The man that the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski came to our attention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university. Over the next 17 years, he mailed or hand delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans and injured 24 more. Along the way, he sowed fear and panic, even threatening to blow up airliners in flight.
However, for so long there was never enough, if any evidence to point the police in the right direction towards the Unabomber. This man had chosen his victims by randomly doing a library search on local people, then he just mailed them the bombs or he just dropped it off on their door steps.
Kaczynski, had been raised in Chicago and then later moved to Salt Lake City. His main career was a aircraft mechanic and later on became a scientist. The gender of the bomber was never certain but the police believed it to be a male. However they had also investigated many females as well.
The bang in the case happened in 1995. Kaczynski had sent a 35,000 word essay on why he liked doing what he did. The government questioned for a long time on what they wanted to do with this essay but they later decided to publish it in hopes that someone may be able to identify the author.
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On April 3, 1996—a dozen years ago this month—investigators arrested Kaczynski and combed his cabin. There, they found a wealth of bomb components; 40,000 handwritten journal pages that included bomb-making experiments and descriptions of Unabomber crimes; and one live bomb, ready for mailing.His new home is a "Supermax" prison in Colorado and in January 1998, he did plead guilty.
I feel that this is very interesting. i would love to be able to ask him what pushed him to his choices of doing that. I don't know about you but i feel it is pretty fascinating and horrible all at the same time. WOW!
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2008/april/unabomber_042408
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