Bomber Made 25 Minute Video Confession On His Phone - Police Say It Reveals No Motive
Austin, Texas (CNN)As the Austin bomber sensed that authorities were closing in on him on Tuesday night, he took out his cell phone and recorded a 25-minute video confessing to building the explosive devices -- but didn't explain why he targeted his victims, interim Austin police Chief Brian Manley said.
"It is the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his life that led him to this point," the interim chief said. "I know everybody is interested in a motive and understanding why. And we're never going to be able to put a (rationale) behind these acts," Manley told reporters Wednesday night.
The video made by Mark Anthony Conditt, whose string of package bombs killed two people and wounded five in Texas, was found on his cell phone when police recovered his body this morning. The cell phone was in Conditt's possession at the time of his death, police said.
Manley says that Conditt did not mention any references to terror groups or bring up hate.
Conditt killed himself after police tried to stop him early Wednesday in what investigators described as an explosion inside his car.
News reports today indicate that Conditt was politically conservative, being opposed to gay rights, abortion, and taking other standard conservative political positions.
Obviously this doesnt make him a candidate to become a serial killer , and it appears he has left precious little of a social media trail. With the confession video not specifying a motive, it may never be known , or await the finding of some other indication.
I wonder if he stumbled onto some bomb building information and simply grew enthralled with it.
that might just be it.
One aspect of this that is rather interesting-- the motiveisunknown. And it may perhaps remain unknown.
And IIRC, the motive in the Los Vegas gun massacre is still unknown-- and strangely, it seems we will never known.