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Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: I loved Atlanta, always knew I'd probably move here. And
Speaker 4: the community was strong, men and women, black and white,
Speaker 4: and transgender, and it was always the dream abov and
Speaker 4: made to have a community nightclub that was for everyone.
Speaker 1: They called it the other Side Lounge. It was known
Speaker 1: as a lesbian bar, but as Dana Ford just said,
Speaker 1: it was a bar for.
Speaker 5: Anyone, for everyone.
Speaker 1: Inside outside other Side people would wander in, some of
Speaker 1: them I didn't even know Ellen Degenerous, I guess at
Speaker 1: sometimes Steve Martin.
Speaker 4: It was a big spot. A lot of things were happening.
Speaker 1: As you know now, back at the beginning of ninety seven,
Speaker 1: I'm not even born yet. If the Sandy Springs abortion
Speaker 1: clinic hadn't been bombed, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't exist.
Speaker 1: I've been picking at these threads for as long as
Speaker 1: I can remember, and this podcast is my reckoning, my
Speaker 1: coming to terms with the devil that made me. But
Speaker 1: back in ninety seven, Dana Ford and her partner Beverly
Speaker 1: had planted a pretty original flag with the other Side Lounge.
Speaker 1: It was their personal love letter to the city of Atlanta,
Speaker 1: a safe haven for free expression. But there's two sides
Speaker 1: to that coin, and the truth is a place like that,
Speaker 1: it's a refuge for lots of people, but for others,
Speaker 1: it's a target.
Speaker 5: Episode three, Army of God.
Speaker 4: You know, back then, you still had to congregate together.
Speaker 4: You know, you still had to be careful when you
Speaker 4: walk the streets. And the politics were changing, and when
Speaker 4: they were trying to get don asks, don't tell and
Speaker 4: get people who were able to serve in the military,
Speaker 4: and it was across the board looking for rights. You know,
Speaker 4: we'd have people vandalize our property, had eggs thrown at me,
Speaker 4: and bobblestone at me, and my car keyed and our
Speaker 4: locks super glued, and people would come through the parking
Speaker 4: lot and vandalize the cars or they'd and one time
Speaker 4: there was a homicide outline, like a dead body on
Speaker 4: our stoop. We'd get calls where you know, they're threatening
Speaker 4: rape or harm or assaults, and you know, you had
Speaker 4: to be careful and you had to be aware, and
Speaker 4: the community needed to stick together. It was a hard
Speaker 4: fought period to get to where we got with gay
Speaker 4: marriage and these small little victories. But it starts at
Speaker 4: the community level. And that's why Bev and I were
Speaker 4: active and active in human rights and people who knew
Speaker 4: who we were downtown and that was part of our job.
Speaker 4: We weren't just slinging drinks and making money. We wanted
Speaker 4: to make a change.
Speaker 1: Most people are creatures of habit. They don't like change,
Speaker 1: and some folks they hated.
Speaker 6: Reported by Brian Williams.
Speaker 3: Good Evening, the city of Atlanta might have a big
Speaker 3: problem on its hands again.
Speaker 1: It's the night of February twenty first, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Barely a month has passed since the bombing at the
Speaker 1: Sandy Springs abortion clinic, and still no leads. But trouble
Speaker 1: waits for no one, and with the echoes of this
Speaker 1: blasts still lingering in the air.
Speaker 5: Another bomb goes off in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Suddenly Atlanta's mayor thinks his city might be in the
Speaker 4: sights of what he calls a deranged killer.
Speaker 5: Take me through.
Speaker 1: When you first heard news of the bomb, you didn't
Speaker 1: think it was a bomb, did you?
Speaker 4: I knew something was detonated as my manager, I said,
Speaker 4: what is it? You said, something blew up? Is it
Speaker 4: like an M eighty?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 4: What? What do you mean blew up? He goes, I
Speaker 4: have no idea. I went eighty miles an hour down
Speaker 4: p Stree Hills Avenue and was at the club in
Speaker 4: a matter of minutes. I pulled up in the front
Speaker 4: and then I went inside just to make an assessment
Speaker 4: of what had happened. I saw about four or five
Speaker 4: flashlights flicking around in the bushes on the back of
Speaker 4: the building, about two or three on the side. Knowing
Speaker 4: its police officers, I walk in. There was a person
Speaker 4: sitting on a bar stool being treated by a medic,
Speaker 4: and they had a wound on their back. So I thought, okay,
Speaker 4: that person obviously is well enough to be sitting on
Speaker 4: a stool, and I kept going going, and I saw
Speaker 4: as soon as I turned the corner, basically someone bleeding
Speaker 4: out on the floor and people frantically working on them.
