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yeah I know it sounds crazy as we have already covered so many instances of bombs exploding or being found and
threatening letters indicating targets but the bombing would continue and by the start of 1952 the threat level or
the terror level in New York City is at its highest in 1952 would have its share
of bombs as well as with the years to follow and we will go through these quickly as we have a lot to get to today
so March 19 1952 there is a bomb at the Port Authority Bus Terminal no one is injured in June the Lowe's theater is
bombed again no one is injured December a bomb exploded in the seats at the Lexington Avenue Lowe's theater this
injured one person police have asked the newspapers not to print any of the bombers letters and to play down earlier
bombings because they were worried about public panic in 1953 an explosion at Radio City Music Hall
this is when a row of seats had been rigged with explosives planted inside of the upholstery now
this goes off this blows up there are no injuries then a bomb is found at the First Capitol Theater
later a bomb again exploded near the oyster bar and Grand Central Terminal so this is where we see
the bomber targeting the basically the exact same location that he had a long time ago but this time he's not going to
put it into an ashtray he's going to put it into a coin-operated Locker and luckily there were no injuries when this
bomb went off police described this bomb as a homemade product of a public seeking jerk
put that on your T-shirt list Captain let's say it again so the shirt would just read on the front homemade product
of public wait homemade product of publicity seeking jerk yeah look at what look what you did you little jerk uh
after that an unexploded bomb was found in a rental Locker at Pennsylvania station in 1954 a bomb exploded at the
Grand Central Terminal this time in the men's restroom injuring three men well I think what we're seeing here is
he was looking for attention that's pretty clear the bombs weren't going off so we don't know if he wants to hurt
somebody or just get attention but to me my gut feeling is I'm trying to get attention I'm trying to get attention to
my cause that's not happening so now we're gonna start seeing you know placements of bombs where more people
are going to get injured right so either way I see what you're saying there because either way if the purpose is to
injure or kill or just seek publicity in in fact now he's achieving he's achieving both of those he's he's
injuring people which is giving him publicity it's almost giving him forgive me for saying this credibility because
before we have bombs going off but these things are being reported on page 28 of
the newspaper right which is fine and I think he was fine with that but once please start saying hey stop reporting
this stuff and now let's take the attention that he's getting and let's minimize it that's when I think the the
bomber is going okay well if you want to minimize now I was diving on page 22 it's on page 40. you know or it's not
even printed at all it's like okay well I guess I gotta step things up a little bit
well after the bomb in the restroom the injured three men someone had planted a bomb in the phone booth an a phone booth
I'm sorry there's probably more than one at the Port Authority Bus Terminal this
bomb exploded but thankfully no one was nearby when it went off now police are having no luck finding what they've
dubbed the mad bomber there were hundreds of of leads there were hundreds of tips and crank letters uh that they
were following up on the detectives range far and wide checking lawsuit records Mental Hospital admissions
vocational schools where bomb Parts might be made citizens turned in Neighbors who behaved oddly and
co-workers who seem to know too much about bombs were getting turned in as well now a new group I know a guy
the a new group the bomb investigation unit was formed to work on nothing but bomber leads on November 7th 1954 a
capacity Radio City Music Hall audience of 6 200 people watched Bing Crosby's White Christmas when a bomb that had
been stuffed into the bottom cushion of a seat in the 15th row exploded injuring
four people yeah this uh story or part of the story is very confusing because they're going
to take these people that got injured and they remove them take them to first aid and but they're basically going to
just move everybody back and start the show up again yeah The Show Must Go On so apparently there's a bomb that went
off yeah it's it sounds very strange um and you and I were talking about this earlier and we wondered if there's a
chance that they didn't really have an understanding of what had happened you know that it was in fact a bomb you know
and we also wondered the the injuries couldn't have been great to these people but basically it was a show must go on
mentality where this this bomb goes off and the way that the newspaper reads is that most of the people in the audience
didn't hear the explosion so they removed the injured people and then they just kind of they kind of clear out just
that little section of the theater and then start the show back up again now in 1955 bombs were either located or
had exploded at the following locations the Sutter the Sutter Avenue subway station Macy's department store the
