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  COURT TV ONLINE - TRIALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kaczynski describes his motives for writing, to include that he intended to start killing people and that when caught, he was concerned people would perceive him to be a "sickie." His writings were an effort to prevent the facts of his psychology from being misrepresented.
Kaczynski was arrested on 04/03/96 and initially was in custody at the a county jail in Montana.
Kaczynski further indicated that he was aware of these potential conflicts with his attorneys much earlier but had focused with the defense team on the motion to suppress evidence during the first several months of 1997, knowing that should that be successful, the issue of mental illness would not need to be pursued.
www.courttv.com /trials/unabomber/documents/psychological.html   (19808 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ted Kaczynski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kaczynski, who pleaded guilty in 1998 to letter bomb attacks that killed 3 people and wounded 28 others, traced some of his emotional instability and fear of mind control to those tests." In 1962 Kaczynski graduated from Harvard.
Kaczynski's specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory.
As of 2004, Kaczynski was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ted-Kaczynski   (4842 words)

  
 Theodore Kaczynski -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kaczynski was hired as an assistant professor of mathematics at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of California, Berkeley) University of California, Berkeley, in the fall of 1967.
Kaczynski wrote a letter to (Click link for more info and facts about The New York Times) The New York Times claiming that his " (An advocate of anarchism) anarchist group" called FC was responsible for the attacks.
Kaczynski's lawyers attempted an (Click link for more info and facts about insanity defense) insanity defense, which he rejected; a court-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed paranoid (Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact) schizophrenia but declared him competent to stand trial.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/theodore_kaczynski.htm   (2590 words)

  
 The Smoking Gun: Archive
Kaczynski is also vexed by Florence's mail system, which never seems to pick up his outgoing parcels in a timely fashion, loses mail addressed to him, and delivers items meant for other prisoners.
Kaczynski's opinion of psychiatry is well known: he once refused to be examined by government shrinks because he feared being labeled "sick" and has acknowledged dreaming about killing psychiatrists.
Kaczynski's progress reports describe him as a model prisoner who is not permitted to work "due to his medical condition." That classification seems to puzzle Kaczynski, according to a notation, dated May 3, 2003, he made on one report.
www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/tjknew1.html   (524 words)

  
 Theodore Kaczynski
Theodore Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942) is an American terrorist who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by engaging in an almost eighteen-year-long campaign of sending mail bombs to various people, killing three and wounding 29.
He went to Harvard College at the age of 16, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and held a position as assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1969.
As of 2004, Kaczynski was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/theodore_kaczynski.html   (1147 words)

  
 Vote for Ted Kaczynski / 2008 : NOLA Indymedia
Ted Kaczynski, on the other hand, has a proven record of using the least expensive method to deliver his payload: the US Postal Service.
Ted Kaczynski's sensitivity to the cost of his hobby makes him a better financial planner than George Bush.
Ted Kaczynski is well educated and excelled in his studies.
neworleans.indymedia.org /print.php?id=3748   (365 words)

  
 OF INTEREST (2)
Similar to the Columbine High School murderers, Ted Kaczynski was ostracized in the lowest social stratum in his high school - that of the "grinders" or "briefcase boys." Ted built a bomb in a chemistry lab to impress his peers in high school, although it hardly had the power of a fire cracker.
Kaczynski's thesis advisor at the University of Michigan was heavily involved in anti-war politics.
Ironically Kaczynski who couldn't relate to women was captured after his brother, at the insistence of his wife, went to the FBI with the suspicion that Ted Kaczynski was the Unabomber.
ofint2.blogspot.com /2004_08_29_ofint2_archive.html   (2441 words)

  
 Current Events: The mad bomber? Trial will decide if Ted Kaczynski is the crazed Unabomber - Cover Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ted was a math genius who breezed through high school in three years and was admitted to Harvard.
David Kaczynski hopes to be able to testify in the trial to persuade the court that Ted should be given life in prison instead of the death penalty.
But the prosecution plans to stress the horrible nature of the crimes Ted Kaczynski is charged with -- one victim was decapitated in front of his family as he opened a package bomb -- and demand that he be given the death penalty.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n13_v97/ai_20165367   (1038 words)

