Clues to Nashville bombing include Petula Clark’s haunting song, asking about the location

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) – Now that the researchers have confirmed that Nashville bomber, Anthony Warner, was killed in the fiery Christmas Day explosion, their attention is turning to the “why.”

Why would anyone commit such a heinous act?

Researchers have searched hundreds, even thousands of clues to answer the question.

One possible clue, possibly pointing to Warner’s mental state, came when police revealed on Sunday morning that a terrifying song was playing from Warner’s explosive-filled camper before the explosion.

That song, Petula Clark’s 1964 recording of “Downtown”, sounds melancholic.

“When you’re alone and life makes you lonely, you can always go to town,” the song begins.

“If you’re worried, all the noise and rush seems to help you, I know, downtown.”

The song is also sung in honor of a rogue Vietnam bombing in the 1991 war movie Flight of the Intruder.

But questions also increasingly focused on the downtown location the bomber chose, just outside an AT&T switching station.

The explosion severely damaged the facility, disabling telephone and Internet service in a large area.

On CBS’s Face the nationNashville Mayor John Cooper suggested on Sunday that the AT&T facility itself may have been targeted.

“To all of us on the ground, it feels like there must be a connection to the AT&T facility and the location of the bombing,” Cooper said.

The phone giant was criticized five years ago for its role in helping the US spy on the Internet, a role exposed by Edward Snowden’s leakage of National Security Agency documents.

But Tennessee Safety Commissioner Jeff Long had also recently warned of violence related to wild conspiracy theories blaming 5G cellular technology for spreading COVID-19.

“There are some people who believe that the 5G network is somehow linked to the coronavirus,” Long said during budget hearings for Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.

“They’ve caused destruction to some of the 5G tower sites. We’ve had several in the Memphis area and some of our others. And we’ve had three Tennessee Highway Patrol towers that have been destroyed.”

Researchers have confirmed that this is one of the areas they are investigating.

In May, US Homeland Security warned, “We are assessing conspiracy theories linking the spread of COVID-19 to the expansion of the 5G cellular network are provoking attacks on communications infrastructure worldwide and that these threats are likely to increase as the disease persists. spread., including calls for violence against telecom workers.

A conspiracy theory that has emerged since the bombing is that the AT&T building contained voting machines that could change the outcome of the presidential election.

There is no evidence that all of this is true.

So far, no public manifesto has come out that gives us definitive insight into Warner’s intentions.