Send us Fan Mail Springdale Police Lt. Karl Martens turns the key, presses the brake, and his truck erupts. He survives. The case nearly disappears. On February 24, 1972, someone tried to kill a police lieutenant in Springdale, Arkansas, with a bomb planted beneath his vehicle. More than fifty years later, no one has ever been convicted. We set out to understand what happened, why the bombing received so little lasting attention, and what the surviving records can still tell us. Along the way...