The South County car bomber was a person (or persons) who terrorized south
St. Louis County, Missouri
St. Louis County is located in the eastern-central portion of Missouri. It is bounded by the City of St. Louis and the Mississippi River to the east, the Missouri River to the north, and the Meramec River to the south. At the 2020 census, th ...
with a series of fatal
car bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Car bombs can be roughly divided ...
ings in 1977.
Event
Two people – Shirley Marie Flynn and Robert Curtis Jackson – were killed in bombings on October 18, 1977, and November 3, 1977, respectively.
A third victim, Ronald Sterghos, escaped injury in an earlier attack on October 7, 1977.
[ The bombings have been described as random,][ and some investigators believed that they were the work of a deranged individual.][ Some authorities have, however, noted similarities between the St. Louis County bombings and a car bombing on March 7, 1978, in ]Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah ( ) is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky. The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missour ...
in which William Ohlhausen, who had been Shirley Flynn's boyfriend, was seriously injured.[
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See also
*List of fugitives from justice who disappeared
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*List of unsolved murders
These lists of unsolved murders include notable cases where victims were murdered in unknown circumstances.
* List of unsolved murders (before 1900)
* List of unsolved murders (1900–1979)
* List of unsolved murders (1980–1999)
* List of unsol ...
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