1 00:00:01,958 --> 00:00:04,208 [suspenseful music] 2 00:00:04,208 --> 00:00:07,625 - Tonight, an evil genius uses homemade bombs 3 00:00:07,625 --> 00:00:09,333 to terrorize a nation. 4 00:00:10,458 --> 00:00:12,417 - It was designed to create a mass explosion, 5 00:00:12,417 --> 00:00:14,292 which would have brought that plane down. 6 00:00:14,292 --> 00:00:16,667 - Millions of Americans are terrified 7 00:00:16,667 --> 00:00:20,083 as to where the next bomb is going to end up. 8 00:00:20,083 --> 00:00:23,750 - He leaves no trace, no fingerprints, no DNA. 9 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:25,708 It's like hunting a ghost. 10 00:00:25,708 --> 00:00:29,708 - Federal agents join forces and launch a massive manhunt, 11 00:00:29,708 --> 00:00:34,375 but still, this mastermind is always one step ahead. 12 00:00:34,375 --> 00:00:37,208 - It seems like he's taunting law enforcement, 13 00:00:37,208 --> 00:00:39,792 and to him, it's kind of a game of cat and mouse. 14 00:00:39,792 --> 00:00:44,583 - Now, we'll explore the top theories in the FBI's hunt 15 00:00:44,583 --> 00:00:47,625 for one of history's most notorious criminals 16 00:00:47,625 --> 00:00:51,292 as they finally crack the case of the Unabomber. 17 00:00:52,542 --> 00:00:55,167 [rousing music] 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,250 [suspenseful music] 19 00:01:08,250 --> 00:01:13,375 - [Laurence] 11:50 a.m., November 15th, 1979. 20 00:01:14,292 --> 00:01:16,542 30 minutes after departing Chicago, 21 00:01:16,542 --> 00:01:20,375 passengers aboard an American Airlines 727 22 00:01:20,375 --> 00:01:22,542 bound for Washington DC 23 00:01:22,542 --> 00:01:25,083 hear a muffled thump in the baggage hold, 24 00:01:25,083 --> 00:01:26,667 followed by a sucking sound. 25 00:01:28,250 --> 00:01:29,958 - [Sami] Following that noise, 26 00:01:29,958 --> 00:01:31,958 you start to get this chemical smell 27 00:01:31,958 --> 00:01:34,000 in the cabin of the plane. 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,167 The pilot makes an initial announcement 29 00:01:36,167 --> 00:01:39,458 to the passengers on board, all 72 of them, and explains that, 30 00:01:39,458 --> 00:01:42,000 "Oh, we just have a problem with a valve in the plane. 31 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:42,958 Nothing to worry about, folks. 32 00:01:42,958 --> 00:01:43,917 Everything's gonna be fine." 33 00:01:43,917 --> 00:01:45,667 [passengers panicking] 34 00:01:45,667 --> 00:01:47,958 20 minutes after the pilot's announcement, however, 35 00:01:47,958 --> 00:01:50,875 you start to get all of this thick smoke filling the cabin, 36 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:52,625 filling the fuselage. 37 00:01:52,625 --> 00:01:54,542 - The crew doesn't know what happened. 38 00:01:54,542 --> 00:01:57,333 All they know is a big bang went off. 39 00:01:58,333 --> 00:01:59,708 All the passengers in the cabin 40 00:01:59,708 --> 00:02:01,708 are now putting on their oxygen masks, 41 00:02:01,708 --> 00:02:03,917 and there's a lot of smoke, 42 00:02:03,917 --> 00:02:05,708 and they've gotta get that plane down. 43 00:02:06,708 --> 00:02:09,000 - [Sami] The real fear is that this fire 44 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,375 might end up actually reaching 45 00:02:10,375 --> 00:02:12,083 either the hydraulic system of the plane, 46 00:02:12,083 --> 00:02:14,167 or worse, the fuel tanks of the plane, 47 00:02:14,167 --> 00:02:16,167 which would cause it to explode. 48 00:02:17,250 --> 00:02:20,875 - The pilot comes on and says to the passengers, 49 00:02:20,875 --> 00:02:22,292 "Brace for impact. 50 00:02:22,292 --> 00:02:25,708 We're gonna land, 20 minutes, at Dulles Airport." 51 00:02:25,708 --> 00:02:27,000 [passengers screaming] 52 00:02:27,208 --> 00:02:30,042 - [Laurence] The plane descends at over 600 miles an hour, 53 00:02:30,042 --> 00:02:32,417 twice the normal speed of approach, 54 00:02:32,417 --> 00:02:36,375 as fire trucks and ambulances scramble to the runway. 55 00:02:36,375 --> 00:02:38,000 - [Kavitha] Thankfully, the pilot is able 56 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,375 to successfully land the plane. 57 00:02:40,375 --> 00:02:42,625 All the passengers are safely evacuated, 58 00:02:44,333 --> 00:02:46,542 and at least 12 passengers are rushed to the hospital 59 00:02:46,542 --> 00:02:48,042 for potential smoke inhalation. 60 00:02:48,042 --> 00:02:49,542 [siren wailing] 61 00:02:49,542 --> 00:02:52,583 - [Laurence] The terror and trauma are palpable, 62 00:02:52,583 --> 00:02:54,542 but it could have been so much worse. 63 00:02:55,917 --> 00:02:57,750 - Eventually they managed to extinguish the fire, 64 00:02:57,750 --> 00:03:00,417 and they discover the source of the explosion. 65 00:03:00,417 --> 00:03:04,333 It's a pipe bomb that's housed inside a wooden box. 66 00:03:04,333 --> 00:03:06,625 It's wrapped in craft paper, 67 00:03:06,625 --> 00:03:08,708 and been completely covered in stamps 68 00:03:08,708 --> 00:03:11,583 to make it look like a nondescript package. 69 00:03:11,583 --> 00:03:13,875 It's been mailed from a fairly large facility 70 00:03:13,875 --> 00:03:15,833 in suburban Chicago. 71 00:03:17,333 --> 00:03:19,667 - Now, at the time, air mail wasn't regularly scanned 72 00:03:19,667 --> 00:03:22,417 by metal detectors before being put onto a plane, 73 00:03:22,417 --> 00:03:25,000 so the bomb was able to make it very easily 74 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,833 onto the aircraft with no real suspicion by anyone. 75 00:03:30,042 --> 00:03:32,167 - Post-analysis identified 76 00:03:32,167 --> 00:03:34,083 that this was a very sophisticated bomb, 77 00:03:34,083 --> 00:03:36,833 in that the trigger mechanism was 78 00:03:36,833 --> 00:03:38,875 what we call an altimeter bomb. 79 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:40,875 So when the plane reached a certain height, 80 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:42,083 the bomb would detonate. 81 00:03:42,083 --> 00:03:43,667 [explosion thumping] 82 00:03:43,667 --> 00:03:47,375 - If the bomb had gone off the way the bomber had intended, 83 00:03:47,375 --> 00:03:49,917 there would've been a major fire on that plane, 84 00:03:49,917 --> 00:03:53,708 blowing out the fuselage and bringing that plane down. 85 00:03:55,208 --> 00:03:57,708 - Normally when you have a fairly intact bomb, 86 00:03:57,708 --> 00:03:59,583 it's pretty easy for investigators 87 00:03:59,583 --> 00:04:02,958 to use the components to trace the origins of that bomb. 88 00:04:02,958 --> 00:04:06,125 But in this case, they find that whoever built this bomb 89 00:04:06,125 --> 00:04:09,875 did a really good job of removing any kind of traceable 90 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:12,958 or identifiable information from the components. 91 00:04:14,417 --> 00:04:16,583 - [Laurence] The FBI conducts a nationwide search 92 00:04:16,583 --> 00:04:20,208 for any bombings that used similar devices 93 00:04:20,208 --> 00:04:22,333 and find two matches 94 00:04:22,333 --> 00:04:24,375 in a pair of attacks at Chicago's 95 00:04:24,375 --> 00:04:26,500 Northwestern University. 96 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:29,792 The first took place a year and a half earlier. 97 00:04:30,875 --> 00:04:35,417 - [Lis] May 25th, 1978, Northwestern University. 98 00:04:35,417 --> 00:04:37,875 A woman sees a package on the 99 00:04:37,875 --> 00:04:40,000 ground in the parking lot, 100 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,167 picks it up. 101 00:04:42,042 --> 00:04:45,625 She brings it to campus police, who open it up. 102 00:04:47,833 --> 00:04:48,875 [explosion booming] 103 00:04:48,875 --> 00:04:50,458 It's a loud explosion. 104 00:04:50,458 --> 00:04:53,750 Everybody's scared, but nobody's really hurt. 105 00:04:54,875 --> 00:04:57,333 - [Sami] Cut to a year later, in May of 1979, 106 00:04:57,333 --> 00:04:59,042 also Northwestern University. 107 00:04:59,042 --> 00:05:02,792 You have a grad student who also gets a package, 108 00:05:02,792 --> 00:05:05,083 and when he opens it, 109 00:05:05,083 --> 00:05:07,667 the package explodes, and this time, the grad student 110 00:05:07,667 --> 00:05:10,417 receives minor cuts and minor burns. 111 00:05:11,583 --> 00:05:13,167 - [Lis] So here you have two 112 00:05:13,167 --> 00:05:14,792 bombs in 1978 and 1979 113 00:05:14,792 --> 00:05:15,833 that really don't 114 00:05:15,833 --> 00:05:16,750 garner much attention, 115 00:05:16,875 --> 00:05:19,458 either nationally or even within the FBI. 116 00:05:19,458 --> 00:05:22,458 Then you have, again in 1979, 117 00:05:22,458 --> 00:05:24,583 the bomb going off on the airline. 