who blew up the bus in veronica mars
Cassidy Casablancas In the second season finale, "Not Pictured", it is revealed that he was among the boys molested by Woody Goodman. Veronica discovers that Cassidy set up the bus crash to kill Woody's other victims, who intended to come forward. He had planted the rat on the bus so that some of the kids (including himself) would plan for another ride back to school, giving him a perfect view of the bus and thus enabling him to crash it at the right moment by detonating the explosives he had planted via cellphone. Cassidy, who was in charge of the special effects for his friend Hart Hanson's war movies, had gotten the explosives from his Dad's mechanic Curly Moran, Aaron Echolls' former stuntman. He then proceeded to frame Moran for the bus crash. The PCHers beat up Curly, but Cassidy realized they would not kill him and finished the job himself by running him over with his car. He then wrote Veronica Mars' name on Curly's hand and dropped the corpse in the water, effectively sending the investigation in the wrong direction.