Speaker 4: And then I saw a woman covered in blood on
Speaker 4: the phone. She was taking orders, I mean, somebody was
Speaker 4: explaining to her what she needed to do. And I
Speaker 4: kept walking and the DJ was still in the booth,
Speaker 4: the bartender was still behind the small bar, and so
Speaker 4: I went out the patio door and assessed what was
Speaker 4: going on. And that's when the tin roof that we
Speaker 4: had was just shredded, and everything on an elevated deck
Speaker 4: that we had was told leave blown around in speakers
Speaker 4: so I could tell it was something huge, something significant.
Speaker 4: And then there was this fine particular dust on the floor,
Speaker 4: which now I understand probably came from the rock wall,
Speaker 4: but it blew all the way in like a cloud.
Speaker 4: And there was a single young cop standing there kind
Speaker 4: of dazed, and I said, so, what do you think,
Speaker 4: and he said, I think it's a bomb.
Speaker 1: After the twin bombs at the Sandy Springs Clinic, law
Speaker 1: enforcement changed their approach to these situations. Veteran GBI agent
Speaker 1: Charles Stone was early on the scene.
Speaker 8: We had had training sessions then to APD and beat
Speaker 8: offshers and detectives saying, if you get a call of
Speaker 8: an explosion or anything like that, be on your page
Speaker 8: and q's and look for damned secondary devices. Well they
Speaker 8: did the very right thing. They combed the parking lot
Speaker 8: and found.
Speaker 1: The once again not one bomb, but two, which meant
Speaker 1: the threat was not over. A second device was just
Speaker 1: sitting there waiting to explode, and it could happen any minute,
Speaker 1: any second, with dozens of innocent people in its path,
Speaker 1: and nobody knew how much time they had.
Speaker 4: And I asked for the officer on duty. I said,
Speaker 4: what do we need to do and she said, we
Speaker 4: think we found a second device. And that second device
Speaker 4: was about twenty five feet or so from the door,
Speaker 4: and she said, well, we need to get the people
Speaker 4: out of there. I said, how are we going to
Speaker 4: do that? She said, they can't run and they can't
Speaker 4: know that's there. So I went inside and kind of
Speaker 4: gathered everybody together. I changed my disposition so they wouldn't
Speaker 4: be frightened. I said, well, you know, guys, we got
Speaker 4: to get the head out of here, kind of like that,
Speaker 4: and people were trying to down their drinks. I said, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: nont grown, I'm just take them with you, and they
Speaker 4: hit them under their coats. I well, that's a good idea,
Speaker 4: you know, anything to kind of keep them calm. I
Speaker 4: do know, though, my bartender, when I said just shut
Speaker 4: the registers and walk away, they looked at me because
Speaker 4: they know I'd never leave money in the register. And
Speaker 4: I calmed them down and said, it's cops. They're not
Speaker 4: going to steal it. They just leave it there. None
Speaker 4: of them knew that there was a bomb, none of them,
Speaker 4: and I knew it was getting close. In my gut
Speaker 4: because of the abortion clinic, I knew and my mind
Speaker 4: a clock had started, and that's why I said, we've
Speaker 4: got to get these.
Speaker 5: People out of here.
Speaker 9: They called in the bomb squad with the robot, and
Speaker 9: the robot went to diffuse it.
Speaker 1: US Attorney Ken Alexander, who was alreadinvestigating the two other
Speaker 1: Atlanta bombings, was also in the parking lot.
Speaker 9: You can actually diffuse bombs by shooting these high powered
Speaker 9: water guns into them, and as they did it, the
Speaker 9: bomb dropped on the pavement and everybody thought it was
Speaker 9: going to explode, and he didn't. Then they started to
Speaker 9: shoot it. The bomb ended up exploding, and I distinctly
Speaker 9: remember or the valet sign. It was riddled with what
Speaker 9: looked like bullets, but as with Sandy Springs, remarkably nobody
Speaker 9: was killed.