118 00:05:24,583 --> 00:05:26,542 That gets national attention. 119 00:05:26,542 --> 00:05:29,583 That's spread all across the national media. 120 00:05:29,583 --> 00:05:32,375 - The FBI, once they finished their post investigation, 121 00:05:32,375 --> 00:05:34,708 made the determination that the airplane bomb 122 00:05:34,708 --> 00:05:37,375 was constructed in exactly the same manner 123 00:05:37,375 --> 00:05:40,417 as the other two bombs, leading them to conclude 124 00:05:40,417 --> 00:05:42,833 that the individual who placed the bomb on the plane 125 00:05:42,833 --> 00:05:44,708 was in fact the same individual 126 00:05:44,708 --> 00:05:47,125 who placed or sent the other two bombs. 127 00:05:47,125 --> 00:05:48,750 - And their concern is that 128 00:05:48,750 --> 00:05:51,583 if they don't find this person soon, 129 00:05:51,583 --> 00:05:53,042 these bombs are just going to become 130 00:05:53,042 --> 00:05:54,875 more and more sophisticated 131 00:05:54,875 --> 00:05:56,833 and ultimately, more and more dangerous. 132 00:05:57,833 --> 00:05:59,500 - [Laurence] But before the FBI 133 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:01,708 can develop any viable leads, 134 00:06:01,708 --> 00:06:05,458 the so-called Junkyard Bomber strikes again. 135 00:06:05,458 --> 00:06:10,042 On June 10th, 1980, in the exclusive Chicago suburb 136 00:06:10,042 --> 00:06:11,542 of Lake Forest, 137 00:06:11,542 --> 00:06:14,792 Percy Wood, the president of United Airlines, 138 00:06:14,792 --> 00:06:18,708 opens a parcel delivered to his home mailbox. 139 00:06:18,708 --> 00:06:22,083 - [Lis] Percy Wood is celebrating his 60th birthday. 140 00:06:22,083 --> 00:06:24,667 He thinks it's maybe a belated birthday present, 141 00:06:24,667 --> 00:06:25,917 and when he takes a look at it, 142 00:06:25,917 --> 00:06:27,792 it looks like the book, the "Ice Brothers," 143 00:06:27,792 --> 00:06:29,833 which has to do with World War II. 144 00:06:29,833 --> 00:06:31,542 That's something he might be interested in. 145 00:06:31,542 --> 00:06:33,667 - Wood is examining the book. 146 00:06:33,667 --> 00:06:35,083 As he turns it back to the cover, 147 00:06:35,208 --> 00:06:37,708 he notices that several of the pages are glued together, 148 00:06:37,708 --> 00:06:40,542 and it's at this point, boom. 149 00:06:40,542 --> 00:06:42,708 - The bomb exploded in Wood's hands late this afternoon, 150 00:06:42,708 --> 00:06:43,875 and he is now being treated 151 00:06:43,875 --> 00:06:45,875 in a hospital just outside Chicago... 152 00:06:45,875 --> 00:06:48,625 - He gets shrapnel in his face, in his body. 153 00:06:48,625 --> 00:06:52,625 You've got three-quarter pipe that rips across his thigh. 154 00:06:52,625 --> 00:06:56,333 - Wood is alive, but he requires emergency surgery, 155 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:59,667 and it definitely seems that the bomber is honing his skill. 156 00:06:59,667 --> 00:07:02,208 These bombs are getting more and more deadly. 157 00:07:02,208 --> 00:07:06,542 - [Laurence] Agents from the FBI, ATF, and US Postal Service 158 00:07:06,542 --> 00:07:10,792 now join forces and race to identify the attacker. 159 00:07:10,792 --> 00:07:15,875 They also give the manhunt a new case name, UNABOM, 160 00:07:15,875 --> 00:07:19,000 short for university and airline bomber. 161 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,667 And the attacker, he's now known as the Unabomber. 162 00:07:23,833 --> 00:07:26,500 This mysterious attacker will continue to strike 163 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:28,125 for many years to come. 164 00:07:29,708 --> 00:07:33,875 - Over the course of 18 years, the Unabomber sends 16 bombs 165 00:07:33,875 --> 00:07:38,000 to homes, institutions, and offices across the country. 166 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,375 In all, 23 people are injured, three people die, 167 00:07:42,375 --> 00:07:46,125 and millions across America are terrified. 168 00:07:46,125 --> 00:07:49,083 This is no longer a localized incident. 169 00:07:49,083 --> 00:07:51,125 - The Unabomber investigation would involve 170 00:07:51,125 --> 00:07:55,458 ultimately more than 150 special agents across the country, 171 00:07:55,458 --> 00:07:58,750 and it would cost more than $50 million. 172 00:07:58,750 --> 00:08:02,000 That's more than any investigation in history 173 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,042 up and to that point. 174 00:08:04,042 --> 00:08:06,375 - [Laurence] Federal agents are increasingly desperate 175 00:08:06,375 --> 00:08:10,792 to catch this phantom and end his deadly reign of terror. 176 00:08:10,792 --> 00:08:15,500 But first they have to figure out, who is the Unabomber? 177 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:17,125 - Experts start digging through the devices 178 00:08:17,125 --> 00:08:19,542 to see whether or not they might have missed a clue 179 00:08:19,542 --> 00:08:21,708 as to who this Unabomber might be. 180 00:08:21,708 --> 00:08:23,000 One of the things that they notice 181 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,125 is that the metal pieces on the bombs 182 00:08:25,125 --> 00:08:29,208 are fused together in a way that an airline worker 183 00:08:29,208 --> 00:08:30,417 would fuse metal together. 184 00:08:30,417 --> 00:08:33,167 And so, this clue leads investigators 185 00:08:33,167 --> 00:08:35,958 to who they think the Unabomber might actually be. 186 00:08:35,958 --> 00:08:38,958 [suspenseful music] 187 00:08:41,042 --> 00:08:43,750 - [Lis] Looking at the welding of these bombs, 188 00:08:43,750 --> 00:08:46,708 and they're very similar one to the other, 189 00:08:46,708 --> 00:08:48,708 maybe the universities were test drives 190 00:08:48,708 --> 00:08:50,542 for what the bomber really wanted to do, 191 00:08:50,542 --> 00:08:52,667 which is take down an airline. 192 00:08:52,667 --> 00:08:56,375 So the FBI early on tries to get a profile, 193 00:08:56,375 --> 00:08:59,208 and this is honed as cases go on. 194 00:08:59,208 --> 00:09:00,542 But at first they thought, 195 00:09:00,542 --> 00:09:02,792 somebody maybe in their 30s to 40s, 196 00:09:02,792 --> 00:09:05,792 male, blue collar welder. 197 00:09:05,792 --> 00:09:07,417 - [Michael] The bombs were housed in 198 00:09:07,417 --> 00:09:09,000 a custom-made wood casing. 199 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,458 The individual took great care in constructing the bombs. 200 00:09:12,458 --> 00:09:14,125 The FBI concluded that this individual 201 00:09:14,125 --> 00:09:17,000 had some obsessive- compulsive tendencies, 202 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,708 perhaps was a loner, had isolated themselves 203 00:09:19,708 --> 00:09:21,167 from mainstream society. 204 00:09:21,375 --> 00:09:24,708 - Imagine you've been fired from American Airlines or United 205 00:09:24,708 --> 00:09:26,417 and you're angry about that. 206 00:09:26,417 --> 00:09:27,833 This is a way to get back, 207 00:09:27,833 --> 00:09:29,167 and that's what the FBI thought. 208 00:09:29,167 --> 00:09:31,958 They looked for recent fires at American Airlines, 209 00:09:31,958 --> 00:09:35,042 they crosschecked with criminal history with those people, 210 00:09:35,042 --> 00:09:36,792 they went out and interviewed these people. 211 00:09:36,792 --> 00:09:40,333 We're talking about thousands and thousands of man hours 212 00:09:40,333 --> 00:09:43,542 trying to track down hundreds and hundreds of employees 213 00:09:43,542 --> 00:09:45,958 from different airlines. 214 00:09:45,958 --> 00:09:48,375 - But despite all of these efforts, 215 00:09:48,375 --> 00:09:50,708 it turns out that all of their leads 216 00:09:50,708 --> 00:09:54,042 for any potential airline workers being the Unabomber 217 00:09:54,042 --> 00:09:55,042 come up empty. 218 00:09:55,042 --> 00:09:57,000 All investigators can ultimately do is 219 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,042 wait to see if the Unabomber strikes again, 220 00:09:59,042 --> 00:10:03,167 and hope that in his next attack he slips up. 221 00:10:03,167 --> 00:10:05,583 [suspenseful music] 222 00:10:09,625 --> 00:10:11,792 - May 5th, 1982, Nashville, Tennessee. 223 00:10:11,792 --> 00:10:14,833 A secretary working in the computer science department 224 00:10:14,833 --> 00:10:17,250 of Vanderbilt University opens a package 225 00:10:17,250 --> 00:10:21,667 addressed to her boss and gets a horrifying surprise. 226 00:10:23,125 --> 00:10:26,792 - It immediately explodes, peppering her entire upper boy 227 00:10:26,792 --> 00:10:28,708 with powder burns and lacerations. 