He was the most wanted for almost two decades, intelligent, methodical and careful. He alone from a remote Montana cabin it put all American intelligence in check.
Ted Kaczynski, better known as ‘Unabomber’, passed 17 years shipping packages with homemade bombs. He made them himself. Its recipients were universities, airlines, authorities … and anyone who promoted technology. Because this and the system were his biggest enemies.
A Sacramento computer salesman was his first fatality. In total, ‘Unabomber’ killed three people and wounded about twenty while the FBI searched for him relentlessly and without leads.
A gifted mathematician, graduated from Harvard, ‘Unabomber’ sent his bombs each time from a different place and he also did not associate with anyone. His identity was a mystery to an entire country and stopping him was a matter of state.
It was only possible thanks to a document that he wrote himself. He sent it to the New York Times. It was his manifesto, in which he expressed his anti-system ideas and his rejection of industrialization. He blackmailed the newspaper and got it published without knowing that he was giving himself away because he had written a phrase that his brother identified: “You can’t eat the cake and still have it.”
A few days later, the FBI detained him at his cabin. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to eight life sentences. Now, after spending 20 years in a maximum security prison, he has been transferred to a medical prison.
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