'Miserable' father used homemade bomb in Allentown car explosion to kill son, friend
Source: NBC News
The deadly car explosion in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Saturday that killed three people, including a toddler, was a targeted murder-suicide by a depressed father, authorities said early Thursday.
Jacob Schmoyer killed his 2-year-old son, Jonathan and friend David Halman, 66, when he used a homemade explosive device inside his car on Saturday. A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ said in a press conference that Schmoyer sent letters to the Allentown Police Department outlining his plans to kill both Halman and his son.
The Allentown Police Department first received a letter from Schmoyer, 26, on Tuesday, after the explosion and then received another three the following day. Robinson told reporters Thursday Schmoyer's letters outlined the materials and construction of the device he intended to use as well as his decision to kill Halman and his son.
"He was miserable. Basically, the four letters describe a miserable life, he was unhappy himself," Don Robinson, the special agent in charge at the ATF Philadelphia field division told reporters Thursday. "I don't know if shame is too strong of a word because of what he did later, but he admitted to a lot of criminal acts, he didn't think it was going to get any better. There was a lot of hatred there, and obviously, some directed at Mr. Halman and his son."
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What an asshole.
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since Allentown is not that far from us and as the details came out, it was sad as hell to hear that a little one died in the car.
The initial reports were that there were "3 bodies" in the car. It was bad enough that you had a "car explosion" as it was. 
