The South County Bomber
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
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🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Between October and November of 1977, a series of car bombs would kill and injure multiple people in eastern Missouri. The victims were middle-class individuals living in apartment buildings in southern St. Louis County, who appeared to have no connection to one another.
As federal investigators began to look into these separate-yet-similar explosions, they began to question whether someone close to the victims was attempted to disguise their true motivations. However, as they'd find, the truth would remain shielded by this culprit's chaotic nature...
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:01.0 | Rommelster Goes |
| 0:11.0 | Ronald Sturghose |
| 0:12.0 | Born and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina, moved to the region of St. Louis, Missouri in |
| 0:17.4 | May of 1976. |
| 0:19.7 | The young man moved to Melville, a suburb on the southern reaches of St. Louis, located |
| 0:24.9 | near the Illinois border. |
| 0:26.4 | There, he lived alone in the 1100 block of Casa, Brazilia Court, and an apartment complex |
| 0:32.5 | bearing the Brazilian name, just off of Interstate 270. |
| 0:36.8 | Ronald, who was unmarried and had no children, worked as a chemical engineer for Monsanto. |
| 0:43.1 | He was employed at their plant in nearby Sa Jé, Illinois, located just across the Mississippi |
| 0:48.6 | River near East St. Louis. |
| 0:51.2 | He would make this approximately 20 minute drive almost every day in his two-door 1976 |
| 0:56.5 | Toyota sedan, which he kept parked outside of his apartment. |
| 1:00.6 | On the morning of October 7, 1977, 23-year-old Ronald prepared to head off to work like |
| 1:07.2 | he would on any other Friday. |
| 1:09.4 | He woke up, got dressed, and stepped outside to make the short drive to his workplace. |
| 1:14.7 | As he sat down in his car, he placed the keys into the ignition and twisted his wrist. |
| 1:20.1 | A brief, powerful explosion underneath the vehicle would jolt Ronald, causing two of |
| 1:25.2 | the Toyota's windows to blow out and destroying the underside of the vehicle. |
| 1:29.7 | Meanwhile, Ronald would be thrown from the vehicle, and the glasses he had been wearing |
| 1:34.4 | would be blown even further away. |
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