228 00:10:28,708 --> 00:10:31,125 She's rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, 229 00:10:31,125 --> 00:10:32,542 but she does survive. 230 00:10:32,542 --> 00:10:34,042 - [Lis] When this bomb goes off 231 00:10:34,042 --> 00:10:37,042 and hurts a secretary in Tennessee, 232 00:10:37,042 --> 00:10:40,083 they realize the Unabomber is back, 233 00:10:40,083 --> 00:10:44,042 and now, he or she is targeting universities again. 234 00:10:44,042 --> 00:10:46,042 - Now the task force shifts its focus to, 235 00:10:46,042 --> 00:10:48,958 okay, maybe this isn't somebody who's an airline employee, 236 00:10:48,958 --> 00:10:51,708 but maybe it's somebody that actually just holds 237 00:10:51,708 --> 00:10:53,500 a resentment towards higher education. 238 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,625 [suspenseful music] 239 00:10:59,708 --> 00:11:01,292 - [Eric] The first four bombings 240 00:11:01,292 --> 00:11:02,833 are originating from Chicago, 241 00:11:02,833 --> 00:11:04,375 so they think this is 242 00:11:04,375 --> 00:11:05,708 maybe a Chicago bomber. 243 00:11:05,708 --> 00:11:06,792 Then there's a bombing 244 00:11:06,792 --> 00:11:08,500 at Vanderbilt University 245 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:09,875 in Nashville. 246 00:11:09,875 --> 00:11:11,292 And then they find out a few months earlier 247 00:11:11,292 --> 00:11:14,708 there's been an attempted bombing in Salt Lake City, Utah. 248 00:11:14,708 --> 00:11:16,375 - [Sami] With the bomb that was defused out west 249 00:11:16,375 --> 00:11:19,292 at the University of Utah, agents start to think, 250 00:11:19,292 --> 00:11:21,125 "Maybe we've been looking in the wrong spot," 251 00:11:21,125 --> 00:11:24,125 and they start to focus their efforts out west. 252 00:11:24,125 --> 00:11:26,458 - [Laurence] Sure enough, the Unabomber's next attack 253 00:11:26,458 --> 00:11:30,875 takes place at the University of California Berkeley. 254 00:11:32,167 --> 00:11:35,875 - Now in 1982, a professor of electrical engineering, 255 00:11:35,875 --> 00:11:38,708 he sees this package on the floor 256 00:11:38,708 --> 00:11:40,375 with a wire sticking out of it. 257 00:11:40,375 --> 00:11:42,167 He's just headed to go get a cup of coffee, 258 00:11:42,167 --> 00:11:44,208 but he picks it up to be a nice guy. 259 00:11:45,417 --> 00:11:46,583 [explosion booming] 260 00:11:46,583 --> 00:11:48,333 The bomb explodes. 261 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:52,417 The right side of his body, his face, his arm, 262 00:11:52,417 --> 00:11:55,083 everything is hit by shrapnel. 263 00:11:55,083 --> 00:11:57,958 - [Laurence] Three years later on the very same campus, 264 00:11:57,958 --> 00:12:00,333 the Unabomber strikes again, 265 00:12:00,333 --> 00:12:02,667 this time at a computer lab. 266 00:12:02,667 --> 00:12:04,708 A Berkeley graduate student notices 267 00:12:04,708 --> 00:12:08,833 an unclaimed binder attached to a plastic box. 268 00:12:08,833 --> 00:12:10,292 - [Kavitha] John Hauser. 269 00:12:10,375 --> 00:12:13,042 He's an Air Force captain and an astronaut candidate. 270 00:12:13,042 --> 00:12:15,042 He decides to investigate further 271 00:12:15,042 --> 00:12:18,042 and unlatches the plastic box. 272 00:12:18,042 --> 00:12:22,333 - [Sami] When he ends up opening the box, it detonates. 273 00:12:22,333 --> 00:12:23,875 [explosion booming] 274 00:12:23,875 --> 00:12:26,583 The ring on his right hand just gets blown off, 275 00:12:26,583 --> 00:12:28,792 flies six feet, and embeds itself 276 00:12:28,792 --> 00:12:31,125 into the plaster wall nearby. 277 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:32,958 It also destroys his right arm, 278 00:12:32,958 --> 00:12:34,667 it does severe nerve damage, 279 00:12:34,667 --> 00:12:37,042 and it also blinds him in his left eye. 280 00:12:38,208 --> 00:12:40,958 - He is lucky to have survived the blast, 281 00:12:40,958 --> 00:12:45,125 but his dreams of becoming an astronaut are over in a flash. 282 00:12:45,125 --> 00:12:47,083 - [Laurence] Explosive experts confirm, 283 00:12:47,083 --> 00:12:49,917 this is the work of the Unabomber. 284 00:12:49,917 --> 00:12:52,208 It's his eighth known attack, 285 00:12:52,208 --> 00:12:55,542 and his bombs are getting more sophisticated. 286 00:12:55,542 --> 00:12:57,833 - These bombs are more lethal, 287 00:12:57,833 --> 00:13:00,208 they're exploding at a higher pace, 288 00:13:00,208 --> 00:13:02,833 and they're causing greater injury. 289 00:13:02,833 --> 00:13:05,000 - Unlike the previous Unabomber devices, 290 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,042 which were mailed to their targets, 291 00:13:07,042 --> 00:13:10,375 the two Berkeley bombs were hand delivered to the building, 292 00:13:10,375 --> 00:13:12,417 which suggests that whoever the bomber is 293 00:13:12,417 --> 00:13:15,333 is really familiar with the Berkeley campus. 294 00:13:16,375 --> 00:13:18,542 - So task force members decide to pull 295 00:13:18,542 --> 00:13:21,917 Berkeley employee records to try to see if they can find 296 00:13:21,917 --> 00:13:24,000 any employee, possibly a professor, 297 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,167 'cause again, highly intelligent individual, 298 00:13:26,167 --> 00:13:29,792 who may hold a grudge toward the university. 299 00:13:29,792 --> 00:13:31,375 - Berkeley's significant, 300 00:13:31,375 --> 00:13:34,125 Berkeley's one of the centers of the counterculture. 301 00:13:34,125 --> 00:13:37,375 In the 1960s, there are a ton of student protests 302 00:13:37,375 --> 00:13:39,458 against the Vietnam War. 303 00:13:39,458 --> 00:13:43,667 Is this someone who has been part of that movement? 304 00:13:43,667 --> 00:13:45,208 - [Laurence] But once again, 305 00:13:45,208 --> 00:13:49,292 the task force is unable to identify any viable suspects, 306 00:13:49,292 --> 00:13:54,125 and the Unabomber carries on with a new boldness. 307 00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:57,375 - 1985 turns out to be a pretty busy year for the Unabomber, 308 00:13:57,375 --> 00:14:01,333 because the ninth device that goes off is a mail bomb 309 00:14:01,333 --> 00:14:04,875 that explodes at a Boeing plant in Washington state, 310 00:14:04,875 --> 00:14:07,625 and then you have a 10th bomb, another mail bomb, 311 00:14:07,625 --> 00:14:09,083 at the University of Michigan. 312 00:14:09,083 --> 00:14:10,250 - The bomber is getting better, 313 00:14:10,250 --> 00:14:13,542 and yet the FBI and the ATF are no closer 314 00:14:13,542 --> 00:14:17,625 in getting their man, or woman, or organization. 315 00:14:17,625 --> 00:14:18,708 They don't know. 316 00:14:18,708 --> 00:14:22,000 - [Laurence] As 1985 continues, 317 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,625 things get even more frustrating for law enforcement, 318 00:14:25,625 --> 00:14:29,875 as the bomber turns to what feels like a random target, 319 00:14:29,875 --> 00:14:33,000 this time with a lethal result. 320 00:14:33,375 --> 00:14:35,500 - [Sami] It's December 11th, 1985, 321 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:38,042 at a Sacramento, California computer store. 322 00:14:39,333 --> 00:14:41,500 The manager of the store, 38-year-old Hugh Scrutton, 323 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,375 goes outside to move this pile of lumber 324 00:14:44,375 --> 00:14:48,500 with nails inside of the boards from behind his car. 325 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:50,000 As he goes to move the wood, 326 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,458 [explosion booming] 327 00:14:51,458 --> 00:14:53,833 he detonates a pipe bomb. 328 00:14:53,833 --> 00:14:56,250 It explodes right there in front of him. 329 00:14:57,750 --> 00:15:01,875 - He's injured terribly, and dies 30 minutes later. 330 00:15:02,958 --> 00:15:04,875 For the first time, on device number 11, 331 00:15:04,875 --> 00:15:06,875 the Unabomber has killed someone. 332 00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:10,417 This elevates it to a new level. 333 00:15:11,625 --> 00:15:14,292 - [Lis] All these years, they've been focusing 334 00:15:14,292 --> 00:15:17,500 on universities and airlines, 335 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:22,208 and here you have a manager of a computer store. 336 00:15:22,208 --> 00:15:26,125 What rhyme or reason can the FBI make 337 00:15:26,125 --> 00:15:27,542 of what's going on? 338 00:15:29,208 --> 00:15:33,292 - [Laurence] Then, in early 1987, the FBI catches a break. 