Luke Helder Luke Helder Michael Howard (disambiguation) Category="American terrorists"Lucas John Helder, born May 5 1981, was a Wisconsin college student and Minnesota resident, earned notoriety as the midwestern pipe-bomber of May 2002. Helder tried to replicate a Smiley face on the US map in his pattern of pipe bombs. His bombs were found in Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, Texas and Colorado. Helder was captured before he completed the smile itself. When arrested he was wearing a Nirvana tee-shirt and had a smile on his face.

Luke Helder makes reference to Reincarnation, and seems to believe that death of the flesh and body isn't the end of existence. He once wrote in an essay to the Badger Herald of the University of Wisconsin: "There is no such thing as death".

In April 2004 a federal judge found Helder incompetent to stand trial. While the judge could free Helder if doctors find he is not a threat to society, legal experts doubt this possibility, in consideration of the violent nature of his crime. Luke Helder, inmate #36460-048, remains in a federal medical center in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Helder fronted a rock band with two friends call 'Apathy'.