Sunset Limited Sabotage | Who Are the "Sons of the Gestapo" and Did They Derail This Train?
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In the remote Arizona desert, a passenger train barreled through the night carrying over 250 people. The crew had no idea of the danger ahead. Someone had removed 29 railway spikes and shifted the tracks. What followed was a devastating derailment. At the crash site, the discovery of a cryptic manifesto sparked a federal investigation with ties to the Oklahoma City bombing. So, who did this and why? Today, we investigate the Sunset Limited sabotage. This is Red Web.
welcome back task force to another episode of red web the podcast all about unsolved mysteries true crime and a sprinkling of the unknown i'm your resident mystery enthusiast trevor collins and joining me hearing this case for the very first time alfredo diaz
absolutely terrifying because this has crossed my mind at some point in my life of like what if someone just did this and someone did like there's probably hundreds of miles of train tracks probably thousands right yeah and none of it's being monitored and so someone could just Yeah, I'm assuming the I don't know, maybe the equipment's hard to get a hold of or something, but it's possible. Right. Someone really wanted to.
Mm hmm.
And someone did. And so absolutely terrifying that someone could just do that and then that's it done.
Right. I mean, let's break it down piece by piece. Thousands of miles, I'm sure, is somewhere accurate for North America, though I wish we had more. I'm putting out the word. I would love me a high-speed rail. After going to Japan and even seeing the trains in Europe, I'm like, we're in the Stone Ages back here. Plane travel is great. I love me a high-speed rail. Second of all, there are a few ways to monitor some of these remote areas, because you're not wrong. There are remote tracks just way off, like this one, in the middle of the desert where people aren't really seeing it unless the train's going by. You might have people kind of observing it, but there are sensors and track circuits that we're going to talk about that usually, usually keep an eye for certain things of this nature, whether it be another train on the track or if a rail was moved.
We'll talk about that because it was manipulated here.
Oh man. Cause then at that point there might be, yeah, there might be some coding manipulation or a bit of an inside job, something like that. I didn't know that. I didn't know train tracks had like sensors like that.
Same, I'll be honest, I keep my eyes to the sky and I'm a plane guy, but trains are, I mean, they're growing on me, man. They're old school, but they're growing on me. So I learned a lot when we were doing this research for this episode. But yeah, there's a lot to break down with this one, including, like I said, it really starts to get hairy with how much this ties into other events of that time. Like this is six months after the Oklahoma City bombing. And so we're not gonna get way into the weeds of what that is and what the other events that are referenced in this manifesto, this letter, but like we'll get lightly into them because they are huge topics of their own and maybe someday we'll talk about each of them.
But it's wild because we're gonna see, you know, it's the year is 1995. You and I are just little drooling children running around in the yards But this came at such a moment in the zeitgeist where, again, especially because the Oklahoma City bombing, that it really had the FBI on edge. It had the public on edge. And that is really the lens I want to analyze this topic through because it really guides how we all responded to it. And that really also shifts just how much of an effort went into trying to figure this out. But it is still a cold case. I just...
Yeah, I mean, like, if someone just, like, did that in the random part of the track in the middle of the night and then just left and then never did it again. Dude, what do you do about that? He's in the middle of the woods just doing that, you know, and then he just disappears and doesn't do it again.
Right. That's, like, the scariest thing is the person with no reason, they don't have a pattern, they just do one chaotic, dangerous, deadly thing one time.
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