Pennsylvania station twice in 1955 making it four times that bombs were found or had exploded at Penn Station
Radio City Music Hall making this the third time the Roxy Theater bomb and again the Paramount Theater so we're
seeing places being targeted for the first time and other locations being targeted multiple times in December a
bomb exploded in a men's room stall at the Grand Central Terminal all of the incidents from 1955 luckily left no one
killed or even injured well it's more like sad bomber than the mad bomber regardless chaos and panic had more than
just set in it had taken over now crazies were sending Anonymous threatening letters to the police to
newspapers and then newspaper accounts inspired copycat bombers this really is one of the most sustained levels of
domestic terrorism to hit an American an American city in the 20th century in 1956 at Penn Station a young man had
reported an obstruction in one of the toilets in the men's room now the men's room attendant tried to
clear it using a plunger the 74 year old man was seriously injured when a bomb in
the toilet bowl exploded among the debris and the porcelain fragments investigators found a watch frame and a
wool sock that old damn wool sock in April of 1956 the department issued a multi-state alert for a person described
as a skilled mechanic with access to a drill press who posted mail from White Plains was over 40 years old and had a
deep seated hatred for the Consolidated Edison Company a warning circular picturing a homemade
pipe bomb like the bombers was distributed police distributed samples of the bomber's distinctive Printing and
asked anyone who might recognize it to notify them a review of driver's license applications and White Plains the city
favored by the bomber for posting his mail found similarities in 500 of them to the bombers printing the names were
forwarded to the NYPD for investigation on the morning of August 5th 1956 police
rushed to a residential neighborhood in New Jersey where a small explosion had damaged the kitchen of a three-story
home the house belonged to a man named Thomas Dorney he's a security guard who worked at the RCA building in Manhattan
bomb squad investigators found fragments of a pipe bomb that exactly matched the
Mad bomber's devices a bomb exploding in someone's small home in New Jersey this is nothing like the
other attacks right detectives were thinking this must be our guy so often Captain you will see when
people are looking when the FBI or NYPD any of these agencies when they are seeking a quote-unquote Serial bomber
usually when they offer up a profile of this person or one thing that they will do in their investigations at least is
check local hospitals for people that might have injured themselves possibly blowing off a finger or a hand because
you know bomb making is not it's not an easy business it's dangerous it's very dangerous you could have
something explode so this looks very strange where you have we have a small home in New Jersey out well outside of
the city where this bomb goes off in the kitchen and they're now thinking this is
our bomb maker right well and he also worked at one of the buildings that there was a bomb in right well that
that's that is correct but it's a confusing story because what's interesting here is he was a guard
security guard at the RCA building in Rockefeller Center another guard that he worked with
discovered a piece of pipe about five inches long inside of a telephone booth now
he comes up and he's talking with the guy about what he found the he sees this pipe and says look I might
find this useful later in a plumbing project so he decided to take this item home he said that he actually fidgeted
with this item while he worked out the remainder of his shift and on the train ride home when he got home he put it on
his kitchen table and he went to bed well at some point this bomb explodes on his kitchen table and it actually
injured no one in the home even though it blew up most of the kitchen when he could have lost a hand or arm or
something yeah he was fidgeting with it but his his wife and children were in the home and they were all sleeping in
their rooms well away from the kitchen I mean if you play with it too long you might go blind
on December 2nd a bombing at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn left six of the theaters 1 500 occupants injured
one of them was seriously injured now this Drew tremendous news coverage and editorial attention and the following
day Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy met with commanders of every NYPD Division and ordered what he called the
greatest Manhunt in the history of the police department calling the bombers activities quote an
outrage that cannot be tolerated he promised quote an immediate good promotion to whoever arrested the bomber
and directed commanders to alert every member of the force to the absolute necessity of a capture
Christmas Eve 1956 a clerk using a phone booth at the New York Public Library dropped a coin on the floor when he
knelt down to retrieve the coin looking up he saw a maroon colored sock held to the underside of a shelf by a magnet
wool sock yes this sock contained an iron pipe with threaded caps on each end after Consulting with other employees
this is I hate to laugh at some of these things but when you I hate when you laugh too
but when you look back and you're you're talking about things from the 50s like you talked about the we found it strange
