E462 - Mad Bomber of New York

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover George Metesky — the Mad Bomber of New York City, the man who spent sixteen years planting homemade pipe bombs in movie theaters, phone booths, and transit terminals all over Manhattan while the NYPD ran itself in circles trying to find him. From 1940 to 1956, Metesky planted over thirty devices, wrote taunting letters to the press, and never killed a single person — and we'll get into why that appears to have been entirely by design. What makes this case genuinely fascinating is how it ended: not through detective work, but through a cr...