South County car bomber

The South County car bomber was a person (or persons) who terrorized south St. Louis County, Missouri with a series of fatal car bombings in 1977.[1]

Two people – Shirley Marie Flynn and Robert Curtis Jackson – were killed in bombings on October 18, 1977 and November 3, 1977, respectively.[2] A third victim, Ronald Sterghos, escaped injury in an earlier attack on October 7, 1977.[2][3]

The bombings ceased after that and were never solved, despite an extensive effort.[2] The bombings appear to have been random[1] and some authorities believed they were the work of a deranged individual,[1] although authorities also noted similarities between the three bombings and a car bombing on March 7 1978 in Paducah, Kentucky in which William Ohlhausen, who had been Shirley Flynn's boyfriend, was seriously injured.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Terror Grips South St, Louis". Southeast Missourian. November 4, 1977. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "14 unsolved fatal bombings here since '62" (PDF). probably St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marjorie Mandel. "7th Car Bombing Death Here In Decade" (PDF). St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved May 26, 2014.