December twenty ninth, nineteen seventy five, LaGuardia Airport.

The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys.

Then at six thirty three pm, everything changed.

A bomb went off with such force that it ripped apart the ground level locker room and baggage area of the main terminal.

Eleven people lost their lives and seventy five others were injured.

The injured were being loaded into ambulances, just a chaotic scene.

In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged and it was here to stay.

Terrorism, law and order criminal justice system is back in season two.

Were turning our focus to a threat that hides and plain sight, that's harder to predict and even harder to stop.

That was not just a small bomb that turned out to be twenty two sticks of dynamite.

They left one fingerprints in their one hundred and thirty bombings.

We're exploring some of the most destructive acts of terror in America's modern age.

It created a crater half the size of a football field.

It registered three point two on the Richter scale like an earthquake.

I was a tremendous roar, and how it shaped the playbook we still use today.

She put together that drawing of Timothy McVeigh.

Within an hour, we've got McVeagh.

Identified from investigators on the front lines.

One of the guys jumps up on the hood of the armored car and opens fire into the windows.

I then returned fire with my shotgun to everyday people whose lives changed in an instant.

That's when the bomb went off.

It was just this extremely loud roaring in my head.

It was devastating to go one minute from celebrating your ninth birthday with your dad to him being dead for no reason.

Terrorism never sleeps, but neither do the people fighting it.

I'm Aniseega Nicolazzi and from Wolf Entertainment and iHeart Podcasts.

This is Law and Order Criminal Justice System Season two.

The first two episodes drop on August twenty first listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.