Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the "Unabomber" for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.Īuthorities in April 1996 found him in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.Īs an elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber won his share of sympathizers and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau.īut once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than romantic anti-hero.Įven in his own journals, Kaczynski came across as not a committed revolutionary, but a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances. He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future," which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.īut it led to his undoing. (Photo by Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images) Mugshot of Ted Kaczynski, identidentified as the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, April 1996.
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