that the theater you know the bomb goes off and then they just kind of clear out
that little spot and let the show go on I almost like picture like a little black and white movie in my mind when
I'm when I'm telling these things because listen to this they they see this thing
and it's found in a sock they're pretty convinced that it's a bomb so what happens is this person consults
with the employees at the the library and they come up with a plan let's throw this device out the window
into the park they go what do you saying I think we should take this sock and uh
with a bomb in it and we'll throw it out into the into the Park yeah you see so the man that found this bomb in the sock
he threw it out the window into Bryant Park and then they called The Bomb Squad bringing more than 60 NYPD police
officers and detectives to the scene wait one second we we have a word from our sponsor sock Club a letter to the
New York Journal was received the next month that said that the public library bomb as well as one discovered later the
same week inside a seat at the Times Square Paramount Theater had been planted months before they were found on
December 27th the New York City Board of estimate and the patrolman's benevolent
Association posted twenty six thousand dollars in rewards for the bombers apprehension
two days later on December 29th this is at the height of false bomb reports from
theaters department stores schools and offices a note was left in a phone booth at Grand Central Terminal that reported
that a bomb had been placed at the Empire State Building this required a search of all 102 floors of the landmark
building also on this day a 63 year old railroad worker was picked up at Grand Central and I could not find the exact
reasoning here but police had probable cause to detain this man for they believed he was the mad bomber now this
man died of a heart attack while being questioned at the East 35th Street Station house after his death policemen
continued to investigate this man but later the investigation eliminated him as a suspect okay so you're saying that
law enforcement now to this point of the story have killed more people than the mad bomber has killed I don't know about
that I would put the I would pin this one on the mad bomber and not the NYPD during the month of December because
traditional means of Investigation were leading nowhere Police Captain John Cronin contacted Dr James Brussel he's a
criminologist and a psychiatrist and he had asked him for advice on how to catch
the mad bomber so who is Dr James Brussel he is a criminologist but more importantly a psychiatrist who had
performed counter-intelligence work during World War II and the Korean War he was also the assistant commissioner
of the New York State commission for mental health he has also been labeled as a Freudian related to the ideas or
methods of Sigmund Freud about the way in which people's hidden thoughts and feelings influence their behavior
according to Michael Canal's book incendiary psychiatrists normally evaluate patients
and consider how they might react to the difficulties life throws their way conflict with a boss or another
authority figures sexual frustrations a humiliation at work the loss of a parent
as Dr Brussel read the bomber stories he began to wonder if he could reverse the
terms of the prophecy instead of starting with a known personality and then anticipating his behavior
maybe Dr Brussel could start with the bomber's behavior and then deduce what sort of person he might be in other
words Dr Dr Brussel would work backward yeah reverse engineer this by letting FPS conduct
Define his identity his sexuality race appearance work history and his personality type and most important the
inner conflicts that led him to this violent pastime quote it was simply my own way of
applying what I had learned about people and the years of studying and wondering
he said and my way of taking a step on the road toward unraveling the great mystery of
human behavior Dr Brussel called it Reverse Psychology today Captain you know we call it profiling whatever term
you want to use it was still an untested concept back in the 1950s [Music] foreign
[Music] hey uh so this is the way this thing goes down here Captain Dr Brussel in the
NYPD they're going to invite several members of law enforcement to basically they're going to have an
evening with Dr Brussel where he is going to tell them what he thinks about this mad bomber that they are seeking Dr
Brussel explains that he has examined the crime scene photo photos and letters and he discusses the bombers metal
working and electrical skills Dr Brussel then explains that he developed what he called a kind of
portrait of the bomber and explained that he basically was leaning on his expertise as a psychiatrist and using
Sherlock Home Style hunches Dr Brussels portrait of the bomber is as follows he says FP must be a
narcissistic paranoid he deduced this from the man's manner of communication planting random bombs writing rambling
letters demanding Justice for an unnamed wrongdoing and general attention seeking
Mayhem Brussels would later write instead of admitting failings or weaknesses in
himself he attributes all of his troubles to the machinations of some powerful agency
that is out to destroy him he believed that the bomber was suffering from paranoia a condition he described as a
