86 Pipe Bomb Computer Store Santa Ana:Unabomber Crime?

[akwilks]

Does anyone know why this wasn't listed as an official Unabomber crime?

I mean, maybe this was a business rival, divorce case or some other circumstance.

But a pipe bomb behind a computer store?That cries out Kaczynski!

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Santa Ana Pipe Bomb Discovered Behind Computer Store
[Orange County Edition]



Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: Nancy Wride
Date: Jul 15, 1986
Start Page: 2
Section: Metro; 2; Metro Desk
Text Word Count: 343



PHOTO: A bomb-defusing robot heads back to the truck after being used to neutralize a pipe bomb found behind a computer store in Santa Ana. / CLIFF OTTO / Los Angeles Times

[Francine Garton] said she drove to the back of the building and parked near the shop's rear door, where most employees enter. She initially thought the bomb was "just an old piece of pipe."

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AK - What is of particular interest is this, the week of the first Original Night Stalker attack in Goleta, CA there was a train derailed by use of wood and concrete. The Original Night Stalker killed Janelle Cruz on May 4, 1986 in Irvine, Orange County, CA. In July 1986 it appears very likely Ted Kaczynski plants a bomb at a computer store in Santa Ana, Orange County, CA. And we have a possible Zodiac letter sent from California in March or May of 1986.

What are the odds the one killer, Ted Kaczynski, just happens to probably be in Goleta, CA in October 1979 the week of the first ONS attack, and then is probably in Orange County the same summer as another ONS attack?

This MAY fit a pattern - bombing at same general locale and same month as Percy murder, fires with some of the Zodiac crimes, jet engine plant burned down same day and area as Joan Webster murder, etc.

The site of the computer store pipe bomb, Santa Ana, is less than ten miles from Irvine, where the Original Night Stalker killed Janelle Cruz.

[akwilks]

There was at least one other pipe bomb found in Orange County in that summer of 1986.

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Apparent Pipe Bomb Found in Anaheim Yard
[Orange County Edition]



Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: MARK LANDSBAUM
Date: Aug 20, 1986
Start Page: 1
Section: Metro; 2; Metro Desk
Text Word Count: 477



Abstract (Document Summary)



Three women found what appeared to be a pipe bomb with a partially burned fuse at the front door of an Anaheim home Tuesday and carried it about five blocks to a fire station, where firefighters immediately evacuated the building and surrounding homes, authorities said.

The device, an 8- to 10-inch-long piece of galvanized pipe about two inches in diameter, with caps on both ends and a fuse protruding from one, was found about 6 p.m., Police Lt. Jack Parra said.

Anaheim police and the Orange County Sheriff's Department bomb squad were summoned, and the device was removed in a special truck used to transport explosives, Parra said. After the device is examined, it will be destroyed or dismantled, he said.

[akwilks]

Santa Ana Pipe Bomb Discovered Behind Computer Store
[Orange County Edition]

Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: Nancy Wride
Date: Jul 15, 1986
Start Page: 2
Section: Metro; 2; Metro Desk
Text Word Count: 343

Document Text

A crudely fashioned, foot-long pipe bomb was discovered behind a computer store Monday morning, prompting a brief evacuation of several shops.
Police said the explosive device was defused without incident, and workers returned to their shops a short time later.
Employees of InaComp Computer Center at 3827 Bristol St., who discovered the bomb as they arrived for work, said they had not received bomb threats and did not believe they were the target of an attack.
"With all the trash bins out here and people going through the trash for cardboard and bottles, it could have been anybody," Francine Garton, a saleswoman at the firm, said after the brief "excitement" Monday. "We figure it was just some kids driving by and tossing it. . . . We've also had car stereos ripped off in that back parking strip."

Police Lt. Bob Chavez said he could not comment on whether investigators believe the metal device had been randomly discarded behind the building or placed there intentionally.
Garton said she drove to the back of the building and parked near the shop's rear door, where most employees enter. She initially thought the bomb was "just an old piece of pipe."
But a co-worker, Jim Marx, examined the device and then phoned police about 10:30 a.m.
Sgt. Mike Bailey and Officer Don Wolfram arrived, studied the pipe "from a distance" and called the Orange County Sheriff's Department's hazardous devices squad.

