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S5 Ep63: The Bishop (John P. Tomkins)

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Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

An unknown entity attempts to manipulate the stock prices of two companies by mailing threats to investment firms. 

Prelude: Luke Helder places pipe bombs in mailboxes across the Midwest.

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

1:02.9

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

1:10.3

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

1:15.4

according to former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt.

1:18.8

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

1:23.7

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

1:30.5

What changed that?

1:33.3

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

1:38.3

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

1:44.9

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

1:50.7

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

1:56.9

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

2:03.4

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

2:09.1

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

2:14.8

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

2:22.7

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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