Ted Kaczynski, AKA the Unabomber, was born on May 22nd 1942, in Evergreen Park, Illinois. He had a mother and father who presumably only wanted him to do his best in school, and were very supportive of him and his endeavors there as well. Kaczynski was an academic superstar. By the time he reached the age of sixteen, he skipped two grades, and had entered Harvard University on a scholarship. In addition to that, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He was extremely intelligent, and had a good relationship with his parents. But, when you have an extremely intelligent person that has a grudge, and decides to snap, you have a potential killer. This is exactly what happened to Kaczynski. He tended to target his former place of employment, the University of California at Berkeley. Perhaps he had held a grudge against a fellow employee or didn’t agree with a recent decision of the company. Before one of his bombs had a fatality, he planted around 20 bombs over 15 years …show more content…
During the time of limbo between Kaczynski’s first bomb, to his last, he communicated with the newspapers in hsi town. The FBI knew what he was doing and decided to go along with it to see what information they could find out about him through his notes. The press would eventually go on to publish his manifesto. As soon as the press released the statement David Kaczynski, Ted’s brother, realized that his brother had a very similar writing style to the notes of the bomber. David immediately turned his brother in for a $1,000,000 reward. The FBI found him in his log cabin in Montana, where the profile had suggested they would find him. When Kaczynski was brought into to court, he detested that his lawyer wanted him to plead insanity, so he refused to. He was proud of what he did, and he wanted people to know what he did. He plead guilty and was sentenced to life in Colorado State