339 00:15:35,542 --> 00:15:38,208 - On February 20th, 1987, 340 00:15:38,208 --> 00:15:39,875 at a second computer store, 341 00:15:39,875 --> 00:15:41,750 this time in Salt Lake City, Utah, 342 00:15:41,750 --> 00:15:43,875 an employee spots a suspicious 343 00:15:43,875 --> 00:15:46,083 man lurking near her car. 344 00:15:46,083 --> 00:15:48,375 She sees the man pull something suspicious 345 00:15:48,375 --> 00:15:51,958 out of a canvas bag and place it near her tire. 346 00:15:51,958 --> 00:15:54,583 So she asks another employee to go check it out, 347 00:15:54,583 --> 00:15:56,583 and within seconds, it explodes. 348 00:16:00,167 --> 00:16:03,167 - There for the very first time in the investigation, 349 00:16:04,208 --> 00:16:06,042 there's someone who thinks they've seen the bomber. 350 00:16:08,167 --> 00:16:11,042 - [Michael] So the FBI bring in a sketch artist, 351 00:16:11,042 --> 00:16:14,333 who then begins to put together what the Unabomber, 352 00:16:14,333 --> 00:16:16,542 or what this individual, looked like. 353 00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:21,833 White male, approximately 5'10", 160 pounds, 354 00:16:21,833 --> 00:16:25,250 with curly, reddish hair, wearing sunglasses and a hoodie. 355 00:16:25,250 --> 00:16:26,958 - Federal agents have released the picture 356 00:16:26,958 --> 00:16:28,708 of a suspected mass bomber. 357 00:16:28,708 --> 00:16:31,083 - [Laurence] This sketch is later revised, 358 00:16:31,083 --> 00:16:34,542 and becomes the now infamous image of the Unabomber. 359 00:16:34,542 --> 00:16:37,375 Investigators finally have a real lead 360 00:16:37,375 --> 00:16:39,542 to share with the public. 361 00:16:39,542 --> 00:16:42,833 - Everybody's looking for the Unabomber, 362 00:16:42,833 --> 00:16:44,375 and then nothing happens, 363 00:16:45,542 --> 00:16:47,250 for six years, 364 00:16:48,125 --> 00:16:49,500 no bombings. 365 00:16:50,583 --> 00:16:52,875 So the FBI begins to think 366 00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:54,750 that he's never gonna come out again, 367 00:16:54,750 --> 00:16:57,417 and what happens here is that the FBI 368 00:16:57,417 --> 00:17:01,042 almost gets rid of the task force. 369 00:17:01,042 --> 00:17:02,750 - [Sami] But there are individuals in the FBI, 370 00:17:02,750 --> 00:17:05,792 other agents that say, don't close it up just yet. 371 00:17:05,792 --> 00:17:07,792 They believe that all he's doing 372 00:17:07,792 --> 00:17:12,708 is laying low and continuing to hone and refine 373 00:17:12,708 --> 00:17:15,833 his bomb making skills so they can be that much more deadly. 374 00:17:15,833 --> 00:17:17,250 [suspenseful music] 375 00:17:21,292 --> 00:17:23,292 - [Laurence] It is now 1993, 376 00:17:23,292 --> 00:17:26,333 six years after the Unabomber's last attack. 377 00:17:26,333 --> 00:17:30,042 That June, two mail bombs strike in quick succession, 378 00:17:30,042 --> 00:17:33,292 again to what feel like random targets. 379 00:17:34,833 --> 00:17:36,375 - A prominent scientist, 380 00:17:36,375 --> 00:17:38,917 a geneticist named Dr. Charles Epstein, 381 00:17:38,917 --> 00:17:40,458 who lives in Tiburon, California, 382 00:17:40,458 --> 00:17:42,958 across the bay from San Francisco. 383 00:17:42,958 --> 00:17:46,208 Dr. Epstein receives a package in the mail. 384 00:17:46,208 --> 00:17:48,500 It turns out that the package is a bomb. 385 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:50,375 - [Reporter] Violence shattered the life and career 386 00:17:50,375 --> 00:17:51,708 of one of the West's most 387 00:17:51,708 --> 00:17:53,125 prominent genetic researchers. 388 00:17:53,125 --> 00:17:56,000 A package bomb blew as Dr. Charles Epstein 389 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,750 opened his mail at his home late Tuesday. 390 00:17:58,750 --> 00:18:02,333 - The force of this bomb blows out the kitchen window, 391 00:18:02,333 --> 00:18:04,458 knocks out the table legs. 392 00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:06,792 This bomb is in a small package, 393 00:18:06,792 --> 00:18:08,792 but it's got a lot of force. 394 00:18:08,792 --> 00:18:11,083 - The explosion is so powerful 395 00:18:11,083 --> 00:18:14,292 that Epstein suffers damage to his right hand, 396 00:18:14,292 --> 00:18:16,667 he gets shrapnel lodged in his abdomen, 397 00:18:16,667 --> 00:18:19,583 and he also suffers permanent hearing damage. 398 00:18:19,583 --> 00:18:21,208 - [Laurence] Just two days later, 399 00:18:21,208 --> 00:18:23,708 another professor is attacked, 400 00:18:23,708 --> 00:18:28,083 this time, across the country at Yale University. 401 00:18:28,083 --> 00:18:30,750 - Bomb number 14 is sent to a computer scientist 402 00:18:30,750 --> 00:18:33,000 named David Gelernter. 403 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,500 - He opens up a small, padded envelope. 404 00:18:37,792 --> 00:18:39,417 - [Reporter] Authorities believe a Yale computer scientist... 405 00:18:39,417 --> 00:18:42,042 - Not only is the size of the bomb different, 406 00:18:42,042 --> 00:18:45,000 gone from being housed in this wooden box 407 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,875 to being in just a padded envelope, 408 00:18:47,875 --> 00:18:51,083 but the detonation got stronger. 409 00:18:51,083 --> 00:18:52,875 [typewriter keys clicking] 410 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:57,750 The FBI is able to look at the typewriting 411 00:18:57,750 --> 00:19:00,375 on the mailing labels, 412 00:19:00,375 --> 00:19:02,583 and they note that both of the bombs 413 00:19:02,583 --> 00:19:06,250 have these labels from the same typewriter. 414 00:19:06,250 --> 00:19:07,667 [suspenseful music] 415 00:19:07,667 --> 00:19:11,833 So what the task force realizes immediately is, 416 00:19:11,833 --> 00:19:16,750 the Unabomber is back, and he or she is much more forceful. 417 00:19:18,292 --> 00:19:20,042 - [Laurence] On June 24th, 418 00:19:20,042 --> 00:19:22,708 the same afternoon as the Yale bombing, 419 00:19:22,708 --> 00:19:27,583 a third envelope shows up, this time at the New York Times. 420 00:19:28,583 --> 00:19:29,917 - This envelope doesn't contain a bomb, 421 00:19:29,917 --> 00:19:31,417 it contains a letter, 422 00:19:31,417 --> 00:19:32,708 and what's written in that letter 423 00:19:32,708 --> 00:19:35,208 raises the possibility for the first time 424 00:19:35,208 --> 00:19:37,792 that the Unabomber might not be working alone. 425 00:19:37,792 --> 00:19:39,667 - [Laurence] The letter is supposedly written 426 00:19:39,667 --> 00:19:43,167 by a member of a group with the initials FC, 427 00:19:43,167 --> 00:19:45,417 which stands for Freedom Club. 428 00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:48,708 - The author of the letter 429 00:19:48,708 --> 00:19:50,792 claims that they're writing this letter to the Times 430 00:19:50,792 --> 00:19:52,583 for two main reasons. 431 00:19:52,583 --> 00:19:55,083 One, to establish the group's identity, 432 00:19:55,083 --> 00:19:57,542 to let people know who Freedom Club is. 433 00:19:57,542 --> 00:20:01,833 The second reason is so that they can provide a secret code 434 00:20:01,833 --> 00:20:03,833 in all further communication 435 00:20:03,833 --> 00:20:05,708 so that no one else can take responsibility 436 00:20:05,708 --> 00:20:09,250 for bombings that are carried out by Freedom Club. 437 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:11,000 - The public doesn't know this at the time, 438 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,167 but each of the devices that the Unabomber had sent 439 00:20:14,167 --> 00:20:15,792 had contained a metal disc 440 00:20:15,792 --> 00:20:18,875 with the letters FC engraved in them, 441 00:20:18,875 --> 00:20:21,667 and that disc was designed to withstand the blast. 442 00:20:21,667 --> 00:20:24,167 So it's kind of like a calling card. 443 00:20:24,958 --> 00:20:26,042 - [Lis] In their analysis, 444 00:20:26,042 --> 00:20:28,542 the FBI is also able to determine 445 00:20:28,542 --> 00:20:33,208 that the letter is off the same typewriter 446 00:20:33,208 --> 00:20:35,375 as all of the other mailing labels 447 00:20:35,375 --> 00:20:37,208 on all of the other bombs, 448 00:20:37,208 --> 00:20:39,542 so they know that it is the Unabomber, 449 00:20:39,542 --> 00:20:43,167 calling themselves FC, Freedom Club. 450 00:20:43,167 --> 00:20:44,333 - [Laurence] The letter's author 451 00:20:44,333 --> 00:20:47,708 calls the club an anarchist group. 452 00:20:47,708 --> 00:20:49,667 - This letter gives us the first glimpse 453 00:20:49,667 --> 00:20:52,542 into what could be the inner workings of the minds 454 00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:54,792 behind all of the bombings thus far. 455 00:20:54,792 --> 00:20:57,625 [suspenseful music] 456 00:20:58,875 --> 00:21:00,375 - [Laurence] Despite revealing the group's 457 00:21:00,375 --> 00:21:02,542 alleged identity in the letter, 458 00:21:02,542 --> 00:21:06,250 the author refuses to reveal their motive. 