4. o Born on 22 May 1942 in Chicago,
Illinois.
o He grew up in Chicago, the oldest child of
a Polish American couple, Wanda and
Theodore.
o High school at Evergreen Park Community
High School.
o Bright child - skipped two grades during
his early education.
o He was smaller than the other kids and
regarded as "different" because of his
intelligence.
5. In 1958, enter University of Harvard at
the ages of 16 on a scholarship.
Kaczynski continued his studies at the
University of Michigan and participated in
psychological experiment under prof.
Henry A. Murray
Earned PhD in mathematics from
university of michigan (1967)
He moved to the west to teach at the
University of California Berkeley.
Kaczynski struggled at Berkeley because
he having a hard time delivering his
lectures.
He resigned his assistant professorship in
1969.
6. "UNABOM" CASE
Code-named for the University
and Airline BOMbing targets
“Unabom” explosions that were sent
through the mail to selected targets
Victims:
16 times bombs-3 death & 23 injured
Death :
1. Hugh Scrutton - computer store owner
2. Thomas J. Mosser- advertising executive
3. Gilbert P. Murray-timber industry
lobbyist)
7.
8. May 1978 - 1st mail bomb was sent to
professor Buckley Crist (Northwestern
University )
1978 - bombs sent to airline officials
1979 - bomb was placed in the cargo
hold of American Airlines Flight 444
1985 - Hugh Scrutton (California
computer store owner)- 1st fatality death
Feb 1987- Gary Wright (Salt Lake City
computer store owner ) explosion severed
nerves in Wright's left arm and propelled
more than 200 pieces of shrapnel into his
body
9. 1993 - mailing a bomb to David
Gelernter (computer science Profesor
at Yale University
In 1994 - mail bomb to Thomas J.
Mosser (Burson-Marsteller executive )
-2nd death fatality
1995 - murder of Gilbert Murray, President
of the timber industry(3rd fatality)
10. 1995 – He mailed several letters, including some to
his former victims to media
Letters of 50-plus page, 35,000-word essay
Industrial Society and Its Future (also called the
"Unabomber Manifesto") - claims about worldwide
revolution against the effects of modern society's
"industrial-technological system”.
Letters publish by The New York Times on April 26,
1995, the Unabomber wrote that "we blew up
Thomas Mosser" because Mosser helped Exxon
clean up its public image after the Exxon Valdez
incident
11. David Kaczynski browsed old papers and
found letters written by Ted on 1970s
(Ted sent to newspapers protesting the
abuses of technology)
The letters contained phrasing similar to what
was found in the Unabomber Manifesto.
David's wife contacted her friend (detective
at Investigative Group International) the same
agency that smeared tobacco industry
whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand.
The detective lined up some writing analysis
experts, and then they went to the FBI.
12. From saliva found on stamp that
UNABOMMER used to send copy of
manuscript to Prof. Tom Tyler
13. Evidences found in TK’s
Cabin
Chemicals that serve as fuel or oxidizer in
explosive device.
Includes potassium chlorate, sodium chlorate,
sugar, zinc, aluminum, lead, silver oxide.
Typewriter that match most letter for all bomb
that mail after 1981.
40,000 handwritten journal pages that
included bomb-making experiments and
descriptions of Unabomber crimes.
Wealth of bomb components.
One live bomb that ready for mailing.
14. 3 April1996 - he was arrested
in a 10-by-12-foot cabin in the
Montana wilderness after a
three-week stakeout.
His status: sentenced to four
life terms in prison on May 5,
1998