Ep 44 - Avoid Suspicious Packages & Petty Men

In December 1989, a string of deadly mail bombings sent shockwaves through the legal community, claiming the lives of a federal judge (Judge Robert Smith Vance) and a civil rights attorney (Robert E. Robinson), and sending federal investigators on a hunt for one of the pettiest men to ever live.

In this episode, we also discuss: The Machine (secret society at The University of Alabama), astrology (or “the dark arts of Chinese New Year animals”), Governor Memaw (Kay Ivey), and Rob’s opinion on the size of peppers and onions in food ("not gobbed on there").

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Sources:

- Winne, M. (1995). Priority mail: The investigation and trial of a mail bomber obsessed with destroying our justice system.

- Forensic Files. (1998, October 29). Deadly Delivery (Season 3, Episode 5) [can be found on YouTube]

- Robert Smith Vance. (2024). In Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved from https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/vance-robert-smith/

- United States of America v. Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. (11th Cir. 1992)

- United States v. Moody, 763 F. Supp. 589 (M.D. Ga. 1991)

- Faulk, K. (2018, April 19). Walter Leroy Moody executed for 1989 bombing that killed Judge Robert Vance. https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/04/execution_of_alabamas_oldest_d.html

- Wikipedia: Robert Smith Vance

- Wikipedia: Robert E. Robinson

- Wikipedia: Walter Moody