459 00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:09,417 - Is this anarchist group FC really a thing? 460 00:21:09,417 --> 00:21:10,833 What do we do with this? 461 00:21:10,833 --> 00:21:13,500 So many of the clues in Unabomber are like that. 462 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:15,375 Where does it lead us? 463 00:21:15,375 --> 00:21:16,875 - [Laurence] But in sending this letter, 464 00:21:16,875 --> 00:21:19,208 the Unabomber may have inadvertently 465 00:21:19,208 --> 00:21:21,250 revealed something new. 466 00:21:22,542 --> 00:21:23,875 - [Eric] As they analyze the letter, 467 00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:25,667 they notice there's an indentation. 468 00:21:25,667 --> 00:21:27,500 It's not written out in pencil, 469 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,917 but as if someone was writing something on top of the letter 470 00:21:29,917 --> 00:21:33,375 and there was a mark left from the writing that says, 471 00:21:33,375 --> 00:21:37,417 "Call Nathan R., Wednesday 7:00 p.m." 472 00:21:37,417 --> 00:21:39,042 What does that mean? 473 00:21:39,042 --> 00:21:42,375 - So investigators are now thinking, who is this Nathan R? 474 00:21:42,375 --> 00:21:45,167 Could this person be a member of the Freedom Club? 475 00:21:45,167 --> 00:21:46,500 Could this be a clue 476 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,000 that leads us to the identity of the Unabomber? 477 00:21:50,292 --> 00:21:53,208 - So they started digging into the Nathan Rs 478 00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:54,708 in the United States, 479 00:21:54,708 --> 00:21:57,417 and you can only imagine how many there must be. 480 00:21:57,417 --> 00:22:00,833 They looked at more than 10,000 individuals 481 00:22:00,833 --> 00:22:04,458 to see if there was anything that might somehow correlate 482 00:22:04,458 --> 00:22:06,625 to a person who might be the Unabomber. 483 00:22:07,833 --> 00:22:10,542 - [Sami] But despite all of their Herculean efforts, 484 00:22:10,542 --> 00:22:12,375 nothing comes of it. 485 00:22:12,375 --> 00:22:13,875 It ends up being just another dead end, 486 00:22:13,875 --> 00:22:15,417 and they start to think, 487 00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:17,042 well, maybe they just indented this handwriting 488 00:22:17,042 --> 00:22:20,375 onto that letter to serve as a sort of distraction. 489 00:22:20,375 --> 00:22:21,958 - [Laurence] To move the search forward, 490 00:22:21,958 --> 00:22:26,542 the FBI opens up a tip line with a $1 million reward 491 00:22:26,542 --> 00:22:30,375 for information leading to the Unabomber's arrest. 492 00:22:30,375 --> 00:22:33,000 - People have lots of suspicions about who this could be. 493 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,417 Maybe it's someone they know, maybe it's a family member. 494 00:22:36,417 --> 00:22:37,833 So the UNABOM task force 495 00:22:37,833 --> 00:22:41,000 is being inundated with information. 496 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,250 - When the tip line is opened, 497 00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:44,083 thousands of tips start coming in, 498 00:22:44,083 --> 00:22:46,542 and all of them are investigated. 499 00:22:46,542 --> 00:22:49,250 Many of them really don't lead to anything. 500 00:22:49,250 --> 00:22:51,375 However, there is one name 501 00:22:51,375 --> 00:22:54,292 that comes in from numerous individuals, 502 00:22:54,292 --> 00:22:56,083 over and over again. 503 00:23:00,083 --> 00:23:02,375 - By the mid 1990s, the failure to catch the Unabomber 504 00:23:02,375 --> 00:23:04,708 creates a climate of fear. 505 00:23:04,708 --> 00:23:08,958 People are terrified to open packages or fly in planes 506 00:23:08,958 --> 00:23:13,583 for fear of being killed or maimed by a hidden pipe bomb, 507 00:23:13,583 --> 00:23:18,250 and so far, it feels like there's nothing the FBI can do 508 00:23:18,250 --> 00:23:20,375 to end this reign of terror. 509 00:23:22,417 --> 00:23:23,958 - Adding to the concern, 510 00:23:23,958 --> 00:23:27,500 the Unabomber launches two more fatal attacks, 511 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,542 but these seem much more random. 512 00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:33,667 The first victim is attacked in December of 1994. 513 00:23:33,667 --> 00:23:36,208 It's an advertising executive named Thomas Mosser, 514 00:23:36,208 --> 00:23:38,875 and the attack takes place at his home in New Jersey. 515 00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:40,792 The second victim, four months later, 516 00:23:40,792 --> 00:23:43,583 is a timber industry lobbyist 517 00:23:43,583 --> 00:23:45,417 that goes by the name of Gilbert Murray, 518 00:23:45,417 --> 00:23:48,375 and that happens in Sacramento, California. 519 00:23:48,375 --> 00:23:49,583 - Why these two guys? 520 00:23:49,583 --> 00:23:50,875 I mean, they really don't have 521 00:23:50,875 --> 00:23:53,167 anything in common with each other, 522 00:23:53,167 --> 00:23:54,542 nor do they have anything in common 523 00:23:54,542 --> 00:23:55,833 with the rest of the people 524 00:23:55,833 --> 00:23:58,667 who have been victims of the Unabomber. 525 00:23:58,667 --> 00:24:01,917 - He's gone from someone who was struggling 526 00:24:01,917 --> 00:24:03,833 to make devices that even went off, 527 00:24:03,833 --> 00:24:06,542 to someone who seems to be able to kill at will. 528 00:24:06,542 --> 00:24:08,917 - That summer, with the FBI scrambling 529 00:24:08,917 --> 00:24:11,708 to get any leads on who the Unabomber might be, 530 00:24:11,708 --> 00:24:13,667 [suspenseful music builds] 531 00:24:13,667 --> 00:24:16,667 a notorious fugitive joins the suspect list. 532 00:24:21,083 --> 00:24:24,208 - James Kilgore is a California grad student 533 00:24:24,208 --> 00:24:27,292 turned political activist, and will later become a soldier 534 00:24:27,292 --> 00:24:29,083 in the Symbionese Liberation Army, 535 00:24:29,083 --> 00:24:32,542 which is this radical left wing group. 536 00:24:32,542 --> 00:24:36,042 This is a group that becomes famous, or infamous, 537 00:24:36,042 --> 00:24:40,042 for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst in 1974. 538 00:24:40,042 --> 00:24:42,042 It's believed that he helped Patty Hearst 539 00:24:42,042 --> 00:24:45,458 escape from the FBI during a shootout with police. 540 00:24:45,458 --> 00:24:48,750 - He was responsible for planting bombs under police cars 541 00:24:48,750 --> 00:24:50,792 all across the state of California, 542 00:24:50,792 --> 00:24:53,708 and thankfully, none of those ever detonated. 543 00:24:54,792 --> 00:24:57,208 As law enforcement's closing in on the SLA, 544 00:24:57,208 --> 00:25:00,458 Kilgore was wise enough to escape the area 545 00:25:00,458 --> 00:25:02,500 and he's never been heard of since. 546 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:05,042 And just before Kilgore goes underground, 547 00:25:05,042 --> 00:25:08,542 he puts out a communication to all of his followers 548 00:25:08,542 --> 00:25:10,417 that he's gonna continue the fight 549 00:25:10,417 --> 00:25:12,833 against this tyranny of government. 550 00:25:15,083 --> 00:25:18,500 - 20 years later after he was involved with the SLA, 551 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:20,292 they're wondering if James Kilgore 552 00:25:20,292 --> 00:25:24,250 is now making good on those threats by all of these bombs. 553 00:25:24,250 --> 00:25:27,667 He certainly would have the expertise to do it, 554 00:25:27,667 --> 00:25:30,375 and certainly the anger to do it. 555 00:25:30,375 --> 00:25:31,875 - [Laurence] Kilgore's ties to Berkeley 556 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:34,167 and his history with explosives 557 00:25:34,167 --> 00:25:38,625 aren't his only similarities with the Unabomber. 558 00:25:38,625 --> 00:25:42,167 Digging into Kilgore's past turns up even more. 559 00:25:42,167 --> 00:25:43,667 [pensive music] 560 00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:45,208 - [Sami] They find that James Kilgore was raised 561 00:25:45,208 --> 00:25:47,000 about 20 miles north of Berkeley, California, 562 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,417 and that his father is a lumber broker 563 00:25:49,417 --> 00:25:50,875 in Northern California. 