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George Metesky  

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  • aka the Mad Bomber During the 1940s and 1950s, George Metesky, known at the time only as the “Mad Bomber,” set more than 30 bombs in the New York area. The 16-year hunt for the Mad Bomber was solved using one of the first applications of criminal profiling. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Metesky, George (1904–1994)]

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