Most importantly, David provided letters and documents written by his brother. One stood out: David Kaczynski described his troubled brother Ted, who had grown up in Chicago, taught at the University of California at Berkeley (where two of the bombs had been placed), then lived for a time in Salt Lake City before settling permanently into the primitive 10’ x 14’ cabin that the brothers had constructed near Lincoln, Montana. After much debate about the wisdom of “giving in to terrorists,” FBI Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno approved the task force’s recommendation to publish the essay in hopes that a reader could identify the author.Īfter the manifesto appeared in The Washington Post, thousands of people suggested possible suspects. The Unabomber sent us a 35,000 word essay claiming to explain his motives and views of the ills of modern society. Even the gender was not certain: although investigators believed the bomber was most likely male, they also investigated several female suspects. His occupation proved more elusive, with theories ranging from aircraft mechanic to scientist. We felt confident that the Unabomber had been raised in Chicago and later lived in the Salt Lake City and San Francisco areas. And the victims, investigators later learned, were chosen randomly from library research. These efforts proved of little use in identifying the bomber, who took pains to leave no forensic evidence, building his bombs essentially from “scrap” materials available almost anywhere.
In search of clues, the team made every possible forensic examination of recovered bomb components and studied the lives of victims in minute detail. The task force would grow to more than 150 full-time investigators, analysts, and others. Postal Inspection Service was formed to investigate the “UNABOM” case, code-named for the UNiversity and Airline BOMbing targets involved. In 1979, an FBI-led task force that included the ATF and U.S.
Along the way, he sowed fear and panic, even threatening to blow up airliners in flight. Over the next 17 years, he mailed or hand delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans and injured nearly two dozen more. 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.
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