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The Blount Family Bombing Part Two: The Teenager and the Businessman · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: Gone Call podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: Listener discretion is advised. Though the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
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  Speaker 1: and Firearms were keeping the specifics of the briefcase bomb
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  Speaker 1: that killed three on Thanksgiving Day nineteen eighty five at
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  Speaker 1: the Hilltop Mobile Home Park in Tarrant County, Texas for
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  Speaker 1: more than a decade. The incendiary device worked something like this.
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  Speaker 1: Hidden inside the briefcase was a Victor mousetrap. Opening the
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  Speaker 1: lid released it, making an electrical connection to two nine
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  Speaker 1: volt radio shack batteries. Current traveled through wiring to a
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  Speaker 1: model rocket igniter, which started a model rocket motor that
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  Speaker 1: in turn ignited smokeless powder, the type found in shotgun shells,
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  Speaker 1: packed into two eight inch lengths of capped galvanized pipe.
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  Speaker 1: Pressure built inside those pipes until they burst, sending fragments
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  Speaker 1: of metal outward at about twice the speed of a
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  Speaker 1: handgun bullet. At the same instant, a fireball shot out
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  Speaker 1: as the explosion ignited a small jar of gasoline. It
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  Speaker 1: all happened fast, in less than a second. One person
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  Speaker 1: later said it sounded like a cannon. The blast killed
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  Speaker 1: forty four year old Joe Blount, his fifteen year old
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  Speaker 1: daughter Angela, and his eighteen year old nephew, Michael. Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: agents with the fort Worth Office of the ATF, working
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  Speaker 1: with the Tarrant County Sheriff's office, began their investigation, looking
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  Speaker 1: at the people closest to the victims. They looked at
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  Speaker 1: Susan Blount, but they could find no reason for her
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  Speaker 1: to kill her husband, let alone her teenaged daughter and nephew.
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  Speaker 1: They looked at Joe's brother, Ray, Michael's father. Again, investigators
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  Speaker 1: found nothing tying him to the bombing, so they began
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  Speaker 1: considering a different possibility. Maybe they theorized the Blount family
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  Speaker 1: had never been the target. While there was no evidence
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  Speaker 1: that Joe or Susan Blount were involved in drugs, Hilltop
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  Speaker 1: itself was full of drug dealers. Agents and investigators focused
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  Speaker 1: on two of them, particularly Darren Irvin and Tim Tortella.
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  Speaker 1: Both sold metanthetamines. Either one of them seemed far more
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  Speaker 1: likely than the Blounts to have enemies willing to settle
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  Speaker 1: a score using a pipe bomb designed to kill and
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  Speaker 1: make sure the job got done, but they could find
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing connecting Irvin or Tortella to the crime. Before long,
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  Speaker 1: another name emerged at the trailer park, Mikey Huff. Huff
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  Speaker 1: was fifteen years old in nineteen eighty five and was
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  Speaker 1: a classmate of Angela Blount. Rumors were going around that
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  Speaker 1: Huff Uff was interested in Angela and that she had
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  Speaker 1: rejected him. Friends portrayed him as volatile. They said he
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  Speaker 1: used LSD, committed burglaries, and bragged about worshiping the Devil,
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  Speaker 1: a common claim of teenage rebels during the heyday of
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  Speaker 1: Satanic Panic. Then anonymous callers began telling federal agents something
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  Speaker 1: far more significant. According to them, Mikey Huff had bragged
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  Speaker 1: that he had built and delivered the bomb that killed
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  Speaker 1: the Blounts. The lead heated up when Huff's stepfather discovered
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  Speaker 1: pieces of a pipe bomb in the teenager's bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: noticed that two Victor mousetraps had disappeared from the family kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: The bomb that killed Angela, Joe and Michael had been
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  Speaker 1: triggered with that same kind of mousetrap. Huff appeared promising
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  Speaker 1: to investigators, at least for a while. Agents interviewed him extensively,
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  Speaker 1: and after doing so, concluded that he had not been
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  Speaker 1: involved in the Hilltop bombing, another lead was scratched off
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  Speaker 1: the list. The three people killed at the mobile home
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  Speaker 1: park represented the highest death toll in the United States
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  Speaker 1: from an intentional incendiary device incident during nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: Yet investigators couldn't identify the person responsible. The trail went cold,
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  Speaker 1: but months after a reward was offered. It couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been hotter. Forty year old Douglas Raymond Brown of Azel
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  Speaker 1: had been active in the community for years. He had
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  Speaker 1: run for mayor twice, though unsuccessfully each time. His first
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  Speaker 1: campaign had come during the nineteen seventies after longtime azelmayor
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  Speaker 1: James Brawley stepped down, a man Brown worked for at
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  Speaker 1: his business machine company. When he eventually opened his own business,
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  Speaker 1: Brown bought Brawley out. No matter whatever else was said
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  Speaker 1: about Douglas Brown, people who knew his work agreed he
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  Speaker 1: was extremely good at repairing business machines, everything from typewriters
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  Speaker 1: and copiers to word processors and computers. Some considered him
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  Speaker 1: the best around. Brown had repaired equipment in Azel schools
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  Speaker 1: for years and had even worked as a repairman for IBM.