564 00:25:51,625 --> 00:25:52,958 And this makes the FBI think 565 00:25:52,958 --> 00:25:54,292 that maybe there's a connection here, 566 00:25:54,292 --> 00:25:56,875 because a lot of these early devices from the Unabomber 567 00:25:56,875 --> 00:26:00,417 have a through line that deals with wood. 568 00:26:00,417 --> 00:26:04,708 - The bombs are made of wood, which is very unusual. 569 00:26:04,708 --> 00:26:08,667 You have one of, the fourth target is Percy Wood, 570 00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:11,542 who lives in Lake Forest, Illinois. 571 00:26:11,542 --> 00:26:12,875 - One of these devices was sent to somebody 572 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:15,250 that lives on Aspen Drive. 573 00:26:15,250 --> 00:26:17,333 And then you have Gilbert Murray, one of the victims 574 00:26:17,333 --> 00:26:20,833 who was somebody that also worked in the lumber industry. 575 00:26:20,833 --> 00:26:22,583 - During the case, investigators noted 576 00:26:22,583 --> 00:26:24,417 really interesting similarities 577 00:26:24,417 --> 00:26:27,042 between the way in which the SLA bombs 578 00:26:27,042 --> 00:26:29,333 were constructed in those early days 579 00:26:29,333 --> 00:26:32,667 and the way in which Unabomber was constructing his bombs. 580 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,208 - [Laurence] Investigators note the strong similarity 581 00:26:36,208 --> 00:26:40,250 between Kilgore and that infamous sketch. 582 00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:41,542 - By now, he's somebody 583 00:26:41,542 --> 00:26:43,583 that would've been in about his 40s, 584 00:26:43,583 --> 00:26:45,375 and the last time he's seen, 585 00:26:45,375 --> 00:26:49,917 he stands at about 5'10", weighs about 170 pounds, 586 00:26:49,917 --> 00:26:53,000 and he has this reddish, brown hair. 587 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,042 - [Mike] Looking at Kilgore as a suspect made perfect sense, 588 00:26:56,042 --> 00:26:59,833 and the idea that this '70s terrorist 589 00:26:59,833 --> 00:27:02,833 was now reinventing himself wasn't out of reach. 590 00:27:03,958 --> 00:27:05,458 - [Laurence] But those who know James Kilgore 591 00:27:05,458 --> 00:27:09,667 insist he doesn't fit the profile of a serial killer. 592 00:27:11,208 --> 00:27:13,333 - For starters, Patty Hearst describes Kilgore in her book 593 00:27:13,333 --> 00:27:16,000 as a, quote, "model of reason." 594 00:27:17,042 --> 00:27:18,667 The other challenge in pinning Kilgore down 595 00:27:18,667 --> 00:27:21,667 is that the FBI can't find him. 596 00:27:21,667 --> 00:27:23,500 They don't know where he's at. 597 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:24,833 - [Laurence] Meanwhile, 598 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,917 the Unabomber seems to be getting more brazen, 599 00:27:27,917 --> 00:27:32,125 taunting the media as well as his victims. 600 00:27:32,125 --> 00:27:35,500 - [Eric] A letter arrives at the San Francisco Chronicle, 601 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:38,417 and it's a short letter, and it says that the Unabomber 602 00:27:38,417 --> 00:27:41,750 is going to place a bomb on an airplane out of LAX 603 00:27:41,750 --> 00:27:43,708 in the next six days, 604 00:27:43,708 --> 00:27:46,333 and this sends the entire country into a panic, 605 00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:49,083 and it turns out that this whole thing was a hoax. 606 00:27:50,250 --> 00:27:52,458 - [Laurence] The Unabomber then sends more letters 607 00:27:52,458 --> 00:27:56,292 to the Washington Post and the New York Times, 608 00:27:56,292 --> 00:27:58,250 but these are very different 609 00:27:58,250 --> 00:28:01,250 and give investigators fresh insights 610 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:03,042 into the bomber's motives. 611 00:28:04,375 --> 00:28:06,958 - He sends a letter to the Washington Post 612 00:28:06,958 --> 00:28:11,208 and the New York Times saying that he will, FC will, 613 00:28:11,208 --> 00:28:17,250 stop bombings if they publish their 35,000-word manifesto. 614 00:28:17,958 --> 00:28:20,375 What is this manifesto about? 615 00:28:20,375 --> 00:28:24,375 It's a diatribe against the industrial complex, 616 00:28:24,375 --> 00:28:27,667 that computerization is going to kill our society 617 00:28:27,667 --> 00:28:29,208 and must be thwarted. 618 00:28:29,208 --> 00:28:32,042 If the papers publish his manifesto, 619 00:28:32,042 --> 00:28:35,000 FC says, they will stop bombing. 620 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,250 - [Laurence] The papers aren't sure what to do, 621 00:28:37,250 --> 00:28:40,333 and consult with Attorney General Janet Reno 622 00:28:40,333 --> 00:28:43,208 and FBI Director Louis Freeh. 623 00:28:43,208 --> 00:28:46,792 - [Eric] Do we give in to this guy's demands, 624 00:28:46,792 --> 00:28:48,125 do we publish this in the hopes 625 00:28:48,125 --> 00:28:51,625 that he really will stop bombing, 626 00:28:51,625 --> 00:28:53,333 or do we refuse to publish it 627 00:28:53,333 --> 00:28:56,750 because what kind of an example does this set? 628 00:28:57,917 --> 00:29:00,625 - Ultimately, the FBI tell the New York Times 629 00:29:00,625 --> 00:29:01,750 and the Washington Post, 630 00:29:01,750 --> 00:29:03,125 "Go ahead and publish the manifesto. 631 00:29:03,125 --> 00:29:04,708 We realize that there's a risk involved, 632 00:29:04,708 --> 00:29:06,542 but it might be worth the risk. 633 00:29:06,542 --> 00:29:08,417 - [Reporter] The Washington Post published his words 634 00:29:08,417 --> 00:29:10,958 only after speaking with Attorney General Janet Reno 635 00:29:10,958 --> 00:29:12,375 and FBI officials. 636 00:29:12,375 --> 00:29:14,917 The Justice Department hopes to use his own words 637 00:29:14,917 --> 00:29:16,292 to lead investigators 638 00:29:16,292 --> 00:29:19,042 to one of the most hunted men in the country. 639 00:29:19,042 --> 00:29:22,000 - I think if he wrote one sentence or 37,000 words, 640 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,500 he's revealing more of himself 641 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:25,708 every time he writes anything. 642 00:29:25,708 --> 00:29:27,042 - [Sami] The manifesto's published on 643 00:29:27,042 --> 00:29:28,917 September 19th, 1995. 644 00:29:28,917 --> 00:29:31,667 Millions of people read this manifesto, 645 00:29:31,667 --> 00:29:33,167 and following its publication, 646 00:29:33,167 --> 00:29:36,000 you have thousands of new tips 647 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,208 that are coming into that tip line that the FBI set up 648 00:29:38,208 --> 00:29:42,750 that are providing potentially hundreds of new suspects. 649 00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:49,583 - [Laurence] On November 12th, 1995, 650 00:29:49,583 --> 00:29:53,083 two months after the Unabomber's manifesto is published, 651 00:29:53,083 --> 00:29:56,333 journalist Tom Bates, at the Oregonian, 652 00:29:56,333 --> 00:29:59,375 says he knows who the Unabomber is, 653 00:29:59,375 --> 00:30:03,292 a criminal on the FBI's most wanted list. 654 00:30:03,292 --> 00:30:06,125 - Bates claims that the language used in the manifesto 655 00:30:06,125 --> 00:30:09,125 and the ideas that are espoused in that writing 656 00:30:09,125 --> 00:30:13,000 match up to someone that is known to have planted 657 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,083 bombs and explosives on university campuses in the past 658 00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:18,917 and is someone who is a pretty famed fugitive. 659 00:30:20,375 --> 00:30:25,208 - On August 24th, 1970, at 3:40 in the morning, 660 00:30:25,208 --> 00:30:27,708 the group pull up in a van that they've loaded 661 00:30:27,708 --> 00:30:30,208 with 2,000 pounds of explosives, 662 00:30:30,208 --> 00:30:33,833 preparing to detonate a bomb at a university. 663 00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:36,417 And the man who allegedly built this bomb 664 00:30:36,417 --> 00:30:39,708 and dreamt up this scheme was a 22-year-old student 665 00:30:39,708 --> 00:30:41,292 named Leo Burt. 666 00:30:41,292 --> 00:30:44,208 [suspenseful music] 667 00:30:45,458 --> 00:30:47,542 - [Laurence] Born and raised in Pennsylvania, 668 00:30:47,542 --> 00:30:52,000 Burt came to the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960s 669 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,958 to row varsity crew. 670 00:30:54,917 --> 00:30:57,042 But after being cut from the team, 671 00:30:57,042 --> 00:31:00,042 his interests turned more political. 