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   November 12th - Home in Indianapolis mysteriously explodes taking out a home while the home owner and her boyfriend where conveniently away for the night at a casino after dropping their teenage daughter off at a friends house and leaving their cat at a kennel. The explosion was so powerful it took out the neighbors home killing two people inside. source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/11/us/in...lode/index.html Gas Line break and meth lab are instantly ruled out and FBI and ATF are called in to help. http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-sour...,2561992.column Local Gas company confirms it was not a broken gas line that caused the explosion. Investigator begin to look into possible natural gas appliances. source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...estigators?lite The internet is lighting up with rumors that the nighttime blast was the work of a CIA Predator drone that for unclear reasons had been programmed to take out two Indianapolis-based US military resource and payroll offices. Only the drone’s missiles deviated from their flight courses, striking the homes off of Fieldfare Way, instead. http://www.vice.com/read/did-a-cia-...in-indianapolis The explosion was so strong near by earthquake sensors detected the explosion http://www.indystar.com/article/201...polis-explosion Ex-husband suspects faulty furnace led to massive Indianapolis explosion. This leads to some conflicting stories between the home owner and her ex-husband. http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...polis-explosion November 13th - Homeowner at center of explosion. It is discovered the home owner is having serious financial issues. She told Eyewitness News, after her divorce, her house was up for sale, but she decided to take it off the market and worked extra hours and two jobs to keep it and make the mortgage payments. http://www.wthr.com/story/20089449/...house-explosion quote:Shirley had also tried to sell the house last summer, valued at $230,000, earlier this year after she and her now ex-husband had filed for bankruptcy for $260,000, $30,000 more then the house was worth.. quote:Among their liabilities were two mortgages on the Fieldfare Way house, on which they owed a total of $225,794. The house's value was listed as $230,000, according to court records. quote:The short sale was going to be for around $149,000, but a source said the bank wanted $30,000 cash on top of the short sale price to accept the short sale agreement. November 16th - Explosion damage estimate: $4.4 million. 86 homes are damaged and 32 of those homes foundation shifted by the explosion and have to be torn down automatically because its unsafe. http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ate-4-4-million November 19th - Police: House explosion was not an accident quote:Fox59 News has learned that Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives have determined that the Nov. 10 explosion at the Richmond Hill subdivision was an intentional act. “A criminal homicide investigation” is how police are referring to the probe. The Indianapolis Fire Department still considers this a fire investigation. Richmond Hill residents will be advised of the decision Monday during a 6 p.m. meeting at Southport Presbyterian Church. A bunch of locals have suggested the boyfriend (Mark Leonard) was a con artist who has tried insurance scams in the past. Two weeks before the explosion there were posts on a dating website that said he has a reputation for using people for money, that he was working with another guy who ditched a woman after her insurance check came in and that they still owe her money, that he would take ladies to casinos and pretend his wallet was stolen so his dates would give him more cash to gamble, etc. That page has been removed but it is still on google cache from November 3rd. link to google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...n&ct=clnk&gl=us quote:"Mark is truly a freak. He uses date sites to scam woman out of money,and leverage what credit you may have. Him and his friends are all about what they can con still and take of any value, just to line there pockets. They have nothing, This one avoid at all cost .. He will cost you lots of debt." November 19th - There were posts on Facebook from a neighbor about seeing appliances and furniture being removed from the house in the week before the explosion, now the investigators are focusing on finding these things in the rubble. More good news for the duo--they were evidently able to get their two Harley Davidsons out of the garage not long before boom-boom. They are one lucky couple. This has not been confirmed by the media or the police at this time. Also news has come out that during the short sale of the home there was photos taken of the inside of the home. Law enforcement is looking to see what is missing in debris left from the explosion using those photos. November 20th - 2 in custody in connection to explosion quote:INDIANAPOLIS (WISH/WANE) - WISH-TV in Indianapolis is reporting that two people have been taken into custody in connection to the south side explosion that killed two people on Nov. 10. This keeps getting more interesting, the night of the explosion neighbors said they saw a white van leave the home. Well the boyfriend of the home owner happens to own and white van and the police have said they have found his white van and taken it it evidence. Word has gotten out that the two taken into custody have connections with the boyfriend and some property of the home owner was found inside the trailer. November 21 - Authorities question two men, serve search warrants in