Speaker 6: A police robot shot it with a stream of water
Speaker 6: about two this morning and it exploded. Authorities were investigating
Speaker 6: another bombing at the same club when they found the backpack.
Speaker 9: And it was really after that bomb when we took
Speaker 9: a look forensically at the components of the bomb started
Speaker 9: to compare that there was really little doubt that we
Speaker 9: were dealing with the same bomber.
Speaker 5: We were dealing with the serial bomber.
Speaker 6: The bomb that went off in Atlanta's Centennial Park last
Speaker 6: July also was placed in a backpack. Nails were used
Speaker 6: in that bomb, as well as in the second of
Speaker 6: two bombs that exploded last month at an Atlanta clinic
Speaker 6: where abortions are performed.
Speaker 1: God law enforcement was now clearly dealing with a serial bomber.
Speaker 1: The theories and suspicions from Sandy Springs were finding purchase
Speaker 1: with this new evidence. But back in ninety seven, the
Speaker 1: term serial bomber wasn't a very well known thing. Even
Speaker 1: the forensic science surrounding a serial bomber was very much
Speaker 1: just getting started. The information gathering, the safety protocols, the
Speaker 1: communication protocols, the technology, the language, and how it seeped
Speaker 1: into the culture. These things were just figuring themselves out.
Speaker 1: Add to the fact that there were five massive bureaucratic
Speaker 1: agencies involved, and this was a lot for anyone to manage.
Speaker 1: But new evidence would begin to fit this story into
Speaker 1: a bigger picture, one with a dark history and an
Speaker 1: even darker future.
Speaker 10: The bombings and sandy springs in Midtown were carried out
Speaker 10: by units of the Army of God. The aboration was
Speaker 10: the target of the first device. The murder of three
Speaker 10: point five million children every year will not be tolerated.
Speaker 10: Those who participate in any way in the murder of
Speaker 10: children may be targeted for attack. The attack therefore serves
Speaker 10: as a warning anyone in or around facilities that murdered
Speaker 10: children may become victims of retribution.
Speaker 1: A very specific point of view was claiming responsibility now
Speaker 1: and sending handwritten letters to news outlets and federal authorities.
Speaker 1: They called themselves the Army of God. The letters were
Speaker 1: riddled with spelling and grammar errors, but they were deadly
Speaker 1: serious and for as unprofessionals. The letter may have read
Speaker 1: to most in the media. It was designed to put
Speaker 1: the fear of God in you, and that's exactly what
Speaker 1: it did.
Speaker 10: The second device was aimed at agents of the so
Speaker 10: called federal government ieatf FBI, marshals, etc. We declare and
Speaker 10: will wage total war on the ungodly communist regime in
Speaker 10: New York and your legislative bureaucratic lackeys in Washington. It
Speaker 10: is you who are responsible and preside over the murder
Speaker 10: of children and issue the policy of ungodly perversion that's
Speaker 10: destroying our people. We will target all facilities and personnel
Speaker 10: of the federal government. The attack in Midtown was aimed
Speaker 10: at the Sodomite bar. The other side, we will target Sodomites,
Speaker 10: their organizations, and all those who push their agenda in
Speaker 10: the future, where innocent people may become the primary casualties.
Speaker 10: And warning phone call will be placed to one of
Speaker 10: the news bureaus or nine to one one generally, a
Speaker 10: forty minute warning will be given. To confirm the authenticity
Speaker 10: of the warning, a code will be given with the
Speaker 10: warning statement. The code for our unit is four to
Speaker 10: one nine nine three, Death to the New World Order.
Speaker 9: The analyst said, first, who I was writing this is
Speaker 9: really angry, just because the way they were bearing down
Speaker 9: that was written by a bomber. That's kind of a
Speaker 9: given they're gonna be an angry person. But second they
Speaker 9: said they were trying to disguise the writing. The thing
Speaker 9: that jumped out at everybody though, which was chilling, was
Speaker 9: the letters were signed off with the code, which was
Speaker 9: the date of Waco.
Speaker 1: Waco, Texas April nineteenth, nineteen ninety three. This was the
Speaker 1: day when state and federal authorities laid siege to a
Speaker 1: religious compound led by cult leader David Koresh. He and
Speaker 1: his followers had been a standoff with law enforcement for
Speaker 1: nearly two months.