  
 Theodore Kaczynski - Wikipedia
Kaczynski stammt von polnischen Einwanderern ab und wuchs in Chicago in einfachen Verhältnissen auf.
Teds jüngerer Bruder David erkannte den Schreibstil seines Bruders im Manifest und verständigte nach eigenen Ermittlungen die Behörden, die Ted Kaczynski am 3.
Kaczynski begann eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Forscher an der Universität in Michigan, schloss aber weiterhin wenige Freundschaften.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski   (657 words)

  
 Serial Killer Ted Kaczynski Unabomber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ted K: -- A volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s - early 1960s.
Kaczynski was a highly intelligent but socially withdrawn young man who went into rapid decline due to paranoid schizophrenia.
Kaczynski contends federal prosecutors ignored repeated requests for the return of property seized in April 1996.
www.karisable.com /skazunab.htm   (879 words)

  
 CNN - The Unabomb Trial
To the FBI, Kaczynski, 55, was the prize at the end of the nation's longest, most expensive hunt for a serial killer.
In the eyes of federal investigators, Kaczynski is a cold, calculating, evil man whose contempt for technological advances led him to mastermind the bombings that killed three and injured 29.
Ted ran over, asking, "Are you OK?" David replied that he was concerned about the saw, one of his brother's few tools.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1997/unabomb/accused/intro   (342 words)

  
 ELPSN > Profile > Ted Kaczynski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kaczynski says he began an intensive study of how to identify wild edible plants, track animals and replicate primitive technologies, approaching the task like the scholar he was.
Kaczynski lamented never being able to accomplish three things to his satisfaction: building a crossbow that he could use for hunting, making a good pair of deerhide moccasins that would withstand the daily hikes he took on the rocky hillsides, and learning how to make fire consistently without using matches.
Kaczynski wanted to talk about every aspect of the techno-industrial system in detail, and further, about why and how we should be working towards bringing about its demise.
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk /profiles/ted.html   (2768 words)

  
 Court TV Online - The Unabomber
From tests, interviews with Kaczynski and those who knew him, and studying Kaczynski's journals which document over 40 years of his life, Johnson concluded in a January 1998 report that the Unabomber had characteristic signs of schizophrenia, but also said he was competent to stand trial.
Kaczynski eventually pleaded guilty to 13 counts of bombing and murder and is now serving several consecutive life sentences.
Kaczynski felt his parents emotionally abused him and constantly sought an apology, but none of their apologies were "viewed as sincere or acceptable."
www.courttv.com /trials/unabomber   (725 words)

  
 Ted Kaczynski's Sacramento Defenders, 2 Articles
Kaczynski has been represented by federal public defenders while in jail in Montana, so it is assumed that at least part of his representation will come from Denvir's office once the bombing charges are filed in the Eastern District of California.
During the 1995 trial, Clarke was an integral part of the defense team, handling closing arguments in the guilt phase and assisting in the penalty phase.
That experience could be important in defending Kaczynski, particularly in light of the fact that few federal practitioners have handled death penalty trials.
www.lectlaw.com /files/cur71.htm   (2049 words)

  
 CNN - Judge rejects Unabom suspect's appeal - April 25, 1996
His lawyers filed a motion last week saying leaks by law enforcement sources to the media were so numerous and detrimental that their client could not receive a fair trial.
Kaczynski, a 53-year-old ex-mathematics professor who had been living with no electricity or plumbing in a remote Montana cabin, is being held without bond on charges of possessing explosives, including a live pipe bomb and bomb-making materials found in his cabin.
Federal sources said the bomb-possession charge is merely a way to hold Kaczynski while investigators try to piece together more evidence that could prove Kaczynski committed the bombings over the last 18 years that have killed three people and injured 23.
www.cnn.com /US/9604/25/unabomber   (361 words)

