Unabomber for a million (15 photos)

From love to hate one step. Only sometimes it stretches on for many years.





However, the same tiny step separates genius and madness. And the story of this man is almost a textbook example. this statement.



A happy family

Back in 1942, Wanda and Theodore gave birth to their long-awaited firstborn. The boy grew up withdrawn and quiet, avoided his peers, although The child's intellect was in perfect order. The woman tried to drive son to a psychologist, but the specialist seemed too cold to Wanda and detached. And the therapy stopped.

A cure for loneliness and first successes



Ted and David

The medicine appeared seven years later: my parents gave it to me little Theodore's brother David. However, that year the boy went to school and discovered Her Majesty Mathematics. Science is so fascinating Ted that he became the first student in the class. The child's interests are not was limited only to studies. Ted loved classical music and taught languages, was fond of numismatics.



Brothers

Testing upon transition to secondary school showed an incredible result - 167 points, with an average IQ of scientists of 125 points. The younger brother was no worse, but for parents who concentrated on the firstborn, it was Ted who became the light in the window.



Harvard graduate

The young prodigy graduated from school as an external student. And at the age of 15 he became the youngest student at Harvard. By the way, one of my father’s friends tried dissuade parents from skipping grades because it is morally the teenager was not yet ready for adulthood. And at the university age The gap with my classmates began to be felt even more acutely. But for parents it's there was a question of prestige. And what happened happened.

Cruel experiences did not add mental stability Dr. Henry Murray, in which students, including Theodore Kaczynski, were subject to severe criticism of his essays with simultaneous monitoring of physiological reactions.

Man versus technology. Who will win?



Young teacher

Despite all life's difficulties, at the age of 20 Theodore graduated Harvard and became the youngest professor at Berkeley University. True, he did not work for long, only a couple of years. Left without explanation though The young mathematician was predicted to have a brilliant career.

It should be noted that Theodore, despite his intelligence and quite attractive appearance, relationships with girls did not work out. Inept attempts to flirt with fellow students were only ridiculed. And in the end the guy gave up trying to find a mate.

David, who by that time had received a degree in philology, Things weren't going much better on the love front. The guy still has University had a sweetheart, Linda Patrick. The girl didn’t let him in, and didn’t push away her boyfriend, but ended up marrying someone else.

The brothers rejected by women and society chose the path hermits. Ted bought a plot of land in the mountains of Montana in 1971 and built there is a hut without amenities. David hid from the world in the Texas desert. Time the brothers whiled away developing philosophical doctrines with which exchanged letters to each other. The men led an ascetic lifestyle, got food by small hunting, poked around in an improvised vegetable garden, the huts were heated using a fire. A little food and money sometimes parents tossed me up.

Manifesto



Manifesto

Ted was categorically against progress, considering technology evil that will destroy humanity. And even developed my own a manifesto that was based on the thoughts of other philosophers. Its essence boiled down to the fact that the industrial revolution and its results were disastrous for humanity, industrial-technological society imposes on man false, artificial needs and goals, depriving him of true freedom and driving into stress and depression, and destroys nature and species diversity. Instead of natural values, a person receives substitutes - entertainment industry, television, excess violence and sex. And for The destruction of this system is only suitable for violent revolutionary path.

Are you my brother or not?



Ted's cabin in the woods

The man spent seven quiet years in thought. And then There were two impacts at once. The first was the betrayal of his brother: his beloved Linda divorced, and mug and henpecked David happily He married the one who played with the poor guy as she wanted. Theodore reacted to news of marriage in an angry letter on 20 pages. Relationships between ended with brothers.

The second blow was the construction of a road near his hut. After watching the destruction of an island of wildlife, Ted decided to take revenge society and draw attention to its vices.

Unabomber



Photo identikit of Kaczynski

Kaczynski was reborn. Instead of weird Unabomber came to the hermit mathematician (UNiversity & Airline BOMber). The terrorist's victims were not accidental. They became people personifying technological progress, which Kaczynski hated - computer store owner, oil company employee, businessman, engaged in logging.

With the money his family sent, Ted methodically collected bombs. And he sent it to those who, in his opinion, posed a threat to nature. The result of Kaczynski’s many years of activity were three killed and 23 wounded.

Retribution and Punishment



Hut inside

Linda read Ted's letters to his brother. AND got worried. I showed them to a psychiatrist, and the specialist confirmed that they were the author poses a potential threat.

At the same time, the Unabomber, who was being searched for 125 FBI agents, sent a 50-page manifesto to several national publications. After reading, David and Linda are even stronger became convinced that the Unabomber was Ted Kaczynski. The style matched manifesto and letters addressed to David. Couple for a few months dedicated to reading and analysis. The man went to the FBI. Terms cooperation became anonymity and a promise not to demand the highest measure for my brother.



Arrest

Ted Kaczynski was taken from his cabin in the woods on April 3, 1996. of the year. A lone terrorist who tormented the country for 18 years and who led the FBI by the nose, fully admitted his guilt. The verdict was 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.



Before the court

His 30 pieces of silver worth $1 million, which David received for betraying his brother, the younger Kaczynski handed over to the one he founded fund to help victims and families killed by the Unabomber.



Ted Kaczynski in prison

The Unabomber himself stated that all evil comes from women (in this case from Linda), and that he would never do that to his brother. After all If David had learned about the identity of the terrorist before his marriage to Linda, he I would consider him a hero, not a criminal.



David and Linda after the verdict was announced

The controversial Unabomber and the shy mathematician Theodore Kaczynski died at the Federal Prison Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina) June 10, 2023 three weeks after his 80th birthday.



Still from the series “Hunt for the Unabomber”