Mad Bomber of New York

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover George Metesky — the Mad Bomber of New York City, the man who spent sixteen years planting homemade pipe bombs in movie theaters, phone booths, and transit terminals all over Manhattan while the NYPD ran itself in circles trying to find him. From 1940 to 1956, Metesky planted over thirty devices, wrote taunting letters to the press, and never killed a single person — and we'll get into why that appears to have been entirely by design. What makes this case genuinely fascinating is how it ended: not through detective work, but through a criminal psychologist named James Brussel who studied the case files and produced a profile so precise it named the suspect's suit style. We'll break down how a workplace grudge against Consolidated Edison curdled into a sixteen-year obsession, how the newspapers that spent years mocking the police ultimately handed them their man, and how Brussel's work on this case laid the foundation for modern criminal profiling as we know it today. Sponsored by BetterHelp: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mad Bomber of New York is an episode from Necronomipod by Cool Down Media.

This episode is 79:33 long.

This episode was published on Mar 22, 2026.

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