explosion identified. The two men taken into custody and questioned knew the boyfriend(Mark Leonard). One was his brother Bob Leonard, and the other was Mark Leonard's friend. The police and federal agents are getting closer to figuring out all the events that happen prior to the home explosion. http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-indi...,7944679.column November 21 - 29 homes damaged in Indianapolis explosion to be demolished. Why are they being torn down? Here is some simple goon explanations why they are tearing them down. http://www.wdrb.com/story/20159982/...o-be-demolished Aggressive pricing posted:But they MIGHT be damaged enough to fail at some point in the indeterminate future which would lead to a lawsuit worth more than the cost of the house, I'm sure someone with a calculator figured this out. Cryptic Edge posted:If they are moved on the foundation they have to be torn down because you can't set it back on the foundation. It's that or the house is literally a collapsing hazard. Meaning the house could loving fall down on the residents without warning. Lolie posted:Just because the homes look OK doesn't mean their structural integrity is sound. You can't see from the photos what damage has been done to load bearing walls, the foundations or any of the important but usually invisible things which make a dwelling safe to inhabit. Shock waves can cause a lot of damage which isn't visible at first glance and it's often irreparable. November 21 - Purdue University expert Sally Bane says deadly explosion needed serious detonation. Federal Investigators are now looking into the possibility that a remote detonator may have been used to set off the explosion. http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...ious-detonation November 27 - Demolition begins of homes in Indianapolis explosion. http://www.journalgazette.net/artic...EWS07/121129555 November 28 - Indianapolis explosion: Photos show white van parked at home 3 weeks before deadly blast. http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/na...t#ixzz2DcOXnL8n Decemember 21 - Homeowner, two others to face more than 100 charges in south side blast. quote:Homeowner Moncy Shirley and her boyfriend, Mark Leonard, and his brother, Bobby Leonard, Jr., were arrested by federal agents on the south side Friday morning. December 21 - The case qualifies for the death penalty or life without parole due to multiple deaths. quote:Curry said Shirley had recently increased the insurance coverage on her house to $300,000. The trio was hoping to cash in the insurance payments to pay off their sizeable debt. Curry said Robert Leonard took personal items, including photographs and financial documents, out of the house prior to the explosion. December 22 - Affidavit: Women say Richmond Hill blast suspect Mark Leonard has long history of scheming http://www.indystar.com/article/201...istory-scheming February 11th - Prosecutor seeks life without parole in Richmond Hill blast. http://www.indystar.com/article/201...mond-HIll-blast March 28th - Mark Leonard just got new charcges for attempting to hire an undercover ATF agent to kill a witness in exchange for $15,000. http://www.wthr.com/story/21817037/...-explosion-case stewdiny fucked around with this message at Mar 28, 2013 around 22:08 |
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Oh look, Meth Row.
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You can sorta make out the epicenter if you look at the debris. My money's also on meth lab. Who would bother bombing two houses?
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What the gently caress? E: Yeah I guess a meth lab accident could fit
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stewdiny posted:
So everything has been ruled out? 
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You said meth labs were ruled out, but the quoted text underneath doesn't really emphasize that.
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Could it have been a meth lab going up? EDIT: Look how slow I am.
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Search the wreckage for anything labeled 'VAMANOS PEST.'
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Great, first I find out at lunch about human spontaneous combustion, now I gotta be worried about things just randomly exploding? Why the hell was I born on this planet?!
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stewdiny posted:
There was a domestic gas boiler explosion in Oldham here in the UK not so long ago. It left 12 houses entirely destroyed and more were damaged beyond the point of safe habitation:  I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that this was a similar scenario.
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Obama's second term begins. Which republican voice did his drone strike silence?Dungeon Ecology posted:Search the wreckage for anything labeled 'VAMANOS PEST.'
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No evidence of meth lab or bomb found in explosion rubble quote:
http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-sour...,2561992.column
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I see 4 houses that look like they're hosed, the rest don't look too bad. Why are they tearing down 20 houses? Oh I guess the ones around it are pretty hosed up.
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Agent Provocatard posted:Great, first I find out at lunch about human spontaneous combustion, now I gotta be worried about things just randomly exploding? Why the hell was I born on this planet?! It's evolved into spontaneous human explosion. Expect more people to randomly detonate in churches, shopping malls, schools, nowhere is safe.