Using a robot-like device, the explosives team defused the bomb and took it away for further study, police said.

Garton said the pipe bomb was about a foot long and three inches around, with both ends covered.

"It was kind of tense there for a while, because my brand new car (a white Cadillac) was parked right next to the thing," Garton said, "and I thought it was
going to be a goner. . . ."


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Apparent Pipe Bomb Found in Anaheim Yard
[Orange County Edition]

Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) - Los Angeles, Calif.
Author: MARK LANDSBAUM
Date: Aug 20, 1986
Start Page: 1
Section: Metro; 2; Metro Desk
Text Word Count: 477

Document Text

Three women found what appeared to be a pipe bomb with a partially burned fuse at the front door of an Anaheim home Tuesday and carried it about five blocks to a fire station, where firefighters immediately evacuated the building and surrounding homes, authorities said.
Rebecca Arce, 52, said she did not know what the device was when she found it about 10 feet from her front door in the 300 block of Sabina Street.
"When I went outside to go to the store, I found it over there behind my roses," she said. "I thought it was only a little bit of pipe. When I took it in my hand . . . I didn't think it was a bomb. I didn't think to call the police."

Taken to Station

Arce showed the pipe to her daughter, Lupe Briseno, 17, and her niece, Rebecca Hernandez, 18, and then all three drove with the device to the fire station a few blocks away at 500 E. Broadway.
Firefighters evacuated the fire station, two nearby apartment complexes and half a dozen surrounding houses and for about 40 minutes diverted traffic from four streets in the neighborhood.
Arce said she knows of no reason someone would leave a bomb in her front yard. But she added that she believes it was deliberately left because the pipe was inside a large fence surrounding her property and too close to her house and too far from the street to have been accidentally dropped.
"Thank God nothing happened," she said.
The device, an 8- to 10-inch-long piece of galvanized pipe about two inches in diameter, with caps on both ends and a fuse protruding from one, was found about 6 p.m., Police Lt. Jack Parra said.

"She surprised us," Fire Capt. Jim Cox said of the woman who showed up at the headquarters fire station, pipe in hand, with her two companions.
The women "didn't really know the dangers of it," Cox said.
But firefighters returning from a call "recognized it immediately as a pipe bomb and said, `Put that thing down,' " Cox said. "That's when they realized they were dealing with something more than they thought they had."

Anaheim police and the Orange County Sheriff's Department bomb squad were summoned, and the device was removed in a special truck used to transport explosives, Parra said. After the device is examined, it will be destroyed or dismantled, he said.
"The real concern we had was (that) the lady, instead of calling us, actually picked it up and took it to the fire station," Parra said. "It definitely looked like an explosive device."

Parra said police are investigating the matter "as though it were an intentionally laid bomb."

"We're investigating now, (but) there haven't been any threats or disturbances in the neighborhood," he said.
Residents were allowed to return to the neighborhood about 7:50 p.m.

[akwilks]

The first bomb case definitely sounds like Kaczynski. In 1985 he had placed a pipe bomb behind a computer store in Sacramento, then later did the same in Utah. He was also known to place them near cars or other things where people would have to move them. The size and being capped on both ends also fits. Some of his devices, particularly in the 1990's, were very sophisticated. Yet he varied this with ones in the 70's and 80's that were crude, using matches and tape. Hard to judge on the second one without knowning the occupation of the homeowner. He also did some more random targeting as well, some were just experiments, he didn't care who the person was.

But it seems fairly clear that Ted Kaczynski was likely in Orange County in the summer of 1986, the same summer that Janelle Cruz was killed in Orange County in the last ONS attack, just seven miles from where she was murdered. Just as it seems likely he was in Goleta in October 1979, the week of the first ONS attack.