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Delivering darkness | Austin Bomber

Darkness

The Drag Audio Production House

True Crime

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

At a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio, a package explodes. Law enforcement officials quickly realize that another package that likely has a bomb in it has also been shipped via FedEx, and they race to find it. An FBI agent works to match receipts for equipment bought in the Austin area that could be used to make a bomb with a database of vehicles. She finds a match and officials believe they have identified the bomber.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the drag.

0:06.0

Inside a FedEx distribution center is a high-tech Dr. Seuss-like system that sorts incoming shipments.

0:17.0

According to a FedEx promo video, here's what happens when a package arrives.

0:22.0

First, it's taken on a roller coaster of conveyor

0:25.1

belt carrying packages as quickly as 540 feet per minute. That's about six

0:30.9

miles per hour, a good jogging speed.

0:34.1

Then the package rushes through some tunnels with cameras

0:37.1

to scan the package from all six sides.

0:40.3

The cameras capture a 3D image

0:42.3

and record the 30 serial numbers from the barcode.

0:45.0

Each digit represents something different in the FedEx system.

0:50.0

A computer reads a serial number and calculates where the package needs to go, and a robotic arm pushes it closer towards its delivery truck.

0:59.0

It's just after 11.30 PM. on Monday March 19th 2018.

1:05.8

Grave yard hours at the FedEx Distribution Center

1:08.8

in shirts, Texas, just northeast of San Antonio.

1:13.0

A package arrives at the center.

1:15.0

It's moving through the conveyor belt, the sorting arms, the tunnels,

1:20.0

it looks like any other package until a sorting arm hits it and it explodes.

1:27.0

The San Antonio Bomb Squad arrives at the scene and a bomb tech enters the distribution center alongside an FBI agent.

1:36.1

They examine the remains of the box and they piece together the information on the labels.

1:41.4

The return label says the sender's name is quote

1:43.8

Kelly Kilmoor, but the return address on the label it doesn't exist. Well, the

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