The Blount Family Bombing Part One: Joe, Angela, and Michael

The Blount Family Bombing Part One: Joe, Angela, and Michael

On Thanksgiving night in 1985, Joe and Susan Blount were spending the holiday with their children, teenagers Angela and Robert, at their home in the Hilltop Mobile Home Park outside Fort Worth. Joining them for dinner were Joe’s brother, Ray, and Ray’s teenage son, Michael Columbus.

Later that evening, Ray left, Susan went to lie down, and Joe, Angela, Robert, and Michael drove to a nearby convenience store for ice cream and beer. While they were gone, someone knocked at the Blount’s door, but when Susan looked outside, she saw no one. When the others returned about twenty minutes later, they discovered a brown leather briefcase sitting on the top step outside the front door and took it inside.

At approximately 9:15 p.m., an explosion ripped through the mobile home, killing Joe Blount, Angela Blount, and Michael Columbus instantly. Robert was blown through the front door and was badly burned, while Susan escaped from the rear portion of the burning trailer unharmed, at least physically.

Investigators soon determined that the explosion was not an accident. Someone had constructed a bomb, concealed it inside the briefcase, and deliberately left it outside the Blount family’s home. But determining who left it there and who the bomb was actually intended to kill would prove far more difficult.

More than forty years later, the questions remain unanswered.

If you have any information about the murders of Robert and Angela Blount and Michael Columbus, please call the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tipline at (888) 283-8477.

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