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  Speaker 1: He was a member of Azel's Optimist and Bass clubs
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  Speaker 1: and regularly attended city council meetings. Some believed his interest
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  Speaker 1: in local politics suggested he may have had ambitions beyond
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  Speaker 1: his two unsuccessful campaigns for mayor. For a time, Brown
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  Speaker 1: also bought firearms at garage sales and gun shows, then
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  Speaker 1: resold them through his business or at other gun shows.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have a criminal record, and in fact, even
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  Speaker 1: Terrant County Sheriff Don Carpenter knew him. The lawman thought
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  Speaker 1: Brown was friendly and likable, echoing that sentiment, his stepfather
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  Speaker 1: called him quiet and pleasant. But during nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: for reasons that are unclear, Douglas Raymond Brown began to change.
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  Speaker 1: He was drinking more and withdrawing from people. There had
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  Speaker 1: been signs in the past. Someone who dealt with Brown
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  Speaker 1: through Azel Schools recalled that he could sometimes become a
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  Speaker 1: rational over business matters, so much apparently the district eventually
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  Speaker 1: stopped using him. Brown had also become angry with the
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  Speaker 1: city government after Azel officials refused a zoning change he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: His response was threatening to open a topless bar on
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  Speaker 1: property he owned. None of those things connected the man
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  Speaker 1: to the three deaths at Hilltop Mobile Home Park. What
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  Speaker 1: happened next however, caught the attention of federal investigators. In
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  Speaker 1: late January nineteen eighty six, ATF agents began looking into
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  Speaker 1: Douglas Brown in connection with an alleged firearms violation. On
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  Speaker 1: March fifth, nineteen eighty six, an undercover federal agent met
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  Speaker 1: him at Buffy's Restaurant in Asol, where he offered to
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  Speaker 1: make and sell her an explosive device, a briefcase bomb.
