“If you can hear this message, evacuate now”
Sounds like a woman recorded that message. I wonder if police can match it with voice printing?
They tried to blow up Hooters. 
Now that’s going too far. Where’s a thirsty guy supposed to get a bad sandwich surrounded by tight Spandex and nylon?
Seriously, I feel bad for all the employees of those businesses. They’ll be unemployed for quite awhile. Some of the businesses may never reopen. The buildings may not be structurly sound.
I saw a video earlier from WTVF where they interviewed a woman who’s home was directly across the street from where the RV was parked. She is the person who apparently placed the initial call about shots fired. It’s an interview that you should be able to watch at this link.
An interesting thing I took away from the interview was this - after the explosion she and her husband both feel the gunshots were very possibly a recording as well. They were so loud and were repeated three times several minutes apart in the same pattern is part of why they feel this way.
Really weird weird weird.
I’ve also heard a theory that the gunshots (recordings?) were to draw the police in as the actual targets, but it didn’t work.
I am a bit surprised something this small had any impact at all on the communications system. This makes me wonder how prepared we are for something big, like an earthquake or computer virus.
It sounded to me like a canned warning.
I wonder if some kind of targeted sabotage happened beforehand.
I would be truly shocked if that was the bomber’s voice.
If they can find a voice file, and find out who downloaded it, this may lead them to whoever did this.
Maybe.
Listening to it I think it is a sampled recording from something else and not the perpetrator’s voice.
But I don’t know and doubtless the FBI are figuring out who the person in the recording was and will go have a talk with her.
“Finding who did this” is hardly an issue at all. It is not as if there is a lack of clues. The identity of the bomber will be known in hours. Now, figuring out why someone did this will be a bit of a head-scratcher I suppose.
That’s my thought. It sounds like something that might have been recorded (but hopefully, never used) for places like airports, malls, and so on. Much like, “The white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only,” and “Please have your ID and boarding pass ready to show at the security checkpoint” are pre-recorded and played intermittently. You hope to never use “Evacuate now,” spoken in a clear, calm voice, but it’s ready in case you need it.
To be honest, it sounded like a synthesized voice to me, the inflections are weird. Probably produced by the type of program you could script sending statements to, that it’d translate into speech. I’d be surprised to find it’s a recording of a human.
Just about twenty-four hours since the attack. I would have expected more information about the bomber by now.
Might be that all that’s left of the bomber are those “pieces of tissue, possibly human” that they found.
If there was a security cam that caught the explosion, did it also record when the RV pulled up and parked - and if so did it record anyone getting out of that RV and going away? I don’t recall seeing that mentioned in any of the articles, unless I just glossed over it because I was skimming to catch up (didn’t see the news until last night late)
If there was someone near that blast, they are nothing but mince. But I suppose mince is “tissue,” and it will give up DNA. The vehicle is a huge clue. A vehicle is identifiable because of numbers cast onto its parts. A bomb will not efface that information.
So we got a vehicle ID & DNA. What more would anyone need?
I bet at least one cel phone blinked out at the moment of detonation. That would also help.
DNA only helps you if you happen to have that person’s DNA on file for some reason, or for positive ID if you can find a matching sample or close relative to compare it to, but you need to already have a suspect for that.
ETA: also, in the real world, DNA matching actually takes a while, sometimes days.
A vehicle can be rented, which is traceable, but takes a bit longer. Or it can be stolen, in which case it’s probably a dead end.
You would be surprised how many people’s DNA are on file. Add to that all the relatives of those who served in the military or who were arrested. As for how fast, we have seen cases of less than 24-hours.
But of course this will play out. I just thought it would have played out already.
In particular, RVs (motor homes) are rented. Many by small mom and pop operations that may not be as diligent with ensuring the renter’s identification is complete, particularly if they are paying cash. My guess is that they will get better leads from people who saw that vehicle in the days and hours before the explosion than the VIN will reveal.
You may recall that the World Trade Center bomb was in a rented truck. The police staked out the retail operation and arrested the guy who came to get the deposit back after it was destroyed in the blast.