Speaker 9: It was chilling to see that date, and it was
Speaker 9: also a major clue that whoever did this bombing wasn't
Speaker 9: necessarily driven by abortion. But there was something deeper with
Speaker 9: this anti government bent relating to Waco and perhaps Ruby Ridge.
Speaker 1: Remember this date April nineteenth. We'll dig into that later,
Speaker 1: but it was here in this moment that the authorities
Speaker 1: first picked up on a deeply menacing and unexpected scent,
Speaker 1: one that connected to a very dark piece of American history.
Speaker 1: But they still didn't have any idea who was actually
Speaker 1: planting the bombs.
Speaker 9: So our focus started going in that direction a bit
Speaker 9: more as we decided this might be somebody really trying
Speaker 9: to almost throw us off track by bombing a largely
Speaker 9: gained lesbian nightclub and bombing an abortion clinic, because what's
Speaker 9: really afoot here is somebody who's very much against the government,
Speaker 9: world or that sort of thing, and the same sort
Speaker 9: of things that drove a lot of people who used
Speaker 9: Waco as their personal wake up call to a call
Speaker 9: to arms against the US.
Speaker 6: Sour's as close to the investigation tell NBC News there
Speaker 6: are differences in those five bombs too. Natils used for
Speaker 6: shrapnel were longer than time and the backpack was described
Speaker 6: as ready, you.
Speaker 4: Know, we have kids. So we had the car seats
Speaker 4: in the back, and the shrapnel they were like bullets.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just pierced everything I know. On the patio.
Speaker 4: It literally sliced like a butter knife through a full
Speaker 4: section of tin roof that was probably about twenty feet long,
Speaker 4: and so it was embedded in the trunk and there
Speaker 4: was glass shattered all through the car seats and it's
Speaker 4: a little jarring to see that when they're handing your
Speaker 4: baby seats back then, apologizing that they couldn't get all
Speaker 4: the glass out of.
Speaker 1: It, so the children's car seats and Dana and Bev's
Speaker 1: car were riddled with shrapnel. The nursery at Sandy Springs,
Speaker 1: the actual crib where Rob Saddler's twin toddlers napped, was destroyed,
Speaker 1: the ceiling collapsing on top of it, crushing it. This
Speaker 1: bomber is leaving quite a trail of collateral damage, not
Speaker 1: to mention the emotional trauma.
Speaker 4: The death threats that we subsequently received for years threatened
Speaker 4: the lives of our kids. Only certain people could touch
Speaker 4: the mail. We had to write down who handled it.
Speaker 4: We had to put it in special envelopes, We had
Speaker 4: to call the FBI, and this went on for years.
Speaker 1: For a while, all of Dana and Bev's mail was
Speaker 1: passed on to the FBI for filtering. To this day,
Speaker 1: Dana doesn't know the exact contents of this hate mail,
Speaker 1: but she knew that they contained threats to both the
Speaker 1: club and her family. This is another example of one
Speaker 1: of those protocol things law enforcement hadn't.
Speaker 5: Quite figured out yet. So what was the solution? A
Speaker 5: family couldn't open their own mail for three years?
Speaker 4: The last one we received was two thousand and one.
Speaker 4: You know the FBI. The reassurance they gave us was
Speaker 4: if they really want to hurt you, they're not going
Speaker 4: to warn you about it, so you don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about the ones that threaten you. It's like that's
Speaker 4: not reassuring when you're staring at your children at the
Speaker 4: dinner table, thinking, well, today I received a threat that
Speaker 4: someone's going to kill you, and there's not much I
Speaker 4: can do about it. It was a struggle after the bombing,
Speaker 4: with all the stress we were under. I would get sick,
Speaker 4: literally get sick going in and you had to hide it.
Speaker 4: You can't let people know that you're having anxiety attacks
Speaker 4: and you're going into the restroom and vomiting. And I
Speaker 4: know it sounds horrible, but that's part of what the
Speaker 4: stress was. And I have to tell you. After I
Speaker 4: got that last death threat, I turned to Bev and
Speaker 4: I said I'm done. We closed in two thousand and one.
Speaker 5: And that wasn't the only fallout.
Speaker 4: Bev and I don't really have conversations. We broke up
Speaker 4: about a year ago, and the bombing had its effects.
Speaker 4: It wiped out our savings, and you know, we have
Speaker 4: children approaching high school, trying to get them into college.
