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With the bomber still out there and hoax, and one an actual bomb
becoming more brazen, the FBI and that bomb techs disabled be-
its partners continued to ramp up
fore it went off.
the investigation.
The FBI brought in profilers, ana- Evidence clearly linked the
lysts, bomb experts, and crisis re- bombs together.
sponse teams from the Bureau’s Crit-
A break in the case came when local
ical Incident Response Group  to
police talked to a man who said he
South Carolina to assist in the effort.
knew someone who had been prac-
Two more devices were found ticing building bombs in his home.
in the subsequent days: one a
Wesley Dallas Ayers (Courtesy of the Anderson County Sheriff’s
Office)
After additional in-
vestigation, the JTTF
quickly closed in on
the man, Wesley
“Dallas” Ayers, 26,
who lived very close
to the site of the
bombings.
After
gathering
enough evidence
for a judge to ap-
prove a search war-
rant, investigators
searched
Ayers’
home that he shared
with his girlfriend.
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