Corrections? He couldn't be the Unabomber. And the victims, investigators later learned, were chosen randomly from library research. by. Amazon.com: Theodore Kaczynski: Books Postal Inspection Service was formed. On January8, 1998, he asked to dismiss his lawyers and hire Tony Serra as his counsel; Serra had agreed not to use an insanity defense and instead promised to base a defense on Kaczynski's anti-technology views. A lock () or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Kaczynski later described this as a pivotal event: previously he had socialized with his peers and was even a leader, but after skipping ahead of them he felt he did not fit in with the older children, who bullied him. [50][59], Kaczynski's next two bombs targeted people at the University of California, Berkeley. My full attention is on the case, and we will proceed accordingly, he said. Kaczynski returned to his cabin in Montana and continued his bombing campaign, primarily targeting universities. The Unabomber is the nickname given to American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who conducted a 17-year series of attacks, using mail bombs to target academics . How do you catch a twisted genius who aspires to be the perfect, anonymous killerwho builds untraceable bombs and delivers them to random targets, who leaves false clues to throw off authorities, who lives like a recluse in the mountains of Montana and tells no one of his secret crimes? From the Unabomber to the Incels: Angry Young Men on Campus [117] Some contemporary authors suggested that multiple people, most notably Kaczynski's brother and mother, purposely spread the image of Kaczynski as mentally ill with the aim to save him from execution. Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, nicknamed the "Unabomber," killed and injured several people from 1978 to 1995 using mail bombs. [47][55][56] He sent one bomb embedded in a copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers. Anyone can read what you share. [41] Kaczynski's cabin was described by a census taker in the 1990 census as containing a bed, two chairs, storage trunks, a gas stove, and lots of books. [133][135] In 2012, Kaczynski responded to the Harvard Alumni Association's directory inquiry for the fiftieth reunion of the class of 1962; he listed his occupation as "prisoner" and his eight life sentences as "awards". In 1979, an FBI-led task force that included the ATF and U.S. A search revealed a cache of bomb components, 40,000 hand-written journal pages that included bomb-making experiments, descriptions of the Unabomber crimes and one live bomb. When I say Kaczynski was. Kaczynski had never been an especially social person, and at Berkeley he developed a disdain for technology and many of the trappings of modern life.