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Signatures." she told us the fbi and the atf have some really amazing bomb experts who will recognize the signature. she told us, these guys are very good once they get a peek. joining us now is that former u.s. attorney from alabama who handled, among other cases, the eric rudolph bombing and the daughter-in-law of judge robert vance who was killed with a pipe bomb in 1989. joyce vance, thank you very much for being here and for letting me tell some of your family history. >> hi, rachel. >> you bring some specific expertise and experience to bear on this. when you told us bombs have signature...

That they had unexploded examples of his bombs. that's how they caught him. his whole saga, remember, started way back in 1972, when that bomb blew up in his house and injured his wife, right? because he was apparently mad about the repo guy from his car. in the investigation into that initial bombing, authorities discovered that he was frequently experimenting with bomb making. 1972, that's what they discovered about that base, when they looked into his bombs that injured his wife in 1972. fast forward 17 years later to 1989, when he declares he's going to terrorize people all over the south....

Across from his wife. the judge was killed instantly, his wife was seriously wounded. of course, the question you can't 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 anti-civil rights murder campaign at least. the initial news coverage of the murder of judge vance...

Blew up at the judge's house and killed their targets. but authorities were able to contain and defuse his other two bombs, from december, 1989. from the naacp office in jacksonville. and from the courthouse. and when the fbi and the atf and the police and the postal inspectors and all the rest of them were working to solve that case and catch that bomber, it was an atf agent, an old school, old guy atf agent who helped defuse one of these walter moody bombs in 1989. and he realized, you know what? this bomb rings a bell for me. atf officer recognized the way that bomb was built. one of those ...