Mark Hofmann “immediately” came to mind when former Salt Lake City Mayor Palmer DePaulis saw news coverage of a string of bombings in Austin, Texas.
It’s been 33 years since Hofmann killed two people in Salt Lake City with packages containing pipe bombs, injuring himself when one went off in his car.
DePaulis, who was mayor at the time, recalls the tense response from a community gripped by fear. Though the bombings lasted two days, it felt much longer.
“It seemed to everyone a long time because of the sense of unease,” DePaulis told The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday.