[3] It turned out to be a homemade pipe bomb that exploded in front of her, tearing up her hand, thigh and shoulder, and sending scrap metal into her eye.

[2][4] On December 16, 1989, federal judge Robert Vance was assassinated at his home in Mountain Brook, Alabama, when he opened a package containing a makeshift pipe bomb.

[2][6] Moody was charged with the murders of Judge Vance and of Robert E. Robinson, a black civil-rights attorney based in Savannah, Georgia, who had been killed in a separate explosion at his office two days later on Monday, December 18, 1989.

[1] Moody was also charged with mailing bombs that were defused at the Eleventh Circuit Court's headquarters in Atlanta and at the Jacksonville, Florida, office of Willye Dennis of the NAACP.

[7] Louis J. Freeh, who prosecuted the federal case at Robert Mueller’s behest, said that the bombings at the offices of both Robinson and the NAACP were meant to deflect attention away from Moody.

[1][6] After a successful prosecution by special prosecutors Louis Freeh and Howard Shapiro, Moody was convicted on all counts.