Speaker 4: Had an opportunity to work in Florida. You know, even
Speaker 4: a few months before we broke up, she said something
Speaker 4: about the bombing and what she recalls as my response
Speaker 4: to it. So I don't think it ever left her.
Speaker 4: I don't think she ever resolved it.
Speaker 1: Some consequences are unintentional, unanticipated, They aren't engineered to happen
Speaker 1: by design. Others are more purposeful, blatant, even deliberate.
Speaker 7: I never knew I could have been so outspoken about something.
Speaker 7: When I first got the job. It was exactly that
Speaker 7: I looked in the newspaper doctor's office blah blah blah,
Speaker 7: said I would never work in the doctor's office, little
Speaker 7: one behold. A couple of months after we got married,
Speaker 7: I went and had an interview and she asked me
Speaker 7: what was my view and abortion. I said, I'm okay
Speaker 7: with it.
Speaker 1: Emily Lyons was thirty seven years old when she answered
Speaker 1: the job posting for the new Woman All Women Healthcare Center,
Speaker 1: an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 7: The first day I went, there was a protester out
Speaker 7: on the curb of the street, and you know, He
Speaker 7: was the one that was there all the time, mostly blind.
Speaker 7: He couldn't tell if you were male or female. But
Speaker 7: everybody he just said, don't kill your baby. But he
Speaker 7: was a fanatic about it, and that first time I
Speaker 7: was like, what is that. I had no clue, but
Speaker 7: the mental the verbal abuse they gave those women was horrible.
Speaker 7: Then there was David Lackey, used to be the former
Speaker 7: head of Operation Rescue in town. One day to work,
Speaker 7: I was getting out of the car and he says,
Speaker 7: what do you do with your blood money? Did you
Speaker 7: buy that car with your blood money? He was vicious.
Speaker 7: Out of all the people that usually came to the
Speaker 7: clinic to protest, he was the one that could have
Speaker 7: been the biggest trouble. We had a package delivered one day.
Speaker 7: It was brown paper, had a lot of stamps on it.
Speaker 7: He was dressed to the office and I'm like, what
Speaker 7: is this? And so the administrator took it upstairs to
Speaker 7: the doctor and he's like, put it down called the
Speaker 7: bomb squad. It's like, oh my goodness. But inside was
Speaker 7: a box of chocolates and there were little plastic fetus
Speaker 7: things stuck in each of them.
Speaker 1: Emily says, even in the face of such threats, she
Speaker 1: never once questioned her position at the hospital.
Speaker 7: The pats would come to you afterwards and shake your hand,
Speaker 7: thank you so much for being there, thank you for
Speaker 7: holding my hands, And that became important to me. Most
Speaker 7: people have a job and they just do it. The
Speaker 7: bosses really don't say a whole lot. They keep on,
Speaker 7: just keep going. But that became one of the reasons
Speaker 7: to do a good job, to make sure you took
Speaker 7: care of the women, because that's what your job was.
Speaker 1: And Thursday, January twenty ninth, nineteen ninety eight, was just
Speaker 1: like any other day for Emily.
Speaker 5: She was just doing her job. What do you remember
Speaker 5: from that day?
Speaker 7: Nothing? Absolutely nothing. I don't remember getting up taking a
Speaker 7: shower about that. The only thing I know about it
Speaker 7: is what people have told me. The lady that usually
Speaker 7: came in was pregnant. She was on attornity leave. She
Speaker 7: had the baby the next week, so I was taken
Speaker 7: her place doing some of her jobs, working on lab
Speaker 7: work and stuff. They had put a new security system
Speaker 7: in and I didn't have the code for it, and
Speaker 7: the administrator was late that day because she had been
Speaker 7: sick that morning. So I was there an hour and
Speaker 7: a half early. Of course, Sandy would have always been there.
Speaker 1: Robert Sanderson, better known as Sandy, was an off duty
Speaker 1: police officer the clinic hired to protect their nurses and
Speaker 1: patients from protesters. He had only recently begun working at
Speaker 1: the clinic, filling in for another off duty officer who
Speaker 1: was away on leave.
Speaker 7: I didn't know Sandy much. I mean, he came to work,
Speaker 7: he did his job. He was courteous. He was not
Speaker 7: pro choice, but he knew it was his responsibility. Every
Speaker 7: day he came to work to protect those women. He
Speaker 7: was there before we got there. He would leave after
Speaker 7: they left. There was very few hours of the day
Speaker 7: that we weren't protected by a police officer, just mild manner.
