The Final Trace

Murdered: The Blount Family


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📍Lake Worth, Texas.


🎧 Chapter 23: The Final Trace of The Blount Family


A briefcase.
A knock at the door.
A Thanksgiving night turned to fire and chaos.

The 1985 bombing of the Blount family remains one of Texas’s most haunting unsolved mysteries — a case built on rumors, shattered evidence, and a suspect who walked free after ten years on death row.

Was it revenge? A mistake? Or something darker?
The truth still hides in the smoke.


Sources & Readings:

  • “12-year probe into briefcase blast at Texas home finally yields an arrest” — Deseret News. Deseret News
    https://www.deseret.com/1997/12/6/19349732/12-year-probe-into-briefcase-blast-at-texas-home-finally-yields-an-arrest/

  • “Michael Roy Toney” — Wikipedia entry. Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roy_Toney

  • “Inmate on death row for Fort Worth bombing freed” — Chron.com / Associated Press. Chron
    https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Inmate-on-death-row-for-Fort-Worth-bombing-freed-1737069.php

  • “Death penalty news — Texas” — TCADP (Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty). TCADP
    https://tcadp.org/2008/11/24/death-penalty-news-texas-252/

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