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listener discretion is advised.

This episode contains discussion of psychological torture

and violent injuries that some listeners may find disturbing.

Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Terry Marker didn't know what to expect inside the package.

It certainly was a strange one.

It was addressed to a professor at the University of Illinois

at Chicago Circle, but it had made its way back to Terry

at Northwestern.

The label indicated that the package was sent by a professor

here at Northwestern, but the man swore

he didn't know what it was.

So Terry, a campus security officer,

had recovered it and brought it to his office.

The wooden box was beautiful and just begged to be opened.

Terry had no idea what he would find inside,

but he never expected what came next.

The sound of the explosion was sharp,

like a door slamming but much louder.

It turned out the box concealed a rudimentary pipe bomb,

an instrument of harm inside a thing of beauty.

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