American Homicide - Introducing: Law & Order: Criminal Justice System S2

Episode Date: August 23, 2025

Law & Order: Criminal Justice System is back with Season Two, turning its focus to a threat that hides in plain sight, harder to predict and even harder to stop: terrorism. Hear the real stories from those who lived it, worked it, and risked everything to confront it. Listen here and subscribe to Law & Order: Criminal Justice System S2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush. Parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed. A bomb went off with such force that it ripped apart the ground-level locker room and baggage area of the main terminal. Eleven people lost their lives and 75 others were. injured. The injured were being loaded into ambulances, just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, and it was here to stay. Terrorism.

Law and order, criminal justice system is back. In season two, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight. That's harder to predict and even harder to stop. That was not just a small bomb. It turned out to be 22 sticks of dynamite. They left one fingerprint in their 130 bombings. We're exploring some of the most destructive acts of terror in America's modern age. It created a crate of half the size of a football field. It registered 3.2 on the Richter scale, like an earthquake. It was a tremendous roar.

And how it shaped the playbook we still use today. She put together that drawing of Timothy McVeigh within an hour. We've got McVeigh identified. From investigators on the front lines. One of the guys jumps up on the hood of the armored car and opens fire into the windows. I then return fire with my shotgun. To everyday people whose lives changed in an instant. That's when the bomb went off.

It was just this extremely loud, roaring in my head. It was devastating to go one minute from celebrating your ninth birthday with your dad to him being dead for no reason. Terrorism never sleeps, but neither do the people. fighting it. I'm Anasiga Nikolazi and from Wolf Entertainment and IHeart Podcasts. This is Law and Order Criminal Justice System, Season 2. Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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