Witnessed: 19 Days - The Hunt for the Austin Serial Bomber

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

On March 2, 2018, an anonymous and deadly package bomb detonated on the doorstep of a home in Austin, Texas. Soon after - another was discovered, and another—each one a little more sophisticated than the last, and each target seemingly more and more random. Confusion and panic set in across the city - who was this elusive serial bomber? Why were they planting these bombs? And why were they so hard to track down? Find out on Witnessed: 19 Days - The story behind the frantic race to catch the Austin serial bomber. Join host Sean Flynn as he traces the case from its origins to its shocking conclusions. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes of Witnessed: 19 Days right now, completely ad-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Listen to Sean Flynn here, host of the newest podcast that just dropped on the Binge channel.
0:04.8	Witnessed 19 days. Like Crooked City, this story takes us deep inside a shocking crime that rocked an entire city, this time Austin, Texas. In 2018, the city
0:15.8	was terrorized by a serial bomber leaving more and more sophisticated bombs and
0:20.3	packages delivered throughout the city.
0:23.0	With the city filling up for South by Southwest,
0:25.8	the FBI and the Austin Bomb Squad are racing against the clock
0:29.1	to find the culprit.
0:30.5	Who is this mysterious bomber?
0:32.4	Why are they so hard to track down?
0:34.0	And why are they doing this?
0:36.0	Join me as we trace this case from its origins to its shocking conclusion
0:40.0	on Witness 19 days.
0:42.0	Listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts,
0:44.4	or if you're a subscriber to the Binge,
0:46.4	you can enjoy all episodes ad-free right now.
1:01.0	On March 2nd, 2018, a package was placed on the doorstep of a home in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Austin, Texas.
1:06.0	It was an unremarkable package, just a cardboard box. But this package, one of the millions delivered that same day
1:10.0	all across America, would change the city of Austin forever.
1:14.3	9-1-1-1 do you need...
1:17.3	Hey I don't know what's going on my neighbor he's there's blood everywhere
1:21.8	we need an ambulance immediately.
1:23.7	We have never had a call to where a package was placed by someone with the intent to
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