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  Speaker 1: Eight days later, on March thirteenth, the two met again,
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  Speaker 1: this time at Ridge Marmall in Fort Worth. Brown arrived
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  Speaker 1: with a black briefcase. He not only gave the undercover
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  Speaker 1: agent the device, he explained its components and instructed her
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  Speaker 1: how to arm and disarm it. Inside the briefcase was
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  Speaker 1: a white putty like material that Brown described as a
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  Speaker 1: homemade plastic explosive he called composition M. It was wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in a green substance he said was napalm. The briefcase
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  Speaker 1: also contained electronic circuitry and a place to attach the
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  Speaker 1: blasting cap that would detonate the device. An ATF laboratory
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  Speaker 1: chemist determined that the combination was definitely capable of producing
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  Speaker 1: an explosion. After spending months trying to determine who could
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  Speaker 1: have built the device left on the steps of the
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  Speaker 1: Blount home. Douglas Raymond Brown suddenly presented an extraordinary possibility
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  Speaker 1: for federal agents and county investigators. Here was a man
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  Speaker 1: from Azel, a town just up the road from the
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  Speaker 1: Hilltop Mobile Home Park, and he'd made a briefcase bomb,
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  Speaker 1: the very thing that had killed Joe Blount, Angela Blount,
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  Speaker 1: and Michael Columbus. At approximately one thirty pm on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: March twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six, ATF agents and Tarrant
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies moved in and arrested Douglas Brown at
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  Speaker 1: Ridgemar Mall. He didn't resist. Agent in charge Lou Iliano
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  Speaker 1: refused to talk about how Brown had come to their attention,
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  Speaker 1: but the Azel Police Department had no such qualms. For
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  Speaker 1: approximately five months, the department had him under surveillance as
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  Speaker 1: part of a drug trafficking investigation. Police had received a
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  Speaker 1: tip that guns and drugs were being exchanged through Brown's
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  Speaker 1: business machine company. Azel Police Chief R. David Wilhelm was
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  Speaker 1: preparing to arrest the man himself until learning the ATF
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  Speaker 1: was simultaneously conducting an undercover investigation into his firearms activity,
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  Speaker 1: illegally selling automatic weapons and silencers. When Chief Wilhelm informed
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  Speaker 1: federal authorities of his plans, they asked him to hold off.
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  Speaker 1: The Azel police agreed. After the arrest of Douglas Raymond Brown,
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  Speaker 1: charged with building and delivering a briefcase bomb to an
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  Speaker 1: undercover ATF agent, investigators searched his business at three four
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  Speaker 1: six Northwest Parkway Street in the heart of Azel. There
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  Speaker 1: they found chemicals, hand grenade casings, an old World War
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  Speaker 1: II era grenade, and other materials that could be used
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  Speaker 1: to construct explosive devices. Only four months had passed since
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  Speaker 1: someone left a briefcase bomb outside the Blount home, but
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  Speaker 1: federal agents were careful about what they said publicly. The
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  Speaker 1: device that killed the Blounts and the one Brown made
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  Speaker 1: resembled one another, sure, but it didn't mean the man
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  Speaker 1: had murdered three people just a few miles down the
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  Speaker 1: road from him. Authorities continually emphasized that Brown hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: implicated in the Hilltop bombing. On Friday, March twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: following a two hour hearing before US Magistrate Alex McGlinchey,
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  Speaker 1: Brown was released from the Tarrant County jail. On ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bail. At the hearing, he pleaded not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: A federal grand jury subsequently returned a three count indictment
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  Speaker 1: against Brown involving possession of unregistered incendiary devices, including a
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  Speaker 1: briefcase bomb and a pipe bomb. Then, in June nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty six, he changed his plea after reaching an agreement
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  Speaker 1: with prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to two of the three
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  Speaker 1: counts and was sentenced to four years in prison that
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't going anywhere atf agents continued to seek a
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  Speaker 1: connection between Douglas Brown and the murders at Hilltop, but
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  Speaker 1: they never did. Nearly a year after his arrest, a
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  Speaker 1: case out of Bowie came along. Thirty six year old
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  Speaker 1: John Weldon Yowl was arrested in August nineteen eighty six.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities described the eight month operation that led to the
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  Speaker 1: arrest of Yowl and his brother as the largest drug
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  Speaker 1: raid ever conducted in North Texas. Nearly four and a
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  Speaker 1: half million dollars worth of amphetamines, chemicals, lab equipment, and
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  Speaker 1: cash were found, not to mention an arsenal. Police seized pistols, rifles, shotguns, silencers,
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  Speaker 1: machine guns, smoke grenades, motion detectors and explosive devices. The
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  Speaker 1: Yowl brothers were indicted the following month in Montegue County
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  Speaker 1: on charges of manufacturing a co controlled substance. Then, in
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen eighty seven, John Yowl was indicted on another
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  Speaker 1: seventeen counts involving possession of illegal weapons. Buried among everything
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  Speaker 1: seized during the raid were items that peaked the interest
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  Speaker 1: of ATF agents still trying to solve the Blount family bombing,
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  Speaker 1: including grenades, gunpowder, electronic bomb making equipment, and a roll
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  Speaker 1: of gray and white seven strand copper wire. According to
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  Speaker 1: an ATF report, that wire was similar to wiring used
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  Speaker 1: in the bomb that killed Joe, Angela and Michael. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: investigators had found a man with explosives, bomb making materials,
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  Speaker 1: and something bearing a similarity to a component of the
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  Speaker 1: Hilltop device, and once again the lead went nowhere. Agents
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  Speaker 1: ultimately eliminated John Weldon Yowl as a suspect. After that,
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  Speaker 1: the Blount family bombing investigation truly went cold. A decade
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  Speaker 1: passed with virtually nothing new. November twenty eighth, nineteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: marked ten years since the briefcase exploded for Susan Blount
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  Speaker 1: and Michael Columbus's mother, Lynn Blount write the questions were
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  Speaker 1: the same as they had been on Thanksgiving Night nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five. Who and why. Robert Blount had survived the
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  Speaker 1: blast but had also undergone a series of skin grafts
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  Speaker 1: for years after, But for him, talking about it was
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  Speaker 1: the hardest part. It took him nine years to even
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  Speaker 1: open up to his mother. Thanksgiving itself changed for the family.