Speaker 7: I considered him one of the good guys. I'm sure
Speaker 7: it was a difficult thing for him to do. He
Speaker 7: did his job.
Speaker 5: Back to that morning, it's around seven thirty am.
Speaker 7: Now there were other people there. Man and his daughter,
Speaker 7: the daughter's boyfriend, and the boyfriend's father were there. They
Speaker 7: came way too early. They got out one time and
Speaker 7: talked to Sandy. I wasn't there yet, I don't think,
Speaker 7: and they left because Sandy said no. The clinic's not
Speaker 7: open yet. So they left. They came back and the guy,
Speaker 7: the dad, got out of the car and walked up
Speaker 7: and Sandy told know they're not open yet. He goes,
Speaker 7: what is that over there? And when he told Sandy that,
Speaker 7: Sandy took out his night stick and went to look
Speaker 7: at it, and that's when he pushed the button. And
Speaker 7: that was six to twelve feet in front of the bomb.
Speaker 7: Sandy was off to the side. He got the force
Speaker 7: of the blast. I got the shrapnel. There was no
Speaker 7: hope for Sandy. His gun was out in the street,
Speaker 7: his badge was somewhere else, leg was other places.
Speaker 3: Emily Lyons was walking into the abortion clinic where she
Speaker 3: worked as a nurse. Birmingham police officer Robert Sandy Sanderson
Speaker 3: was standing guard outside. Sanderson spotted a suspicious object hidden
Speaker 3: in a flower pot near the door. The blast killed
Speaker 3: officer Sanderson instantly. Lion spent the next eight weeks in
Speaker 3: the hospital.
Speaker 7: The U paramedics and all those got there quickly after
Speaker 7: nine to one one call. The FBI didn't want them
Speaker 7: to come up to me. They thought there may have
Speaker 7: been a secondary bomb, so they wanted to leave me there.
Speaker 7: Firemen and the paramedics one are the initial people who
Speaker 7: saved me. All I know is they told me the
Speaker 7: bomb went off at seven point thirty three. I had
Speaker 7: a watch on, I didn't get it back, and I
Speaker 7: was in the operating room before eight o'clock that day.
Speaker 7: Jeffrey was the first one to tell me. In the
Speaker 7: burn unit, he would always every day come in talk
Speaker 7: to me. He would tell me what had happened.
Speaker 1: Emily and Jeffrey had only been married for four years
Speaker 1: at this point, but he never left her side, not
Speaker 1: even for a minute.
Speaker 7: I didn't see what I had looked like for almost
Speaker 7: a year. I couldn't see the pictures on the computer.
Speaker 7: It went until it had my eye fixed and lens
Speaker 7: and everything done that I could see how bad things were.
Speaker 7: Those first few pictures that I saw, my face was charcoal. Oh,
Speaker 7: every little spot just stood out of where something had
Speaker 7: gone in and burned me, broke in my face. And
Speaker 7: then when I saw the X rays and stuff, it
Speaker 7: was how could somebody do that to somebody else? I mean,
Speaker 7: just deliberate and it was premeditated. He thought about it,
Speaker 7: he planned on it. I just cried because it was like,
Speaker 7: you hurt me so badly. And you don't know me,
Speaker 7: your opinion, your thoughts are no more important than mine, Heart,
Speaker 7: But I'm sure I'm gonna kill you. The FBI came
Speaker 7: that first summer and told me it was different from
Speaker 7: his other bombs he had made. The others were time related.
Speaker 7: This was detonated by him, so we know he watched.
Speaker 7: He stood out there and watched us, and when he
Speaker 7: thought he was going to be found out, he pushed
Speaker 7: the button.
Speaker 5: Next time on Flashpoint, he heard.
Speaker 11: The bomb explode, and when he looked out of his window,
Speaker 11: you could see some smoke and some people moving that way.
Speaker 11: But yet there was one individual that appeared to have
Speaker 11: some kind of disguise on and was not running, but
Speaker 11: walking very hurriedly away from the scene. And he just
Speaker 11: thought to himself, there's something wrong with this picture. Jeff
Speaker 11: saw him get in a truck, a gray Nissan pickup truck,
Speaker 11: and wrote the tag number of the pickup truck down
Speaker 11: the tag number we ran and was registered to.
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