Mystery Atlas1983 Circleville Bus-Route Booby Trap
A loaded handgun wired to fire when a taunting roadside sign was disturbed, discovered by Mary Gillispie along her school-bus route near Circleville, Ohio, on 7 February 1983. The gun was traced to Paul Freshour, whose conviction for attempted murder followed later that year.
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- The Circleville Letters1976-1994
1983 Circleville Bus-Route Booby Trap is part of The Circleville Letters — The booby trap was the letter-writing campaign's most violent escalation, staged along the same bus route the letters had long referenced.
People
- Paul Freshourdied 2012
1983 Circleville Bus-Route Booby Trap had as an accused suspect Paul Freshour — Convicted in October 1983 of attempted murder after the gun used in the booby trap was traced to him — a documented legal fact, distinct from the separately disputed question of who wrote the letters.
1983 Circleville Bus-Route Booby Trap targeted Mary Gillispie.