chronic disorder of Insidious development characterized by persistent unalterable systematized logically
constructed delusions based on the evidence in his own experience dealing with psychotic criminals Brussels put
forth a number of theories beyond the obvious grudge against Consolidated Edison he believed that the bomber would
have had a good education but probably not college that the bomber was foreign born or living in a community of foreign
born the formal tone in old-fashioned phrasing of his letters sounded to Brussel as if they had been written or
thought out in a foreign language and then translated into English these conclusions based on fp's odd
handwriting in the vocabulary his use of words such as Dastardly and ghoulish LED
Brussels to suspect that the mad bomber was probably German now based on the rounded letters of W's
in the handwriting he believed these two represent breast and the slashing and stuffing of theater seats Brussel
thought something about sex was troubling the bomber he believed the mad bomber to be a loner no friends with
little interest in women possibly a virgin unmarried perhaps living with an older female relative
probably lives in Connecticut now he based this off of Connecticut at the time had high concentrations of
foreign-born people and many of the bombers letters were posted in Westchester County midway between
Connecticut and New York City Brussels also told detectives that a broad study of mental patients suggested
that 85 percent probability that the paranoid perpetrator was athletic neither overweight nor underweight and
that he would be clean shaven tidy and polite regarding the physical sufferings the
bomber had described in his letters Dr Brussel considered cancer but ruled it out based on the length of the bomber's
career and the mortality rate of cancer at the time he considered tuberculosis but also dismissed this based on how
easily easily treatable it had become he settled on heart disease as being the most likely physical suffering of the
bomber Brussel additionally predicted that when the bomber was caught he would be
wearing a double-breasted suit and it would be buttoned police did use this portrait to help
them in their search for the bomber in fact they made several arrests and questioned many based off of this
information but nothing stuck then the news media began reaching out directly to the mad bomber radio and
newspaper reports urged the perpetrator to call in to negotiate a surrender Seymour Berkson of the newspaper this is
the New York Journal American decided to publish an open letter to the mad bomber
in the newspaper and it read an open letter to the mad bomber prepared in cooperation with the police department
give yourself up for your own welfare and for that of the community the time has come for you to
reveal your identity the New York Journal American guarantees that you will be protected from any
illegal action and that you will get a fair trial this newspaper also is willing to help
you in two other ways it will publish all of the essential parts of your story as you may choose to make it public it
will give you the full chance to air whatever grievances you may have as the motive for your ex
we urge you to accept this offer now not only for your own sake but for the sake
of the community time is running out on your prospects of remaining unapprehended you can telephone the city
editor of this newspaper or you can go to any police station or even the policeman on the street and tell him who
you are in all cases you will be given the benefits of our American system of justice give yourself up now one to the
surprise of everybody the bomber actually replies two days later yeah he wrote two Journal American I
read your paper where were you people when I was asking for help my days on Earth are numbered most of my adult life
has been spent in bed my one consolation is that I can Strike Back even from my grave for the
dastardly acts against me calling me names is just frustrated stupidity and action signed FP now we
should note captain that this is an edited version of the bomber's letter right he did also write that he would
not be giving himself up and he revealed uh that he wished to bring the Con Edison to Justice he listed all the
locations where he had placed bombs that year and seemed concerned that perhaps not all of them had been discovered at
this time after some editing by the police the newspaper did publish the the letter as we read it right
um they published this on January 10th along with another open letter asking the bomber for more information about
his grievances now their they did receive a second letter from the bomber in in response to their
second open letter and this one reads as follows I was injured on job at Consolidated Edison plant as a result I
am a judge totally and permanently disabled going on to say that he had he had to
pay his own medical bills and it Consolidated Edison had blocked his workers compensation case
he stated go ahead I was just going to say he's given away too much information here well he he also stated that when a
motorist injures a dog he must report it not so when an injured Workman he writes he rates less than a dog I
tried to get my story to the Press I tried hundreds of others I typed tens of thousands of words about 800 000 words
nobody cared I determined to make these dastardly acts known I have had plenty of time to
