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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 and 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 19th 1952 there is a bomb at
the Port Authority Bus Terminal no one is injured in June J 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 in 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 to 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 there Captain
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
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 going
to 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
mhm 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 it's not even on page 22 it's on page 40 MH you know or it's not even printed at all it's like okay well
I guess I got to step things up a little bit mhm well after the bomb in the restroom that injured three men someone
had planted a bomb in the phone booth in 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 they were following up on the detectives ranged far and wide checking
lawsuit records Mental Hospital admissions vocational schools where bomb Parts might be made right 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 but bomber leads M 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 removed 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 the 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 par 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 americ 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 mhm 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 Plaines 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 bombers distinctive Printing and asked anyone
who might recognize it to notify them a review of driver's license applications and white planes 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 bombers 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 mhm 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 mhm another guard
that he worked with discovered a piece of pipe about 5 in 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 well 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 paramont theater in Brooklyn left six of the theater's
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 Steven 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 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 mhm 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 they
see this thing and it's found in a sock they're pretty convinced that it's a bomb mhm 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 say I think we should take this uh 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 $26,000 in rewards for the bombers apprehension 2 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 mhm 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 I
would put 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
criminal ologist and a psychiatrist and he had asked him for advice on how to catch the mad bomber so who is Dr James
Brussel uh 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 Rel related to the ideas or methods of Sigman Freud about the way
in which people's hidden thoughts and feelings influence their behavior according to Michael canel'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 brussell could start
with the bombers behavior and then deduce what sort of person he might be in other words Dr Dr brussell would work
backward yeah reverse engineer this by letting fp's 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 in 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 brussell called it Reverse Psychology today Captain you know we call it profiling whatever term you want
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thing goes down here Captain Dr brussell and the NYPD they're going to invite several members of law enforcement to
basically they're going to have an evening with Dr brussell where he is going to tell them what he thinks about
this mad bomber that they are seeking Dr brussle explains that he has examine the
crime scene photo photos and letters and he discusses the bombers metal working and electrical
skills Dr bressel 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 Holmes style hunches Dr
brussel's 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 bombss 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 mechan 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 and his own experience dealing with psychotic criminals Brussel 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 dly and ghoulish LED Brussel 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 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 Brussel also told detectives that a
broad study of mental patients suggested that 85% probability that the paranoid perpetrator was athletic neither
overweight nor underweight and that he would be clean shaven tidy and pol light 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 M he considered tuberculosis
but also dismissed this based on how easil easily treatable it had become he settled on heart disease as being the
most likely uh physical suffering of the bomber Russell 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 arrest and question 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 burkson
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 guarant anes 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 acts we urge you to accept this offer now not only 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 2 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 bombers letter right he did also write that he would not be giving
himself up and he revealed uh that he wished to bring the conedison 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 news 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
there 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 giving 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 rates 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 MH 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 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 publicize 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 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 police make an arrest 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 begone 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 KH 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 5:00 p.m. that evening they initially treated
the notification well first they got a call on the bat phone for the dast 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 Waterberry
Connecticut police to do a discreet check on this George mateski and the house that he lived in at
174th Street well after Waterberry police went there they eventually were accompanied
by four NYPD detectives and when they arrived at matest '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 his I was 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 the
Waterberry Police Headquarters he reappeared wearing a double breasted suit and of course it was button up in
the interrogation mateski eagerly explained everything his motive uh to receive compensation for his
debilitating tuberculosis where the bomb making supplies were uh 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 aren'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 earto ear smiling for the cameras in in enjoying
the U attention is 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 maty's
arrest she later declined to claim claim the $26,000 in rewards saying that she had
merely been doing her job what 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 declin the reward as well MH 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 5 years due to the statute of limitations in the case mateski was held
at Manhattan's Belleview hospital where he had been undergoing psychiatric examination after hearing from
Psychiatric experts judge Samuel libowitz declared mateski 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 right here Captain I'll give it a shot
go for it Matan mataan there we go we'll go with mataan hospital for the criminally
insane this was in Beacon New York mhm 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 uh 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 describe 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 an older female relative I mean I find that fascinating well you know who else
he was occasionally uh visited by while he was there was Dr Brussel himself mhm uh to whom he would point out 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 creedmore psy Patric Center there
doctors determined that he was harmless and because he had already served 2/3 of
the 25-year maximum sentence right he would have received had he had a jury trial mateski was released on December
13th 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
Waterberry where he died 20 years later on May 23rd 1994 at the age of 90 now although mat's
bombs never killed anyone and he states that he built them so that they would not kill
anyone it 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 or all that praying he was
doing you know yeah who 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 kazinski aka the unibomber 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 mhm one thing I can't understand is why the newspaper labeled me the Mad bomb
that was [Music] unkind well at least they're not sending bombs to your house you know mhm so uh
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Taken from Michael Cannell’s amazing book titled - Incendiary... The NYPD certainly didn’t understand it. The famously tough-minded New York Detectives stumbled and fumbled, as a harassing band of news-paper reporters detailed every turn. For more than a century the police had relied on muscle and shoe leather to collar bad guys. The street corner respected the billy club and that was that. But reliable strong-arm methods proved useless in the face of a schizophrenic serial bomber. The NYPD’s corrupt precinct Captains and stubborn Commanders resisted the new methods promoted by college-educated criminologist until a serial bomber forced them to adapt. Beer of the Week - Psychokinesis by Grimm Artisanal Ales Garage Grade - 3 and 3/4 bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

The episode covers the Mad Bomber case, detailing bombings in NYC, the investigation, and George Metesky's eventual capture.

Key points

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Bombing Continues in NYC. The threat level in New York City reaches its highest as bombings persist.
The Mad Bomber's Attention-Seeking. The bomber's actions suggest a desire for publicity rather than harm.
The Greatest Manhunt. Following a bombing, the NYPD launches a massive manhunt for the bomber.
Reverse Psychology in Profiling. Dr. Brussel applies reverse psychology to profile the mad bomber.
The Mad Bomber's Profile. Dr. Brussel creates a psychological profile of the bomber, predicting key traits and behaviors.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It's almost giving him credibility!

Discussing the bomber's motives and the media's role.

6:29WatchNov 16, 2023

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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