1942-
Terrorist

Antitechnology Serial Killer.

Over a seventeen-year period, a mysterious terrorist mailed or planted sixteen package bombs that killed three people and wounded twenty-three others, and he managed to elude the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Postal Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms until 3 April 1996. He was dubbed the "Unabomber" because his first targets were related to universities (un) and airlines (a). His identity became known only when his brother recognized his antitechnology rantings in a manifesto published in the Washington Post and contacted federal authorities.

Background.

Theodore John Kaczynski was born in Chicago on 22 May 1942. He went to Harvard on scholarship at age sixteen and then earned a Ph.D. in math from the University of Michigan. Upon graduation in 1967, he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He resigned suddenly from...