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ILLUSTRATES Matthew Santolouco
1) Son of a couple of Polish descent, Theodore Kaczynski born in chicago in May 1942. Kaczynski was a reclusive boy and a frequent victim of teasing from peers for being considered odd. Despite the bullying, he became a model student. He was so smart, he even skipped a grade in elementary school.
two) Obsessed with mathematics, he joined an advanced logic class and finished high school at the age of 15. In 1958, he was accepted into the Harvard University, where he integrated studies on psychological stress. Experts believe the experience may have traumatized him and motivated further action.
3) In 1967, he became an assistant professor at the University of California, but stuttering and nervousness forced him to step down. In 1973, he switched to a house in the mountains in Lincoln, Montana. He studied survival techniques and began a self-sufficient life, cutting ties with society.
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4) Disturbed by the deforestation around his property, Ted began small acts of sabotage. In 1978, he made his first attack, with a homemade bomb, on Northwestern University. And he didn’t stop anymore. terrorized airlines, colleges and executives of large companies until 1995.
5) FBI and other agencies named the case Unabom (merger of “bombing universities and airlines”, in English). Ted used only eco-friendly components in his letter bombs and even masked explosives to look like pieces of wood. In total, he killed three and wounded 23 others.
6) In 1995, the terrorist sent a manifesto with 35 thousand words to the newspapers The New York Times It is washington postjustifying their actions. It was the missing clue: after an extensive analysis of the document and the elimination of hundreds of suspects, the FBI went after Ted, with the help of his brother, David.
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7) david gave in documents and letters written by Ted. Linguistic analysis determined that the author was the same as the manifesto. The intersection of the facts of his life and the attacks guaranteed the FBI a search warrant at his home, which yielded enough evidence for his arrest on April 3, 1996.
WHAT END DID IT TAKE?
The defense tried to plead insanity in vain and the unabomber was sentenced to life imprisonment in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
SOURCES unabomber: A Desire to Kill, by Robert Graysmith; article Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, aka “The unabomber”by David Skrbina, and FBI website