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Criminology

The 1988 Kansas City Explosion

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.77K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Just after Thanksgiving, in 1988, six Kansas City, Missouri firefighters lost their lives while responding to a truck fire at a construction site. What they didn't know was that explosive materials, five times the amount used by Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing, were in containers on the site. The resulting explosion was devastating. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss this devastating event in Kansas City's history. Five people were eventually convicted for setting the fire that caused the massive explosion. But questions have lingered about this case for many years, with some people believing that the five were innocent. You can help support the show at patreon.com/criminology An Emash Digital Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.

0:35.9

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1:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 107 of the Criminology Podcast on Mike Ferguson.

1:13.6

And this is Mike Morphard.

1:15.4

Morph, how are you doing right now, buddy?

1:17.9

I don't have a complaint in the world. I'm doing as good as can be expected. How about you?

1:22.8

Yeah, yeah. Same here. Families all good. Everybody's just trying to stay safe, man.

1:28.6

Yeah, I just got to hang in there and just wait things out and try and stay healthy and do our parts.

1:36.0

Yeah, my wife, who's a teacher and she's at home, but she's having conference calls with the kids,

1:42.9

and they're trying to do things. My kids still have some homework, you know, not obviously not as much

1:49.0

as they would have, but that's where we're at right now.

1:53.0

Morph, we've seen some amazing Patreon support lately, which is great for us.

1:59.9

I don't know if you and I have talked about it. I've talked about it on some of my other podcasts,

2:03.8

but nobody's immune to what's going on in the world right now.

2:08.4

And that includes advertisers who, like everyone else, I think, they pulled back because of

2:17.1

the economic impact that this crisis has had on the world. So that's tough for people like

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