South County car bomber

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The South County car bomber was a person (or persons) who terrorized south St. Louis County, Missouri, with a series of fatal car bombings in 1977. [1]

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Event

Two people – Shirley Marie Flynn and Robert Curtis Jackson – were killed in bombings on October 18, 1977, and November 3, 1977, respectively. [2] A third victim, Ronald Sterghos, escaped injury in an earlier attack on October 7, 1977. [2] [3]

The bombings ceased after that and were never solved, despite an extensive effort by police. [2] The bombings have been described as random, [1] and some investigators believed that they were the work of a deranged individual. [1] Some authorities have, however, noted similarities between the St. Louis County bombings and a car bombing on March 7, 1978, in Paducah, Kentucky, in which William Ohlhausen, who had been Shirley Flynn's boyfriend, was seriously injured. [3]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Terror Grips South St, Louis". Southeast Missourian . November 4, 1977. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "14 unsolved fatal bombings here since '62" (PDF). probably St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Marjorie Mandel. "7th Car Bombing Death Here In Decade" (PDF). St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Retrieved May 26, 2014.


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