think I decided on bombs were some of the things that he wrote in that second letter he did provide details about
materials that he used in the bomb stating that he favored pistol powder he promised a bombing truce meaning he
would leave no more bombs at least until March 1st of that year and again after some police editing the newspaper
published his letter this time on January 15th and asked the bomber for further details and dates about his
compensation case so that a new and fair hearing could be held well the bomber responded a third time
and this was received on Saturday January 19th in this letter the bomber complained of lying unnoticed for hours
on cold concrete after his injury without any first aid being rendered then developing pneumonia and later
tuberculosis the letter added details about his lost compensation case and that the perjury of his co-workers and
gave the date of this injury as September 5th 1931 the letter suggested that if he did not have a family that
would be branded by his giving himself up he might consider doing so to get his compensation case reopened he thanked
the journal American for publicized for for the publication of his case and said
that the bombings will never be resumed so we see he almost feels relief I guess
or that he's received some of the justice that he thinks that he deserved just by them hearing him yeah yeah them
listening to his complaint and then publicizing his grievance against Consolidated Edison yeah but this letter
is not going to be published until a day after New York please make a rest yes and okay so to get into that story we
have to introduce a wonderful uh dutiful woman God bless her this is Alice Kelly
now Alice Kelly is a clerk for Consolidated Edison who for days had been scouring company workers
compensation files for employees with a serious health problem so the final clue
came when police received a letter revealing that the date that had begun began sorry the Mad bombers misery right
was September 5th 1931. almost 10 years before the first bomb was found now Brussel immediately
ordered a search of con Ed's personal files from that era searching the final batch of troublesome workers
compensation Case Files those these had threats that were made or implied this Alice Kelly she found a file marked
in red with the words Injustice and permanent disability words that have both been used in some of the Mad
bombers letters and printed in the journal American right the file indicated that a one George mateski an
employee from 1929 to 1931 had been injured in a plant accident on September 5th 1931. several letters from mateski
in the file used wording like the letters including the phrase dastardly Deeds the police were notified shortly
before 5 PM that evening they initially treated the notification well first they
got a call on the bat phone the dastardly Deeds well they initially treated this notification as just quote
one of a number of leads that they were working on but they did ask the Waterbury Connecticut police to do a
discrete check on this George mateski and the house that he lived in at 17 4th Street
well after Waterbury Police went there they eventually were accompanied by four NYPD detectives and when they arrived at
mateski's home with a search warrant shortly before midnight on Monday January 21st they asked him for a
handwriting sample and to make the letter G he made the G looked up and said I know
why you fellas are here you think I'm the mad bomber the detectives asked what FP stood for and then the man responded
FP stands for fair play he then LED them to a garage Workshop where they found he's waiting for
something way better than that they found pipes and connectors suitable for bombs these were hidden throughout as
well as three cheap pocket watches Flashlight batteries brass terminal knobs and unmatched wool socks of the
type used to transport some of the bombs mateski had answered the door in pajamas
and after he was ordered to get dressed for a trip to the Waterbury Police Headquarters he reappeared wearing a
double-breasted suit and of course it was buttoned up in the interrogation mateski eagerly explained everything his
motive to receive compensation for his debilitating tuberculosis where the bomb making supplies were they
were in a hidden compartment inside his home why did he resort to bombs he said that there was no other choice
when asked weren't you worried that innocent people would be harmed he said that I used to pray no one would be hurt
by my bombs especially on Sunday when he was in front of reporters George grinned ear to ear smiling for the
cameras and in enjoying the uh attention as a dastardly smile uh he's he's got some crazy eyes I think
uh he he looks a little a little gone to me in some of those pictures but it's weird because in those pictures as well
with the reporters he's he's almost proud to be standing in front of them in handcuffs in his Sunday Best he's
smiling he he's he's kept himself up nice on his appearance for these photographs now although the NYPD did
officially credit Alice Kelly with turning up the clue that led to meteskey's arrest she later declined to
claim the 26 thousand dollars in Rewards saying that she had merely been doing her job boy and isn't it possible too
that her work could claim the reward because she was working on company time but I I believe they decline the reward
