It was one 23-page document David provided to the FBI my copy was probably the sixth generation of a fax, but I could read it. On Kaczynski's sister-in-law seeing the published manifesto, recognizing the writing style, and, along with Kaczynski's brother, David, submitting another writing sample to the FBI for analysis The Two-Way Ted, What Have You Been Doing With Yourself? Unabomber, You Say?Īnd the first four bombings were either placed or mailed from Chicago, so it's always nice when you have a nexus that you can sort of compare here, and they match up. There was some reflection there of language uses, even regionalisms of the Chicago area. thought this writer of the manifesto had his roots in Chicago, Ill., because there was some terminology in there that was reflective of three or four newspapers in Chicago through the '30s, '40s and '50s. On how a linguistics professor, Roger Shuy, helped predict where the Unabomber was from And right away, that helped me age the author.
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And this is 1995, and these words were almost like Frank Sinatra language, or something you'd hear from a '50s movie or something. OK, what does he mean by that? He uses the word "negro" to refer to African-Americans. But before too long I'm picking up on some unusual language characteristics, like some archaic terms like "broad" and "chick" to denote women. I'm looking at this thing and I'm reading it two times, three times, four times. I said, "I want to devote my time and energy to looking at the language in this case," and let's see just what the heck I can make out of it.". On studying the language of the Unabomber's manifesto, which was titled "Industrial Society and its Future by FC" But in 1987 is when a witness inside a computer store looked out the window as the Unabomber was putting down one of his devices, and that's where that iconic composite sketch comes from and that was about the only real lead that the FBI or any agency had up until 1987 - that's nine years into this bombing campaign. This composite sketch was based on a 1987 spotting of the Unabomber. "And, of course, no fingerprints, no DNA - nothing like that," Fitzgerald says. He also avoided commercial glue and instead made his own epoxy by melting down deer hooves. He remembers the Unabomber as a "criminal mastermind" who went to extraordinary lengths to erase any trace of physical evidence within his explosives.įBI labs revealed, for instance, that the bomber ripped the skins off batteries to make them untraceable. Fitzgerald began working on the case in July 1995. mail to send his homemade explosives, became known as the "Unabomber."įBI criminal profiler James R. The suspect in the case, a shadowy figure who frequently used the U.S.
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It was the first of a series of 16 bombings that would occur over the next 17 years, killing three people and injuring many others. On May 25, 1978, a package exploded at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., injuring a security guard. Kaczynski is now serving a life sentence in prison for the bombings. Ted Kaczynski is flanked by federal agents as he is led from the federal courthouse in Helena, Mont., on April 4, 1996.