About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "Haywire" from Criminal covers the 1975 bombing at LaGuardia Airport, an attack that has never been solved. Two days before New Year's Eve that year, a bomb exploded at the airport, injuring 75 people and killing 11. Decades later, no one has been charged, and the case remains officially unresolved.
The episode draws on reporting by Elon Green, who wrote "The Forgotten Bombing of LaGuardia Airport" for Slate Magazine, as well as Bryan Burrough's book Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, which situates the bombing within a broader era of underground political violence in the United States.
Hosts and release
Criminal is hosted by Phoebe Judge, with Lauren Spohrer producing. The show is a prize-winning true crime podcast that explores stories of people who have committed wrongdoing, been victims of wrongdoing, or found themselves in the gray area between the two. It has been publishing weekly episodes, every Friday, since January 2014, out of the United States. This episode, number 386 and titled "Haywire," runs 41 minutes and centers on the attack carried out in New York City, examining both the human toll of the bombing and the historical context of the unsolved case.
