NEW: Karlin Younger's wine-stained sweater was still wet when she left her laundry room early in the afternoon of January 6, leaned into the gate of an alley, and caught a glimpse of something metallic by the garbage bin. ($) by @cryanbarber businessinsider.com/who-found-janu…
Thinking someone had simply missed the container, she stopped to recycle the mystery object. "Because I'm about that life," she said.
Only as Younger drew closer did she notice the caps at both ends. And the timer.
Only as Younger drew closer did she notice the caps at both ends. And the timer.
"You're just staring at it, and you're like, 'Okay, it's definitely metal.' But there's like wires attached to it, and there's a timer attached to it. What am I looking at? It's not immediately obvious because you're just really, really not expecting anything," Younger recalled.
Younger spoke to Insider for its comprehensive oral history of the events surrounding the pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol. The pipe bomb she found remains one of many lingering mysteries of January 6. businessinsider.com/january-6-oral…
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