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  Speaker 1: Susan tried not to spend the holiday the same way
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  Speaker 1: each year. Changing the routine seemed to be the only
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  Speaker 1: way to make it something other than the anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the day Joe, Angela and Michael were killed. Every year,
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  Speaker 1: Lynn Blount Wright contacted the fort Worth ATF office asking
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  Speaker 1: about the investigation into her son's murder, but after a decade,
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  Speaker 1: the agency still had no suspect, not even a lead.
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  Speaker 1: ATF agent Mike Russell had remained with the case since
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night nineteen eighty five. Other investigators who had originally
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  Speaker 1: worked it had already retired. Of all the fatal bombings
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  Speaker 1: Russell had encountered since joining the fort Worth ATF office
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one, the bombing at Hilltop was the
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  Speaker 1: only one that remained unsolved. He had considered every possible angle, revenge,
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  Speaker 1: murder for hire, and countless other possibilities. By nineteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: Agent Russell was still leaning toward the explanation investigators had
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  Speaker 1: considered almost from the beginning someone had put the bomb
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  Speaker 1: outside the wrong home. In nineteen ninety six, investigators decided
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  Speaker 1: to start over quietly. Federal, state, and local authorities assembled
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  Speaker 1: a new task force. While Agent Russell stepped away from
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  Speaker 1: the case. Atf Special Agent Judith Sellers took over alongside
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Jim Morgan of the Texas Department of Public Safeties
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  Speaker 1: Special Crimes Unit and Charles Johnson, an investigator with the
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  Speaker 1: Tarrant County District Attorney's Office. They approached the Blount family
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  Speaker 1: bombing as they would any other cold case. Everything was
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  Speaker 1: examined again, every old lead was re explored, every person
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  Speaker 1: of interest scrutinized again, and all witnesses reinterviewed. In the
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  Speaker 1: fall of nineteen ninety six, the newly assembled task force
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  Speaker 1: took an unusual step. On Friday, November fifteenth, agents and
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  Speaker 1: investigators gathered reporters and television cameras at a gun range
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  Speaker 1: in southeast Dallas. At one end of the range sat
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  Speaker 1: a dark brown briefcase. Inside was a replica of the
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  Speaker 1: device that had exploded in Angela Blount's lap almost eleven
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  Speaker 1: years earlier. The task force hoped that showing the public
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  Speaker 1: what the bomb could do might shake loose a memory,
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  Speaker 1: or finally convince someone who knew something to come forward.
