Detective Jack Swanson withheld stolen dynamite arrests from jury in 'Omaha Two' bombing case

"Two and a half by 16-inch.  This is Red Cross du Pont 50 percent strength dynamite….[W]hen these individuals were arrested in July, I called back and talked to the owner and the manager of Quick Supply and described the dynamite….He said if this was 2 ½  by 16-inch sticks, he was almost positive it had to be their dynamite….Quick Supply ordered a thousand pounds of dynamite on a special order from the du Pont Company specifying 16 inches long and 2 ½ inches in diameter.  This, as I understand it, is an unusually large size of dynamite to be used in quarries for blasting purposes.  Sergeant Gladson checked back with the manufacturer of the dynamite, and they told him that was the only shipment of that size dynamite in the year 1970."

Larry  Minard, father of five young children, was buried on what would have been his 30th birthday.

Duane Peak, the confessed bomber, walked free after a couple of years of juvenile detention for his implication of the two Panther leaders.  The anonymous caller who set the lethal trap was never identified or apprehended following J. Edgar Hoover's intervention in the case and Peak was allowed to claim he made the call without a voice analysis to substantiate his claim.  Vocal expert Tom Owen has since concluded that Peak did not make the fatal call.

The four men with dynamite, Raleigh House, Luther Payne, Lamont Mitchell and Conrad Gray all ended up with their charges dismissed.

Mondo we Langa denies having any dynamite in his basement and both he and Ed Poindexter continue to deny any involvement in Minard's murder.  Both men are imprisoned with life sentences at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.  Poindexter has a new trial request pending before the Nebraska Supreme Court over withheld evidence and conflicting police testimony.  No date for a decision has been announced.

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