After 40 years, search for University of Wisconsin bombing suspect heats up again
The anonymous call came in the middle of the night, from a phone booth near Madison, Wis. "Hey, pig!'' a male voice warned. "There's a bomb in the math research building.''
It was 1970, the height of student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. The pig, in the vernacular of the times, was a police dispatcher. And the bomb was real, a novel device that exploded minutes later on the University of Wisconsin campus, causing massive damage and killing a researcher who was the father of three young children.
The devastation triggered an intensive FBI manhunt for one of the bombers, a frustrating quest that 40 years later has become the ultimate cold case. The quarry is Leo Burt, who has eluded the FBI longer than any other fugitive who made its Ten Most Wanted List. A prominent figure in the annals of domestic terrorism, he is virtually unknown to the general public.
Now the search is heating up again. New tips have flowed to the FBI in recent months, and the bureau is taking advantage of the bombing's 40th anniversary to bring new attention to the case in the hopes that the publicity might lead them to Burt....
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It was 1970, the height of student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. The pig, in the vernacular of the times, was a police dispatcher. And the bomb was real, a novel device that exploded minutes later on the University of Wisconsin campus, causing massive damage and killing a researcher who was the father of three young children.
The devastation triggered an intensive FBI manhunt for one of the bombers, a frustrating quest that 40 years later has become the ultimate cold case. The quarry is Leo Burt, who has eluded the FBI longer than any other fugitive who made its Ten Most Wanted List. A prominent figure in the annals of domestic terrorism, he is virtually unknown to the general public.
Now the search is heating up again. New tips have flowed to the FBI in recent months, and the bureau is taking advantage of the bombing's 40th anniversary to bring new attention to the case in the hopes that the publicity might lead them to Burt....