MrBallen

You could place it and then travel and be far away.

But at the same time, Louisiana was really far away, and Phil really didn't seem to have any technical background that Shepard had found.

So Phil was still in, but less so.

As Shepard stood there in the blackened, destroyed foyer, looking at the partially burned pages of Modern Bride magazines that had been blown all over the room,

He thought about the fact that whoever had done this had to have been very comfortable in Kem's house.

They had gotten inside the house at some point and then clearly spent time in the basement tinkering with the bomb.

Then they came up and they're in the foyer setting the bomb up.

I mean, that's someone who's pretty confident they're not going to get caught doing all this inside the house.

That's...

That's serious boldness.

And so Shepard was starting to feel pretty confident that whoever had done this was either family to Kem or as close to her as family.

Shepard left Kem's house thinking about how he might search both Dale and Todd's places of work to see if any of the machinery they used shared parts with the bomb.

But as he stepped off the final step onto the sidewalk, he heard a voice call out behind him, and he turned to see a Bloomington police officer jogging over towards him.

The bombing had created real panic, not just in Bloomington, but across Illinois.

People were now terrified that there was going to be a bomb that would show up on their front porch.

They would see a package they didn't recognize, and they would call the police with fears that that could be an explosive.

I mean, it was like this paranoia had swept the state.

And so in response to that, specifically in Bloomington, the police had a much stronger presence out on the street.

and Shepard had also asked officers to re-canvass Kem's neighborhood to question the neighbors again, now that they knew more about the bomb itself, specifically that the bomb was motion activated, which meant the bomber did not need to be there basically right before it went off,

They were in the house.