Note with pipe bombs signals angry lone actor targets government
An analyst links the note found with pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across Iowa Illinois and Nebraska to an angry individual or small group. The writer signed Someone Who Cares and argues government overreach while the FBI cautions the public to report tips as bombs injured six people and five more appeared without injuries.
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Des Moines
FBI
Iowa
Illinois
Nebraska
Pipe hazardous devices hurt postal workers in Midwest
Four postal employees and two women in Iowa were injured by pipe bombs, with devices found around Maquoketa and near Interstate 80. Investigators consider a single perpetrator or small group behind the acts of domestic extremism while coordinating mail safety and public notices.
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Iowa
Jackson County
Maquoketa
Illinois
Nebraska
Jon Petersen
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
FBI
Bogner
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Jensen
Rural Tipton Couple Targeted by Mailbox Bombing
A rural Tipton woman is severely injured in a mailbox bomb blast and described by friends as an angel. She suffered facial shrapnel wounds a cut lip and forehead plus multiple stitches and hearing loss with a 50 50 chance of recovery. Her husband notes his own hearing and eardrum soreness.
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Reac
Tipton
Werling
Richard Anderson
Tipton Post Office
Joan Sneddon
Anderson
Delores
Bryce Werling
Delores Werling
Mailbox bombs injure several in Iowa Illinois Rural areas
A wave of mailbox pipe bombs injures and alarms residents across Iowa and Illinois. Victims include Delores Werling in Cedar County and Doris Zimmerman in Jones County, with multiple mail carriers hurt and the FBI assisting at the crime scenes. Local towns mourn and residents fear further attacks as investigations continue.
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Jensen
Iowa State Crime Lab
Delaware County
Cedar Rapids
Sheriff's Department
Cedar County
Doris Zimmerman
Linn-Jones County
Dubuque County
Sageville
Dubuque
Marilyn Doleslager
Morrison
Ill
Steve Ertmer
Elizabeth
Richard
Doris
St. Luke’s Hospital
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