The Press: Money Pays Off

A series of college-campus pipe bombings had left Detroit police clueless and frustrated. Then a neatly typed letter turned up, naming Eileen Margaret Orr, 20, and Mark Peter Stevens, 21, as the bombers; more explosives, the letter said, could be found in the Orr suburban home. Last week police arrested the pair, charged them with a bombing at Oakland Community College, and reported finding some 20 sticks of dynamite concealed in a closet of the house.

The fruitful letter came not to police but to the Secret Witness program of the Detroit News,...

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