In 1978, a mysterious package was found in the car park of an Illinois University, the events that followed kicked off a reign of terror that confounded the FBI for nearly two decades. So who is the Unabomber? And can they be brought to justice? As the FBI's own website asks: "How do you catch a twisted genius who aspires to be the perfect, anonymous killer - who builds untraceable bombs and delivers them to random targets, who leaves false clues to throw off authorities?" Listen to find out...

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.biography.com/news/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-today
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/unabomber
https://www.history.com/news/unabomber-letter-bombs-investigation-arrest
https://www.history.com/topics/crime/unabomber-ted-kaczynski
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/unabomber-netflix-tv-series-ted-kaczynski (ongoing legacy)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unabomber-arrested-longest-manhunt-fbi-history-over-180968744/ (The trial)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ted-kaczynski-unabomber
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Kaczynski
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/terrorism/ted-kaczynski-the-unabomber/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1995-07-02-9507010436-story.html (chronology of the bombings)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/04/11/multimedia/office-hours-buckley-crist-and-the-unabomber/ (podcast about the first bomb)
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a050979unasecondnu
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/health/research/24epstein.html
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2007/01/29/unabombers-act-still-affects-prof-gelernter/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-25-mn-7044-story.html
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