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But then his wife came across the package and his wife opened it in their home. and that is when the bomb detonated and his wife was injured by the bomb. the womans husband, the man who apparently made the bomb, was named walter moody. he was arrested in that case in 1972. he was ultimately convicted of possessing explosives, and on the basis of that conviction, he did three years in federal prison. mr. moody then apparently became absolutely obsessed with what he believed to be the injustice of...

He remembered the bomb, he remembered the case it came from and he remembered the guys name who had made it and had gone to prison for it. thats how they got him. they catch these guys. thats how they do it. were good at this as a country. today, police and federal authorities are in the possession of five unexploded bombs that were sent to 88-year-old activist, philanthropist, investor george soros. and former president barack obama, and former attorney general eric holder. we know another was ...

They might change a little bit, but will use a lot of the same tools in the same way of putting a basic pipe bomb together. so i should say we have a full team in birmingham that worked on the rudolph case, and all of the prosecutors on that team, myself included, we relied heavily on the expertise of the agents who were so good at understanding bomb components and using that knowledge to help identify the bomber. >> when it came to that eric rudolph case, was there any important lead in that ca...

Other packages. so the list of people were talking about is the greatest list hits of people who the president has been targeting by name and with specific invective over the last year or so in terms of his political appearances and particularly his rallies. how does that factor in when it comes to pursuing this as a law enforcement matter? i was struck by the fact that in the walter moody case, there seemed to be a lot of strong evidence about the motive, but in the end, it all felt very much l...

Been following this case for so many decades, they essentially settled on the motive issue just not being clear. maybe race was a red herring like the fbi concluded. maybe race was the prime motivator, like it looks like on the surface. maybe it was a mixture. when moodys effort to get his old conviction was rejected, theres been indication that he was mad at civil rights cases, because civil rights cases were getting prosecuted years after those crimes had taken place, because civil rights case...

His wife on a fictional, mysterious new suspect who he had invented. prosecutors say he was so obsessed with this plot and with getting cleared of this case, that he even started paying people off to serve as fake witnesses for this fake story he had invented to try to sell to authorities, to get his conviction overturned. he was obsessed. he worked on it for years. it did not work. but he pressed at it at every level of the legal system. he pressed it all the way through the court system. by ju...

The election is over. so, multiple civil rights and voting rights groups challenged the state, sued the state for allowing those absentee ballot rejections. turns out the county with the highest rejection rate is gwinett county. they said, quote, "its more than three times the average rejection rate than all of the counties in georgia. its higher than all other atlanta metro area counties." last week the aclu in georgia filed a suit against gwinett county and had one of those aclu lawyers who br...

Detonated and his wife was injured by the bomb. the womans husband, the man who apparently made the bomb, was named walter moody. he was arrested in that case in 1972. he was ultimately convicted of possessing explosives, and on the basis of that conviction, he did three years in federal prison. mr. moody then apparently became absolutely obsessed with what he believed to be the injustice of. after he did his three years in the federal penitentiary, he got out and concocted a whole elaborate sch...

Across from his wife. the judge was killed instantly, his wife was seriously wounded. of course, the question you cant help but ask in a circumstance like this is, why? what were the -- why did this guy do it? what are the intricacies of the motive here? this was multiple bombs, right? there were threats and it was a progression, and the pattern here, multiple naacp offices, some of the other messaging, certainly made it seem at the time like this was a racist murder campaign, right? this was an...

Turns out his motives and his intentions are sort of vaguely discernible if you squinlt at the right angle. but what arises from that story, now that hes dead and its over and we know everything we can know about it, is the fact that he was extreme and cruel and twisted enough to do it. thats what arises as the only clear truth. i mean, had they known more about the motive, would that have helped them solve the crime? ed that hey understood more about what was just a red herring. what they did h...