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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: The Zip-Gun Bomber

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Between 1982 and 1996 five packages were mailed to seemingly unrelated New Yorker's, each containing a homemade explosive. Who was the bomber and why were these people targeted?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Licking sideways is not brought to you by Canadian conquistadors. Instead is brought to you by your local cat and or dog shelter

0:07.5

That's right. We're back on that again

0:09.6

And hey, we got an email from our listeners Chris and Kathy

0:12.7

They told us a really really great story about their dogs

0:15.3

Stewie that they adopted from a shelter and stewie worked out great another wonderful success story and another reason for why you should get down to your local shelter

0:24.8

And get yourself a cute little four-legged furry friend cat dog doesn't matter

0:29.3

But they're out there they need homes and you know you need them more than they need you even so get down there now

0:35.0

And if you can't adopt then you know give money or give your time volunteer

0:38.9

So get down there now your little four-legged friend is waiting for you

0:59.3

Well, hey there and welcome again to another episode of thinking sideways. I am Steve of course joined by

1:08.9

Daven and Joe and once again, we bring you a mystery

1:13.3

Don't don't I'll really scary one this week. Well actually in some ways this one is kind of scary

1:18.5

Yeah, there's some there's some

1:20.5

Moments during this one and yeah, it's gonna make it think twice before you do a certain thing

1:24.5

It's very true. Yeah, it's true because this week we're gonna be talking about a mystery that spans 14 years and

1:30.9

Literally scared the hell out of postal customers in New York for a long time

1:35.7

I think that should be the tagline of our show

1:38.4

We'll scare the hell out of postal customers. Oh, no makes you think twice about doing a thing

1:46.1

I didn't want to give away the game by saying what that thing was quite yet

1:49.6

Yeah, but actually you should be scared of doing all sorts of certain things

1:52.8

Yes, there's a lot of certain things that are very scared we'll get you killed this very certain thing is dealing with your mail

1:59.2

Yeah, because we're gonna be talking about the zip gun bomber. You guys have heard of that right of course

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