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The fbi seems to have not believed that was it. the fbi still has up a web page about this case. they say that they later decided once they got working into this case that all the racial elements of the story may have been red herrings. that the motivation for walter moody terrorizing and killing people in his bombing campaign in 1989 was all about his obsession over his old court case, and the fbi came to conclude that he only hit civil rights targets to try to throw investigators off his trail. to make them think he was some other kind of person motivated by some other means. but, you know, ...

Close to that nightmare episode in 1989, what they did have was his work product. the thing that ended up being most important about that case and that man and what ended what he was doing to our country is 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'...

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 ...

Sir, i have to tell you, there's a problem. they've been telling him in private there's a security issue. he does not care. so now they're telling him in big, bold letters in the newspaper. in this case, this is them telling him, hey, sir, you've got a little spinach in your teeth. and he's like, oh, yeah? get me a poppy seed bagel, see if i can get some of that stuck in there too. sir, you have four pieces of charmin on your shoe. cool, can we get some on the other shoe? they've been warning this is a security warning. he's like, whatever. i mean, when you are warned that add ve sar adversari...

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 june of 1989, the federal appeals court, where he lived, in his region of the country, they ultimately affirmed that old conviction from 1972, and said yeah, this is not going to be overturned. there was a three-judge panel. he ap...