In 2006, the tape was subjected to modern voice analysis and vocal expert Tom Owen determined that Peak did not make the emergency call. In 2007, Owen gave testimony in Douglas County District Court that included a detailed phrase-by-phrase courtroom analysis of the fatal call.
No date for a decision by the Nebraska Supreme Court has been set. Poindexter and Langa remain imprisoned at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary. Duane Peak, the confessed bomber, was freed after 33 months of juvenile detention and lives in the state of Washington a free man. The unknown caller whose deep voice opened the court hearing has never been identified and has not been brought to justice. Larry Minard, the father of five young children, was buried on what would have been his thirtieth birthday.
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