True Crime Garage /// The Mad Bomber | Forensic Files

[Music] [Music] this is a true story about absolute madness and how a paranoid schizophrenic
serial bomber used gunpowder and homemade explosives to bring chaos and fear to New York the following is an
excerpt from the book incendiary by Michael canal the NYPD certainly didn't understand it the famously tough-minded
New York detectives stumbled and fumbled as a harassing band of newspaper reporters detailed at 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 our methods proved useless in the face of a
schizophrenic serial bomber seldom in the history of New York wrote The Associated Press has a case proved
such torment to police the Bombers rampage came at a time when science was transforming the way Americans thought
about the world around them Jonas Salk came up with the polio vaccine eradicating a disease that crippled
hundreds of thousands Bell Labs paved the way for modern electronics and all that came with it by inventing the
silicon transistor physicist Edward Teller created the hydrogen bomb scientific advancements however did not
elevate policing at least not in New York the NYPD's corrupt precinct captains and stubborn commanders
resisted new methods promoted by college-educated criminologist until a serial bomber forced them to adapt
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True Crime Garage /// The Mad Bomber

Brief Summary

A schizophrenic serial bomber challenged NYPD's outdated methods in New York.

Key points

The Paranoid Schizophrenic Bomber. A true story of chaos and fear in New York caused by a serial bomber.
NYPD's Struggle. The NYPD faced unprecedented challenges against a schizophrenic serial bomber.

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This is a true story about absolute madness.

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