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  Speaker 1: They believed there was a good chance more than one
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  Speaker 1: person knew something about it. When they detonated the replica,
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  Speaker 1: and after an orange flash, pieces of the briefcase flew
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  Speaker 1: as far as sixty feet. Even relatively low powered explosives
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  Speaker 1: can propel fragments at the speed of a bullet, if
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  Speaker 1: not faster, with temperatures ranging from one thousand to three
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  Speaker 1: thousand degrees fahrenheit. The renewed investigation received national attention when
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  Speaker 1: the Blunt family bombing was featured on America's Most Wanted
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  Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars reward was offered. Tips poured in,
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  Speaker 1: many of them pointed the task force back toward a
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  Speaker 1: familiar name, Mikey Huff. Huff was only fifteen years old
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  Speaker 1: when the Blounce trailer exploded. He was Angela's classmate and
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  Speaker 1: also lived at Hilltop During the original investigation, authorities had
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  Speaker 1: heard the rumors surrounding him that Angela had rejected his advances,
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  Speaker 1: that he had bragged about making and placing the device
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  Speaker 1: on the Blounce steps, that his stepfather had discovered pipe
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  Speaker 1: bomb components in his bedroom, and that Victor mouse traps
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  Speaker 1: like the one used to trigger the Blount bomb had
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  Speaker 1: disappeared from his home. Agents investigated Huff extensively in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five and concluded he was not involved. More than
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  Speaker 1: a decade later, Fresh Eyes weren't willing to simply accept
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  Speaker 1: that conclusion. Once again questioned Huff repeatedly, he denied any involvement.
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  Speaker 1: By nineteen ninety seven, the task Force considered Mikey Huff
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  Speaker 1: a prime suspect. They tapped his phone and brought in
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  Speaker 1: criminal profiling experts from the FBI. Huff's friends were called
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  Speaker 1: before a grand jury. One woman recalled him talking about
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  Speaker 1: a friend who knew how to make homemade bombs and
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  Speaker 1: remembered him referring to the explosion that destroyed the Blount home.
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  Speaker 1: The scrutiny became so intense that Huff believed his arrest
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  Speaker 1: was imminent. Investigators had even told him he should spend
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  Speaker 1: time with his children because he might not be seeing
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  Speaker 1: them for a while. But the same problem agents encountered
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  Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty five was still there. Suspicion, anecdotes,
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  Speaker 1: and rumors were all they had. There was no hard evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Terrant County Prosecutor Mike Parrish came to see the teenage
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  Speaker 1: version of Huff somewhat differently than those old reports might
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  Speaker 1: have suggested. As a kid, Huff wanted people to think
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  Speaker 1: he was dangerous. He cultivated that image, even going so
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  Speaker 1: far as to claim he was a devil worshiper, But
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  Speaker 1: acting like a teenage tough guy didn't make him a murderer.
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  Speaker 1: After listening to witnesses and prosecutors, the grand jury did
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  Speaker 1: not indict Mikey Huff. Just like agents during the initial investigation,
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  Speaker 1: the new task force was left waiting for something it
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  Speaker 1: could not manufacture, a break, and in the form of
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  Speaker 1: a telephone call. It finally came in mid nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 1: when someone finally called with information that pointed investigators in
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  Speaker 1: a brand new direction. The Blount family bombing had become
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  Speaker 1: the longest running active investigation in ATF history. The tip
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  Speaker 1: implicated someone who had never come across their radar. When
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  Speaker 1: agents found one of this man's old friends, he told
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  Speaker 1: them something extraordinary. He said he had been with the
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  Speaker 1: suspect around the time of the bombing. He'd seen the
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  Speaker 1: briefcase in the suspect's hands. The task force moved quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutor Mike Parrish spent approximately two months presenting evidence to
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  Speaker 1: a Terrant County grand jury. On December fourth, nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 1: authorities announced that they expected a capital murder indictment, but
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't publicly identify the suspect before the grand jury acted.
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  Speaker 1: After twelve years of investigating relatives, neighbors, drug dealers, a businessman,
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  Speaker 1: bomb makers, and a teenage classmate of Angela Blount, authorities
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  Speaker 1: believed they finally had someone who could connect a person
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  Speaker 1: directly to the briefcase bomb It was an incredible reversal
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  Speaker 1: in a case that just months before had seemed almost
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  Speaker 1: impossible to solve. The break was almost too good to
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  Speaker 1: be true. Not long after telling Susan Blount and Lynn
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  Speaker 1: Blount right, law enforcement delivered on its promise and an
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  Speaker 1: arrest was made. That's next time on Gone Cold Texas
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