672 00:31:00,042 --> 00:31:01,458 - So he works at the student newspaper 673 00:31:01,458 --> 00:31:03,792 as a student journalist, but one reason 674 00:31:03,792 --> 00:31:05,708 for wanting to carry out these forms of protest 675 00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:07,833 is because he actually covers 676 00:31:07,833 --> 00:31:09,875 the shooting that happens at Kent State, 677 00:31:11,042 --> 00:31:14,208 and he's badly beaten by a police officer 678 00:31:14,208 --> 00:31:16,458 that's putting down that protest that day. 679 00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:18,417 But over time, his protest 680 00:31:18,417 --> 00:31:20,833 starts to lean in a more violent direction. 681 00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:24,833 - On New Year's Eve 1969, 682 00:31:24,833 --> 00:31:27,875 Burt and three associates steal a small plane. 683 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:29,208 They drop homemade bombs 684 00:31:29,208 --> 00:31:32,083 on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, 685 00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:33,333 but they don't detonate. 686 00:31:34,458 --> 00:31:35,708 - [Laurence] That summer, 687 00:31:35,708 --> 00:31:38,125 Burt sets his sights on a new target. 688 00:31:39,542 --> 00:31:40,958 - [Sami] On the campus of 689 00:31:40,958 --> 00:31:43,167 the University of Wisconsin Madison at the time, 690 00:31:43,167 --> 00:31:46,250 there is the Army Mathematics Research Center, 691 00:31:46,250 --> 00:31:48,542 which is a government funded 692 00:31:48,542 --> 00:31:50,792 think tank known as Army Math. 693 00:31:50,792 --> 00:31:52,333 - Army Math, as it was known, 694 00:31:52,333 --> 00:31:55,542 was despised by many anti-war activists, 695 00:31:55,542 --> 00:31:57,833 who believed that the center was responsible 696 00:31:57,833 --> 00:32:01,375 for much of the death and destruction in Southeast Asia 697 00:32:01,375 --> 00:32:05,292 and had no place on a government-funded campus. 698 00:32:05,292 --> 00:32:07,500 Burt and his New Year's Eve associates, 699 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,208 they steal a van from a campus parking lot 700 00:32:10,208 --> 00:32:14,000 and fill it with six barrels of fertilizer and fuel oil. 701 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,875 They wait until the wee hours of the morning 702 00:32:15,875 --> 00:32:18,125 and they drive the van to Sterling Hall. 703 00:32:18,125 --> 00:32:21,167 At 3:42 a.m., they light the fuse. 704 00:32:21,167 --> 00:32:23,875 [explosion booming] 705 00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:25,917 [dark tense music] 706 00:32:25,917 --> 00:32:27,667 - [Sami] The bomb explodes, 707 00:32:28,792 --> 00:32:32,208 and this huge rattle is felt all across campus. 708 00:32:32,208 --> 00:32:35,792 Now, the Army Math building itself isn't really touched, 709 00:32:35,792 --> 00:32:38,542 but everything around Army Math 710 00:32:38,542 --> 00:32:41,542 and near Army Math is basically destroyed, 711 00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:43,417 including a physics lab 712 00:32:43,417 --> 00:32:45,833 in which you have a 33-year-old graduate student 713 00:32:45,833 --> 00:32:48,833 who is working late that night. 714 00:32:48,833 --> 00:32:50,417 He ends up dying in the blast. 715 00:32:53,083 --> 00:32:54,792 And there are also five other people in the lab 716 00:32:54,792 --> 00:32:57,167 that are critically injured. 717 00:32:57,167 --> 00:32:58,708 - [Kavitha] Burt's three co-conspirators 718 00:32:58,708 --> 00:33:01,167 are caught, tried and sentenced, 719 00:33:01,167 --> 00:33:03,542 but Burt himself remains a fugitive 720 00:33:03,542 --> 00:33:06,167 throughout the Unabomber's active years. 721 00:33:06,167 --> 00:33:08,875 Journalist Tom Bates writes a book about Burt 722 00:33:08,875 --> 00:33:10,625 and the Sterling Hall bombing. 723 00:33:10,625 --> 00:33:13,875 Years later when the Unabomber's manifesto is published, 724 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:15,833 he insists that it has to be the work 725 00:33:15,833 --> 00:33:17,625 of the fugitive campus bomber. 726 00:33:18,792 --> 00:33:21,250 Bates cites a magazine article written by Burt 727 00:33:21,250 --> 00:33:24,667 called, "Do We Need a National Organization?" 728 00:33:24,667 --> 00:33:27,333 - The writing is similar, the style is similar, 729 00:33:27,333 --> 00:33:30,250 and so, Tom Bates makes the argument that, 730 00:33:30,250 --> 00:33:31,667 just looking at the language 731 00:33:31,667 --> 00:33:34,083 and the way that the manifesto is written, 732 00:33:34,083 --> 00:33:37,375 it's very much like what Leo Burt wrote many years ago. 733 00:33:37,375 --> 00:33:38,958 - [Sami] He also says that Burt is somebody 734 00:33:38,958 --> 00:33:42,333 that really has no regard for loss of life, 735 00:33:42,333 --> 00:33:45,875 as evidenced by the fact that the Sterling Hall explosion 736 00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:49,750 kills that graduate student and Burt shows no empathy, 737 00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:51,708 instead just decides to flee. 738 00:33:53,042 --> 00:33:55,417 - [Laurence] Federal agents investigate Burt, 739 00:33:55,417 --> 00:33:58,000 claiming that he can't be completely discounted 740 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,667 while still at large, 741 00:33:59,667 --> 00:34:02,583 but someone else reading the manifesto 742 00:34:02,583 --> 00:34:04,542 hears a different voice. 743 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:07,708 - She recognizes the style, the tone, 744 00:34:07,708 --> 00:34:10,083 and the anger that's present in the manifesto 745 00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:14,500 because she's seen this, but much closer to home. 746 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,167 [suspenseful music] 747 00:34:21,042 --> 00:34:23,750 - [Laurence] It's now late 1995, 748 00:34:23,750 --> 00:34:25,917 17 years after the Unabomber 749 00:34:25,917 --> 00:34:29,042 first began his terrifying attacks. 750 00:34:29,042 --> 00:34:31,792 Linda Patrik, a philosophy professor 751 00:34:31,792 --> 00:34:33,792 from Schenectady, New York 752 00:34:33,792 --> 00:34:36,417 is in Paris on sabbatical. 753 00:34:37,333 --> 00:34:38,667 - She's reading an English language newspaper 754 00:34:38,667 --> 00:34:41,208 with excerpts of the recently published 755 00:34:41,208 --> 00:34:43,083 Unabomber's manifesto, 756 00:34:43,083 --> 00:34:45,375 and the words seem eerily similar 757 00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:47,292 to something she's read before. 758 00:34:48,417 --> 00:34:51,208 This writing contains striking similarities 759 00:34:51,208 --> 00:34:53,375 to some letters that had been sent to her husband, 760 00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:57,167 David Kaczynski, from his estranged brother. 761 00:34:57,167 --> 00:34:58,667 He was furious that 762 00:34:58,667 --> 00:35:00,458 David was marrying Linda 763 00:35:00,458 --> 00:35:02,583 despite never having met her, 764 00:35:02,583 --> 00:35:04,875 and he wrote long, vengeful letters 765 00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:06,250 disparaging their marriage 766 00:35:06,250 --> 00:35:08,667 and the institution of marriage itself. 767 00:35:09,958 --> 00:35:12,000 - [Laurence] Shortly after the manifesto was released, 768 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,125 David comes to Paris for a visit 769 00:35:14,125 --> 00:35:16,208 and Linda shares her concerns 770 00:35:16,208 --> 00:35:19,125 that his brother Ted might be the Unabomber. 771 00:35:20,083 --> 00:35:21,542 - He doesn't believe it at first. 772 00:35:21,542 --> 00:35:23,375 He hasn't read the manifesto yet. 773 00:35:23,375 --> 00:35:25,167 He said, "I know my brother. 774 00:35:25,167 --> 00:35:26,625 He's a little wacky. 775 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:28,458 He's out there living off the grid. 776 00:35:28,458 --> 00:35:31,625 I know he is strange, but he's sweet. 777 00:35:31,625 --> 00:35:33,625 He wouldn't hurt a fly." 778 00:35:33,625 --> 00:35:35,125 [welding torch sparking] 779 00:35:35,125 --> 00:35:36,417 - He says to Linda, 780 00:35:36,417 --> 00:35:38,417 "I think there's one in a thousand chance 781 00:35:38,417 --> 00:35:41,208 that my brother could be the Unabomber." 782 00:35:41,208 --> 00:35:43,458 And she says, "Well, one in a thousand is significant. 783 00:35:43,458 --> 00:35:45,375 We need to start thinking about this." 784 00:35:45,375 --> 00:35:48,333 - [Lis] And that's when Dave looks up the manifesto. 