as well and mateski admitted to placing 32 bombs now after a grand jury heard testimony
from 35 Witnesses this including police experts and some people that were injured by the bombs he was indicted on
47 charges of attempted murder damaging a building by explosion maliciously endangering life and carrying concealed
weapons this would be the bombs seven counts of attempted murder were charged based on the Seven Persons injured in
the preceding five years due to the statute of limitations in the case mateski was held at Manhattan's Bellevue
Hospital where he had been undergoing psychiatric examination after hearing from Psychiatric experts judge Samuel
Leibowitz declared mataski a paranoid schizophrenic and stated that quote he was hopeless and incurable both mentally
and physically and found him legally insane and incompetent to stand trial the judge committed mateski to the I'm
probably not going to get this right here Captain I'll give it a shot go for Matawan Mateo one there we go we'll give
it Mateo One hospital for the criminally insane this was in Beacon New York [Music]
I guess mateski was only expected to live a few weeks due to his Advanced tuberculosis but mateski had to I mean
it was so bad he had to be carried into the hospital at this time then after a year and a half
keep in mind he's he's actually receiving treatment for this now that he is locked up right so he's receiving
treatment for his illness but he's also receiving treatment for his mental health as well
a newspaper article this was written 14 years later remember he was only expected to live a few weeks
an article written 14 years later described the then 68 year old mateski as quote vigorous and healthy looking
they stated that mateski was a model inmate and he had caused no trouble he was visited regularly by his sisters he
was living with his two sisters when he was arrested which is crazy that that was in the profile possibly living with
the older female relative I mean I find that fascinating well you know who else he was occasionally visited by while he
was there was Dr Brussel himself uh to whom he would point out that he had deliberately built his bombs not to
kill anyone in 1973 the United States Supreme Court ruled that a mentally ill defendant could not be committed to a
hospital operated by the New York State Department of Correction Correctional Services unless a jury finds him
dangerous now since mateski had been committed to to this hospital without a jury trial he was then transferred to
the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center their doctors determined that he was harmless and because he had already served
two-thirds of the 25-year maximum sentence right he would have received had he had a jury trial mateski was
released on December 13 1973 with the single condition that he make regular visits to a Connecticut Department of
Mental hygiene clinic now interviewed by a reporter upon his release mateski said that he had sworn
off violence but reaffirmed his anger and resentment toward Consolidated Edison mateski returned to his home in
Waterbury where he died 20 years later on May 23 1994 at the age of 90. now although mateski's bombs never killed
anyone and he states that he built them so that they would not kill anyone and it was more than the police call it
a miracle that none of the bombs ever killed anyone and they stated that it was more because of strange luck that
they hadn't killed anyone rather than fair play overall that praying he was doing you know yeah who makes a bomb
sets it up well they actually make the bomb so it doesn't really hurt people but it might hurt people then you put
the bomb into play and then you sit around praying the whole time that it doesn't hurt anybody well I think a lot
of these actions are going to reaffirm the fact that he was probably the diagnosis was correct of him being a
paranoid schizophrenic um According to some investigators both the Zodiac Killer and Ted Kaczynski aka
the Unabomber uh were both somewhat inspired by George mateski the who would be known as New York City's mad bomber
before we leave you today here's a quote from George mateski one thing I can't understand is why the
newspaper labeled me the mad bomber that was unkind [Music] well at least they're not sending bombs
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Brief Summary

The episode details the 1952-1956 New York bombings by George Metesky, including police investigations and psychological profiling.

Key points

The Mad Bomber's Terror. The bombing spree in New York City escalates, with multiple incidents causing panic.
Dr. Brussel's Profiling. Psychiatrist Dr. James Brussel develops a psychological profile of the mad bomber.
The Mad Bomber's Profile. Detectives create a profile of the bomber, predicting his appearance and demeanor.
Open Letter to the Bomber. The New York Journal American publishes an open letter urging the bomber to surrender.
The Bomber Responds. Surprisingly, the mad bomber replies to the newspaper's letter, expressing his grievances.
Discovery of the Clue. Alice Kelly finds a crucial file that leads to the identification of the mad bomber.

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Episode quotes

The bombing continues, and the terror level in New York City is at its highest.

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