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Updated 11/03/2025
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Updated 29/01/2025
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Updated 01/09/2021
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Updated 14/06/2022
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01/08/2023

'A typical summer' | The UT Tower Sniper

It's August 1, 1966, a hot summer day in Austin, Texas. Not that many people are on the University of Texas campus, except the students enrolled in summer classes. As Monday morning classes start, a 25-year-old former Marine has just killed his wife and mother. He packs the trunk of his car with seven guns and enough supplies to last him days. Then he drives to campus.

01/08/2023

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35 min
22/08/2023

'Time is ticking' | The UT Tower Sniper

A police officer assigned to divert traffic from the campus area decides to head into the action. The bookstore employee heads toward the tower and teams up with law enforcement. Together, they hatch a plan to stop the sniper.

22/08/2023

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42 min
15/08/2023

'It's like a battle scene' | The UT Tower Sniper

The shooting continues along The Drag, a nearby street full of shops and restaurants. An employee of the university bookstore helps a wounded boy. More people join the rescue efforts. Students eating lunch and shopping take cover or run to safety. Police officers, students, and others get their guns and begin firing back at the sniper.

15/08/2023

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48 min
08/08/2023

'Like I was being electrocuted' | The UT Tower Sniper

The sniper opens fire on the University of Texas campus and the surrounding area. He shoots a pregnant woman, leaving her on hot concrete in the middle of the gunfire. A local radio reporter heads to the scene. Students in a Shakespeare class watch out the window as a police officer is shot.

08/08/2023

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49 min
02/11/2021

The first attack | Austin Bomber

On a quiet suburban street in northeast Austin, 39-year-old father and husband Stephan House prepares to go to work. He spots a package on his porch. The box explodes in his hands. His neighbor runs to his porch and tries to help the bleeding man as he talks to a 911 operator, but there's nothing he can do. In the aftermath, the Austin police tell the public that the bombing seems to be an isolated incident and that there is no cause for alarm.

02/11/2021

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44 min
04/11/2021

Hope | Austin Bomber

On the day investigators work the scene of the bomb that struck Draylen Mason's home, 75-year-old Hope Herrera spends the morning caring for her 93-year-old mother. Hope picks up a package from her porch, and it explodes. Six hundred federal agents descend on Austin to work the case and to try to figure out the bomber's identity, and no one knows where the serial bomber will strike next.

04/11/2021

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38 min
02/11/2021

Draylen's story | Austin Bomber

Teenager Draylen Mason dreams of being a neurosurgeon, and he also excels in music, which draws an offer to study the double bass under world-renowned professors at the University of Texas. Ten days after the first bomb exploded in an Austin suburb, Draylen notices a package on the porch and brings it into his family's home. The package explodes, and it becomes clear that the death of Stephan House, a 39-year-old Black man, was not an isolated incident. Since Draylen is also Black, the community fears that Austin's Black population is being targeted by an unknown serial bomber.

02/11/2021

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38 min
11/11/2021

Delivering darkness | Austin Bomber

At a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio, a package explodes. Law enforcement officials quickly realize that another package that likely has a bomb in it has also been shipped via FedEx, and they race to find it. An FBI agent works to match receipts for equipment bought in the Austin area that could be used to make a bomb with a database of vehicles. She finds a match and officials believe they have identified the bomber.

11/11/2021

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36 min
16/11/2021

19 days | Austin Bomber

It has been nearly three weeks since the first bomb killed Stephan House, beginning an unprecedented time of terror in Austin. Law enforcement officials are closing in on the top suspect, and no one knows what will happen as the net closes around him.

16/11/2021

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45 min
11/02/2025

'A wolf in sheep's clothing'

On Holy Saturday in 1960, Irene Garza told her parents she was going to an evening confession at their church. But Irene never came home. Her worried parents alerted the police and waited anxiously for five days until Irene's body was found floating in a canal.

11/02/2025

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34 min

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