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A meth lab was ruled out. I live in Indiana and have been following this since it happened. Here's the most recent article from today: http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ast?odyssey=tab It seems like the homeowner may have had a faulty furnace and may have messed with it to "fix" it prior to the explosion. Also, the 12 year old girl said she smelled gas in the garage, but since the mom and boyfriend didn't smell it, they mostly ignored her.
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stewdiny posted:No evidence of meth lab or bomb found in explosion rubble
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Fallows posted:I see 4 houses that look like they're hosed, the rest don't look too bad. Why are they tearing down 20 houses? If the blast shifted them off their footings, they're automatically uninhabitable.
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Callisto posted:Also, the 12 year old girl said she smelled gas in the garage, but since the mom and boyfriend didn't smell it, they mostly ignored her. They dealt it, must've been a pretty big fart to cause that kind of carnage.
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I'm only a mile away from the explosion, and it's just pretty freaky to see something this nasty can happen even where I'm at.
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stewdiny posted:This explosion has Indianapolis on edge, everything that would of caused this explosion has been ruled out. "We tried nothing and it didn't work" -Police Sgt. Warbear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnpj7eGtTTE
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I forgot to mention the explosion was picked up by earthquake sensors too.quote:The explosion late Saturday that killed two people and damaged 80 homes on Indianapolis’ Southeastside was so strong it was detected on scientists’ earthquake sensors miles from the scene. http://www.indystar.com/article/201...polis-explosion stewdiny fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2012 around 00:33 |
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Wasn't this confirmed as a furnace or some other generally benign appliance malfunctioning and exploding?
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Fallows posted:I see 4 houses that look like they're hosed, the rest don't look too bad. Why are they tearing down 20 houses? It's an American neighborhood. They're tearing down the ones with busted windows.
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The mayor was trying to bulldoze the road.
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Rirse posted:I'm only a mile away from the explosion, and it's just pretty freaky to see something this nasty can happen even where I'm at.
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drat that Osama Bin Laden! He's terrorizing us from beyond the grave, I tell you!! 
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I figured it out! Invisible killdozer  !
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My bet it's probably some thing like an electrical transformer or a generator that somebody stuck between the houses there like a loving moron. I am sure its something unspectacular that blow up, which is even more worrisome then a bomb or a gaz leak.
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Hogburto posted:Get a side view of that side of the street. It's near impossible to get near it now, cops just got the roads just blocked off and gawkers just going everywhere to see it.
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Looks like 4 houses completely obliterated. Only 2 people found dead, so it's possible the other residents may know what happened.
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Boiled Water posted:I figured it out! Invisible killdozer Can't have been, there were fatalities.
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Does anyone see charred remnants of what could be several hundred pounds of popcorn in those photographs?
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Baboon Fiesta posted:There was a domestic gas boiler explosion in Oldham here in the UK not so long ago. It left 12 houses entirely destroyed and more were damaged beyond the point of safe habitation: Maybe. Gas boilers can be dangerous if not properly maintained. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnL8SipXT8 This one rocketed upwards, but exploding *outwards* would be hugely destructive. Spacedad fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2012 around 00:39 |
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I'd put  on it being caused by a leaking acetylene cylinder.
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Pvt Dancer posted:They dealt it, must've been a pretty big fart to cause that kind of carnage. Ahem, I believe the proverb indicates rather that she who smelt it...
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ijii posted:Looks like 4 houses completely obliterated. Only 2 people found dead, so it's possible the other residents may know what happened. If it was during the day most people have jobs and kids are usually at school. A bunch of other people were hurt.
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Ya know, there has never been a bad movie that featured a house blowing up. Whoever knows what happened to this house should secure the rights right away.
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Wasn't there an explosion like this in Indianapolis just a few days ago? And both of these happen so soon after Obama was reelected! I'm just asking questions here.Hogburto posted:Ya know, there has never been a bad movie that featured a house blowing up. Whoever knows what happened to this house should secure the rights right away. Parts: The Clonus Horror. Only good as an (excellent) MST3K episode. Awful otherwise.
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Hope it wasn't already posted, but I think it may be a meth lab. Hth. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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 Anyone know the names of who died? I swear I've been to that neighborhood before...
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