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- Official Detective Investigator: A dread feeling of impending disaster had gripped the entire city of Rockford, Illinois when I first arrived to investigate for Official Detective Magazine the bombing terror that was plaguing the state. It began with the dull thud of a small explosion which, over the next three months, developed into disastrous proportions. There was no crime pattern, there was no apparent motive and, worst of all, there was no suspect.