Walter Leroy Moody Jr. Serial Bomber

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December 16, 1989 Walter Leroy Moody Jr. Serial Bomber He was convicted of killing federal judge Robert Smith Vance one of only three 20th century United States federal court judges assassinated. Walter Leroy Moody Jr., charged with the murders of Judge Vance and of Robert E. Robinson, a black civil-rights attorney in Savannah, Georgia, at his office. Moody was also charged with mailing bombs that were defused at the Eleventh Circuit's headquarters in Atlanta and at the Jacksonville office of the NAACP. Authorities doubt he was a racist and may have been a diversion meant to throw off authorities. Moody had been convicted in 1972 of the possession of the bomb that exploded in his house, injuring his first wife, Hazel; he intended to send the bomb to Atlanta car dealer Thomas N. Downing, the man who repossessed Moody's car. When an attempted murder charge against him in 1983 ended in a hung jury, he sued the three men he was accused of trying to kill, two sheriff's officials and a prosecutor, charging they maliciously prosecuted him.  And since becoming a suspect in the bomb case, he has filed a barrage of motions and legal actions, including challenges to search warrants and a criminal mischief complaint he filed against F.B.I. agents


Alternative theory: Is  there some conspiracy where somebody give Moody a list of targets to bomb?

Resembles March 26, 2018 Thanh Cong Phan Suspicious Packages Sent To Military Bases Case Everett, WA man Thanh Cong Phan (Vietnamese name) is arrested and charged with sending suspicious packages to FBI, Washington, D.C.-area military bases. Each box contained a letter “with ramblings about neuropsychology, mind control” and terrorism. They were sent to government mail-processing facilities at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, where the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is headquartered; Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, DC; the CIA in Langley, Virginia; and Naval Surface Warfare Station in Dahlgren, Virginia. The package at Fort McNair was addressed to the National Defense University and contained black powder and a fuse. No connection less than a week after the suspect in similar terrorist style serial bombings in Austin blew himself up.
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 DOJ giving Alabama full custody of package bomber who killed Birmingham judge MSN.com  Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the U.S. will give Alabama full custody of a convicted package bomber who killed a federal judge so the state can execute him on Thursday. Justice Department said it would waive its right to custody of Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. (white male) The filing came after Moody argued he should be in federal custody because he was sentenced to multiple life sentences in federal prison. Moody is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the bombing death of U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Vance in 1989.

• Robert Smith Vance - Wikipedia  Robert Smith Vance Sr. (May 10, 1931 – December 16, 1989) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was one of three 20th century United States federal court judges assassinated because of their service as judge ... federal government charged  serial bomber,  Walter Leroy Moody Jr., with the murders of Judge Vance and of Robert E. Robinson, a black civil-rights attorney in Savannah, Georgia, who had been killed in a separate explosion at his office. Moody was also charged with mailing bombs that were defused at the Eleventh Circuit's headquarters in Atlanta and at the Jacksonville office of the NAACP.
• Moody had been convicted in 1972 of the possession of the bomb that exploded in his house, injuring his first wife, Hazel; he intended to send the bomb to Atlanta car dealer Thomas N. Downing, the man who repossessed Moody's car. H
• Judge Vance Murder — FBI Getting a plainly wrapped package in the mail wasn't all that surprising. It was the holidays, after all. What was inside was another matter. It was a bomb. When federal appeals Judge Robert Vance opened the small brown parcel in the kitchen of his suburban Alabama home on December 16, 1989, it exploded, killing him ...
• LETTER BOMB KILLS U.S. APPEALS JUDGE - The New York Times
• https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/17/us/letter-bomb-kills-us-appeals-judge.htmlDec 17, 1989 - The judge, Robert S. Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, died instantly when a package delivered to his home went off around ... In May 1988, a Federal DistrictJudge, Richard Daronco, 56, was shot and killed at his home in Westchester County by a former New York City police ...
• Shadowy Bombing Case Is Focusing On Reclusive and Enigmatic Figure NY times  Two days later Robbie S. Robinson, a black city councilman in Savannah, Georgia, opened a virtually identical package delivered by mail to his law office; both of his arms were blown off in the ensuing explosion, and he died three hours later under surgery. only in a blizzard of lawsuits and court cases that have been his obsession for the past 20 years that Walter Leroy Moody Jr. seems to come to life.  Judge Robert S. Vance was killed by a bomb sent to his home outside Birmingham, Ala.  A second bomb was defused at the court's offices here. A third killed Robert Robinson, a civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Ga., and a fourth was defused after being sent to the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jacksonville, [who gave him this list of targets?] Fla. #20 Years of Suits and Appeals Mr. Moody has spent almost 20 of his 56 years coming up with new grounds to appeal his 1972 conviction, for possessing a bomb that exploded in his first wife's hands, wounding her severely. The current charges of obstruction of justice, bribery and tampering with witnesses stem from what prosecutors allege was a scheme to fabricate an alibi in that case...  despite what seemed to be a racial motivation behind the bombings, investigators are not sure now whether race played any part in them.  Mr. Moody was planning to sell T-shirts and a movie script based on his notoriety as the mail bomb suspect. ''They shouldn't be able to get away with that!'' says a brochure he put together for his new enterprise, which also offers free memberships in his writers' guild.
• Walter Leroy Moody - latimes   A thousand miles from the Deep South region where a string of pipe bombings spread terror and death in 1989, a Georgia man went on trial Tuesday, accused of making and mailing the devices that killed a federal ...
• Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. - Alabama Execution - April 19, 2018 ... cncpunishment Mar 3, 2018 - Walter Leroy Moody Junior was later sentenced to death in 1997 for killing Vance, and received seven life terms on federal charges in that killing and the. ... great deal of information on Roy Moody that may shed light on the mind and manner of individuals who commit this particular kind of random terrorism. Moody got a lot of press for killing Judge Vance. This piece gives a lot of information on him. His background, prior criminal acts, etc. Moody got a lot of press for killing Judge Vance. This piece gives a lot of information on him. His background, prior criminal acts, etc.  lawfare: When an attempted murder charge against him in 1983 ended in a hung jury, he sued the three men he was accused of trying to kill, two sheriff's officials and a prosecutor, charging they maliciously prosecuted him.  And since becoming a suspect in the bomb case, he has filed a barrage of motions and legal actions, including challenges to search warrants and a criminal mischief complaint he filed against F.B.I. agents investigating him. 1953  enlisted in the Army, serving as a message traffic analyst, a specialist trained to analyze an enemy's transmission by radio, teletype or Morse code. He entered the Army reserves in 1956, and after three years in the reserves, he joined the Air Force for two years. Oct. 19, 1972, he was acquitted of building the bomb but convicted of possessing it. He was sentenced to five years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. After the conviction on the bomb charge, he and his wife were divorced. started scam book publishing company... 
•  numerous complaints from people who said they paid money to his company but got nothing in return. At one point, officials say, his business was generating as many as 150 inquiries a day.  In 1983, postal inspectors recommended prosecuting Mr. Moody for mail fraud, but the United States Attorney never did so. tried to kill 3 men in boat  Mr. Moody had taken out $750,000 in life insurance on each man, payable to the company, in which Mr. Moody was the only shareholder.  has no history of racial animus, bomb that failed to explode at the Jacksonville office of the N.A.A.C.P. and racially abusive letters taking credit for the attacks seemed to indicate a racial element to the bombs. may have wanted to attack the court and used the racial attacks and letters only as a diversion to turn attention elsewhere.