785 00:35:48,333 --> 00:35:50,333 He's able then to get all the letters 786 00:35:50,333 --> 00:35:52,875 he's received over the years from his brother. 787 00:35:52,875 --> 00:35:56,875 As he and his wife look through all of these letters, 788 00:35:56,875 --> 00:36:00,042 they realize that there is 789 00:36:00,042 --> 00:36:03,667 a very striking similarity. 790 00:36:04,667 --> 00:36:08,708 - [Laurence] In February 1996, David reaches out to the FBI 791 00:36:08,708 --> 00:36:10,583 to share his suspicions, 792 00:36:10,583 --> 00:36:15,583 and turns over a trove of Ted's writings for comparison. 793 00:36:16,750 --> 00:36:19,125 After looking into more than 2,000 suspects, 794 00:36:19,125 --> 00:36:22,208 the task force may finally have their man. 795 00:36:23,542 --> 00:36:27,542 - [Sami] Ted Kaczynski is born in Chicago, Illinois in 1942 796 00:36:27,542 --> 00:36:29,542 to working class parents, 797 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,792 but he's an incredibly gifted student, 798 00:36:33,792 --> 00:36:35,833 especially in mathematics. 799 00:36:35,833 --> 00:36:38,500 He actually scores a 167 on an IQ test, 800 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,958 and he even skips two grades in high school, 801 00:36:40,958 --> 00:36:43,375 graduates by the age of 15, 802 00:36:43,375 --> 00:36:45,375 and is immediately accepted to Harvard. 803 00:36:46,208 --> 00:36:47,542 Once he finishes at Harvard, 804 00:36:47,542 --> 00:36:49,458 he then goes on to University of Michigan 805 00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:52,958 to obtain his master's, and then later his doctorate degree. 806 00:36:52,958 --> 00:36:54,250 - He's quickly hired 807 00:36:54,250 --> 00:36:56,542 by the University of California Berkeley. 808 00:36:56,542 --> 00:37:00,708 He's put on a tenure track as a professor in his mid 20s. 809 00:37:00,708 --> 00:37:03,208 And so, this is a guy who seems to have 810 00:37:03,208 --> 00:37:06,250 a huge future ahead of him. 811 00:37:08,208 --> 00:37:09,875 So that's one story of Ted Kaczynski. 812 00:37:11,042 --> 00:37:14,208 The other story of Ted Kaczynski is that this is someone 813 00:37:14,208 --> 00:37:17,375 who always felt alienated from his peers, 814 00:37:17,375 --> 00:37:20,542 he's always had difficulty making friends. 815 00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:22,875 - At Berkeley, he's not well liked by his students. 816 00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:24,458 They think that he's dull, 817 00:37:24,458 --> 00:37:27,333 and unengaged, and pathologically shy. 818 00:37:27,333 --> 00:37:31,750 And so, in 1969, he resigns without any explanation. 819 00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:36,750 In 1971, he moves to a tiny remote cabin in Lincoln, Montana 820 00:37:37,708 --> 00:37:39,167 where he lives a life off the grid 821 00:37:39,167 --> 00:37:41,708 without electricity or running water. 822 00:37:41,708 --> 00:37:43,208 - [Laurence] Despite the peaceful setting, 823 00:37:43,208 --> 00:37:45,875 his mind is not at rest. 824 00:37:45,875 --> 00:37:48,042 [suspenseful music] 825 00:37:48,042 --> 00:37:50,167 - [Lis] Now, Ted Kaczynski is living off the grid, 826 00:37:50,167 --> 00:37:51,458 as he wanted, 827 00:37:51,458 --> 00:37:54,750 but he's still writing letters to his family, 828 00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:56,875 diatribes against the government, 829 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:59,708 and socialization and computerization. 830 00:38:00,458 --> 00:38:03,375 Ted Kaczynski is not a happy guy. 831 00:38:04,167 --> 00:38:07,000 The FBI is optimistic. 832 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,417 Now they have a real lead. 833 00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:11,792 They speak with David, they speak with Linda, 834 00:38:11,792 --> 00:38:13,500 and the more that they compare letters 835 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:15,917 that he's written to them in the past, 836 00:38:15,917 --> 00:38:17,708 they think they have their guy. 837 00:38:17,708 --> 00:38:20,708 - [Laurence] On April 3rd, 1996, 838 00:38:20,708 --> 00:38:25,167 the FBI finally shows up at the Montana cabin. 839 00:38:25,167 --> 00:38:28,958 - They bring their operations teams to Lincoln, Montana. 840 00:38:28,958 --> 00:38:30,292 They have snipers, 841 00:38:30,375 --> 00:38:33,083 they have everyone ready in case things go wrong. 842 00:38:33,083 --> 00:38:34,750 Probably most importantly for them, 843 00:38:34,750 --> 00:38:37,542 they wanna have all of their evidence intact. 844 00:38:37,542 --> 00:38:40,708 - So for 18 years, the FBI has been chasing a ghost, 845 00:38:40,708 --> 00:38:43,625 someone they believe who's highly intelligent, 846 00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:46,708 well-educated, trained, and versed in terrorism 847 00:38:46,708 --> 00:38:48,625 and counter-terrorism activities. 848 00:38:48,625 --> 00:38:50,750 But when they arrest Ted Kaczynski, 849 00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:53,625 they find something completely different. 850 00:38:55,625 --> 00:38:59,250 - [Sami] His clothes have all of these holes in them. 851 00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:00,375 He's covered in ash. 852 00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:03,625 His face, his hair is matted. 853 00:39:03,625 --> 00:39:05,250 He smells. 854 00:39:05,250 --> 00:39:07,208 - As soon as they enter the cabin, it becomes clear 855 00:39:07,208 --> 00:39:08,625 they essentially have a confession 856 00:39:08,625 --> 00:39:11,583 to the UNABOM attacks in physical form. 857 00:39:15,833 --> 00:39:18,917 - [Laurence] It's a treasure trove of evidence. 858 00:39:18,917 --> 00:39:20,708 - Bomb making materials. 859 00:39:20,708 --> 00:39:23,375 There are things linked to the attacks, 860 00:39:23,375 --> 00:39:25,542 like the Smith Corona typewriter 861 00:39:25,542 --> 00:39:27,917 that was used to type copies of the manifesto, 862 00:39:27,917 --> 00:39:30,667 that was used to type some of the letters. 863 00:39:30,667 --> 00:39:35,708 - [Lis] They find 40,000 pages, journal pages, 864 00:39:35,708 --> 00:39:38,500 which explain every single bomb, 865 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:40,750 how to build a bomb even. 866 00:39:40,750 --> 00:39:44,375 But Ted Kaczynski is proud of his work, 867 00:39:44,375 --> 00:39:47,083 and he writes about it in these journals. 868 00:39:47,083 --> 00:39:50,083 - Under the bed, they find an aluminum wrapped package 869 00:39:50,083 --> 00:39:53,083 addressed to an aerospace company in Texas, 870 00:39:53,083 --> 00:39:56,833 and sure enough, there is a live bomb inside. 871 00:39:58,292 --> 00:39:59,958 - [Laurence] One of the longest 872 00:39:59,958 --> 00:40:04,792 and most expensive manhunts in US history is finally over, 873 00:40:05,625 --> 00:40:08,000 but the quest to fully understand the Unabomber 874 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,750 carries on. 875 00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:12,375 - [Sami] So what exactly were the Unabomber's motives? 876 00:40:12,375 --> 00:40:14,500 Was this person just evil? 877 00:40:15,625 --> 00:40:18,042 Were they somebody that was just insane? 878 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:22,625 - Look, Ted Kaczynski could've gotten away with this 879 00:40:22,625 --> 00:40:25,458 for years longer than he did, 880 00:40:25,458 --> 00:40:28,583 and it was really his wanting that attention 881 00:40:28,583 --> 00:40:30,500 and wanting that recognition, 882 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:33,250 and getting that manifesto published 883 00:40:33,250 --> 00:40:35,000 that led to his arrest. 884 00:40:37,792 --> 00:40:41,708 - In January of 1998, Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty, 885 00:40:41,708 --> 00:40:45,708 and is moved to an isolated cell in a Supermax prison 886 00:40:45,708 --> 00:40:50,667 in Colorado, where he dies by suicide in 2023. 887 00:40:51,708 --> 00:40:54,167 David Kaczynski, long torn by his decision 888 00:40:54,167 --> 00:40:59,042 to turn in his own brother, collects the $1 million reward, 889 00:40:59,042 --> 00:41:00,333 but turns it over 890 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:02,708 to the families of his brother's victims. 891 00:41:02,708 --> 00:41:04,542 I'm Laurence Fishburne. 892 00:41:04,542 --> 00:41:07,708 Thank you for watching this Case Closed episode 893 00:41:07,708 --> 00:41:10,542 of History's Greatest Mysteries. 894 00:41:10,542 --> 00:41:12,542 [suspenseful music]