killed a single person — and we'll get into why that appears to have been entirely by design. What makes this case genuinely fascinating is how it ended: not through detective work, but through a criminal psychologist named James Brussel who studied the case files and produced a profile so precise it named the suspect's suit style. We'll break down how a workplace grudge against Consolidated Edison curdled into a sixteen-year obsession, how the newspapers that spent years mocking the police ultimately handed them their man, and how Brussel's work on this case laid the foundation for modern criminal profiling as we know it today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	For 16 years, a man planted bombs across New York City. Inside phone booths, train stations, and even movie
1:12.9	theater seats, injuring dozens and vanishing without a trace.
1:17.7	He left behind cryptic letters, signed FP, and a single obsession, revenge against Con Edison.
1:25.5	As panic spread and leads went nowhere, police turned to one of the first criminal profilers
1:31.3	in U.S. history.
1:33.3	Tonight, we break down the case of the Mad Bomber, George Metesky.
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