THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, December 15, 1994 TAG: 9412150409
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
A classroom building at the College of William and Mary was evacuated after an economics professor received a package with a return address he did not recognize.
A state police bomb squad was summoned from Chesapeake and detonated the package Tuesday. The Daily Press of Newport News quoted an unidentified police source as saying the package contained a tuxedo.
The professor, Carl Moody, told police he became concerned when he didn't recognize the return address.
Moody said he was leery partly because of a serial bomber who authorities believe killed an advertising executive in New Jersey over the weekend. The FBI theorizes that the so-called ``UNABOM'' bomber is responsible for more than a dozen mail bombs over the past 16 years, many sent to college professors.
The package was delivered to the economics department office in Morton Hall. Assistant economics professor Lynne Kiesling said the package bore a return address sticker for a couple in Nevada.
Moody called campus police shortly after 2 p.m.
Dozens of students taking final exams in the building were evacuated to nearby buildings to finish their exams, school spokesman Ray Betzner said.
The bomb squad from Chesapeake arrived about 4:40 p.m., but it couldn't determine what was inside the package by using X-rays. The package was detonated about 6:10 p.m., Betzner said. by CNB