Ted Kaczynski was the culprit in the FBI’s longest and costliest manhunt ever. Before the identity of the “Unabomber” was known, a pervasive bias appeared to have infiltrated the FBI’s UNABOMB (UNiversity and Airline BOMBer) task force. Agents became convinced their culprit was a low-IQ, disgruntled airline employee either living in Cincinnati or Cleveland.
In reality, Kaczynski was a genius: child testing scored his IQ at 167. He graduated from Harvard at 20 and earned his doctorate at 25. Before retreating to the Montana wilderness, he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Only after the media was allowed to publish his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, did agents get the break in the case they so desperately needed. David Kaczynski, Ted’s brother, recognized his thought patterns and writing style and tipped off investigators.
By the time Kaczynski was apprehended, his bombs had killed three people and severely injured 23 more.
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