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]

Event

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 by police.[2] The bombings have been described as random,[1] and some investigators believed that they were the work of a deranged individual.[1] Some authorities have, however, noted similarities between the St. Louis County 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]

See also

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


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