The Zip Gun Bomber

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On May 7th, 1982, 54-year old Joan Kipp returned home from her job as a guidance counselor. She was planning to spend the weekend away with her husband, at their Connecticut summer home, to celebrate Mother's Day. But when she arrived home, she saw that she had received a package in the mail: a cookbook, which she believed to be an early Mother's Day gift.

Unfortunately for Joan, the cookbook had been hollowed out. Inside, a three-barreled "zip gun" had been created, which shot out at her as soon as she opened it.

Joan would become the only casualty of an unknown assailant, who mailed out several of these packages between 1982 and 1996. Despite police developing a couple of leads, they were never able to determine the identity of the Zip Gun Bomber... or their motives...

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Lee Rosevere - "Breathing"

ROZKOL - "Spider's Web"

Sann Gusmo - "Sono Sonho Pausa"

ROZKOL - "Turn the Whole World to Rust"

Joao Picoito - "Third Floor"

Vitus Von Degen - "Black Gloves"

Blue Dot Sessions - "Levanger"

Dexter Britain - "Seeing the Future"

Ailsa Traves - "Unresolved Mysteries"

Transcript

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0:00.0	Joan Betty Dallas was born on December 4th, 1927.
0:16.3	She would spend most of her life in Brooklyn, New York, the most populated borough of New
0:21.4	York City.
0:22.4	There, she met and married a man named Howard Kip, and the couple had two children, a daughter
0:28.7	named Dorine, and a son named Craig.
0:32.4	Joan worked as a high school guidance counselor, primarily in school district 20, where she
0:37.8	would end up supervising the counseling programs for the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Benson
0:42.7	Hurst, and Barrow Park.
0:45.2	By 1982, Joan Kip had worked as a guidance counselor for over 15 years.
0:51.4	Her children were now grown and married.
0:53.8	Dorine, in her early 30s, lived in Connecticut with a family of her own.
0:59.0	While Craig, who was in his late 20s, was married and continued to live in the area.
1:04.4	In fact, he lived less than a thousand feet away from his parents in the neighborhood
1:09.5	of Bay Ridge.
1:11.0	In addition to working as a high school guidance counselor, Joan also served as the treasurer
1:16.1	of the Bay Ridge Community Council.
1:18.6	She was actually planning to run for the council's open vice president position, an election
1:23.5	that she was expected to win.
1:25.5	On May 7, 1982, Joan left work early.
1:30.2	She normally stayed until 5 or 6 pm, if not later, but decided to wrap things up early
1:35.7	this Friday afternoon.
1:37.7	She was planning to leave the state with her husband for a little weekend getaway at
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