-
full name Theodore John Kaczynski he was born on may 22nd 1942 -
He skipped the eleventh grade, and by attending summer school, he graduated at age 15. Kaczynski was one of his school's five National Merit finalists and was encouraged to apply to Harvard University. While still at age 15, he was accepted to Harvard and entered the university on a scholarship in 1958 at age 16. -
ted left the school he worked at and bought 1.4 acres of land just outside of Lincoln Montana to get away from society -
in june of 1978 he took a job working for his brother but his behavior was too much and his brother was forced to fire him after he insulted coworkers.then he vowed to never see his family again -
The man that the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski came to our attention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university. Over the next 17 years, he mailed or hand delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans and injured nearly two dozen more. -
Bomb explodes in cargo hold during American Airlines flight, injuring 12 and forcing emergency landing at Dulles International Airport. -
not all of his bombs were successful this bomb was found in business classroom at University of Utah in Salt Lake City is safely defused. -
Bomb kills Hugh Scrutton near his Sacramento computer store -
Bomb injures Gary Wright near his Salt Lake City computer shop. Unabomber sighting leads to police sketch. -
Prosecution and defense attorneys agree with a government psychiatrist that Kaczynski is competent to stand trial as his own attorney -
After Judge Burrell rejects Kaczynski's request to represent himself, Kaczynski pleads guilty to being the Unabomber. -
Bomb injures Charles Epstein, University of California at San Francisco geneticist, at home. -
Unabomber sends 35,000-word manifesto to The Washington Post and New York Times. Threatens to bomb unspecified location if it is not published. Post, Times publish manifesto.
-
ted as caught after his brother tipped off the fbi and arrested for the crimes of the unabomber -
Public learns that federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials rejected Kaczynski's offer to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty -
An unrepentant Kaczynski is sentenced to four life terms in prison with no possibility of release.