  
 Unabomber
Ted made the decision to keep a diary in the first place primarily because he was worried that people might believe that he was mentally ill:
Kaczynski appeals to the Supreme Court to be released due to government leaks.
Kaczynski attempts to commit suicide by hanging himself with his underwear in the Sacramento County Jail.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/serial-killers/unabomer   (1684 words)

  
 The Catholic Advocate
Kaczynski, whose brother Ted was responsible for mail bombings that killed three people and injured 23 between the years of 1978 and 1995, saw his brother evade the death penalty.
Linda Kaczynski had never met Ted, who had become estranged from the family, but she had read some of his letters to David.
Kaczynski recounted his horror and the onset of depression as he began to truly consider that his brother might be the source of one of the most expensive manhunts in U.S. history.
www.rcan.org /advocatearchive/121703/news4.htm   (1067 words)

  
 Ted Kaczynski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This comment by Ted Kaczynski's lawyer, Quin Denvir, following Kaczynski's plea of guilty to the Unabomber charges in return for life imprisonment without parole, summarizes the quality of his defense team.
This article by Michael Mello, a prominent public defender, explains why Ted should have been entitled to the defense of his choosing, comparing him with abolitionist John Brown.
Ted was not some mentally retarded defendant like the one Clinton had executed in Arkansas to boost his election chances in 1992.
againstsleepandnightmare.com /wildcat/Ted.html   (586 words)

  
 BBC News | Unabomber | Profile: Theodore Kaczynski
Arrested in April 1996, Mr Kaczynski matched much of the FBI's Unabomber profile which described a middle-aged white male who was "familiar with university life," took great pride in bomb-making, and had links to Chicago and Northern California.
Ted Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, and grew up in Evergreen Park, a working-class suburb of Chicago.
The same year, Mr Kaczynski worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was widely recognised as a teacher likely to get tenure.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/unabomber/30008.stm   (234 words)

  
 PARANOIA - The Scapegoating of Ted Kaczynski
She said that when Ted was around his cabin digging in his garden, etc. he was dirty.
You describe Ted Kaczynski as a human scapegoat, "an Atlas whose 'shrug' continues to reverberate in the consciousness of the Group Mind of America mystica." Is this part of the meaning of the billboard?
Kaczynski, the government agent in the movie, is at the center of an incredible double-cross.
www.paranoiamagazine.com /scapegoat.html   (2669 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Home - Unabomber blows up over jail mail snafus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ted Kaczynski, who terrorized the nation with letter bombs for 17 years, is angry because his jailers are messing with his mail.
Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence at the supersecure federal prison in Florence, Colo., for a letter bomb campaign that killed three people and maimed several more, has plenty of other complaints.
Despite his gripes, Kaczynski, whose fellow inmates include terrorists like Ramzi Yousef and shoe bomber Richard Reid, is considered a model prisoner.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/131528p-117311c.html   (313 words)

  
 10-20-2004 Press Release: Public And Scholars Have First Amendment Right To Original Writings Of "Unabomber" ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kaczynski, who pled guilty to the "Unabomber" crimes, plans to donate his journals to the University of Michigan.
Kaczynski's court-appointed attorney filed a brief that raised First Amendment concerns and the government then shifted positions, stating it would retain the originals, but that Kaczynski's criminal defense attorneys had copies of all the materials, and that they were free to donate copies to the university.
In rejecting Kaczynski's motion, Judge Garland Burrell stated that donation of Kaczynski's papers would provide him with a "psychic benefit" that he did not deserve because of the atrocious nature of his offenses.
www.aclunc.org /pressrel/041020-speech.html   (965 words)

  
 Ted Kaczynski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kaczynski disappeared for 6 years between 87 and 93.
The whereabouts of Kaczynski during those years are unknown.
Watch a movie I made of Ted Kaczynski morphing into the Zodiac.
www.olesin.50megs.com /zodiac/ted_kaczynski.htm   (93 words)

  
 Ted Kaczynski Syndrome
Ted Kaczynski Syndrome justmenow: Lately I have had such an urge to just disappear.
Re:Ted Kaczynski Syndrome Safetykc: You are here though and I wanted to respond and give you a HUG anyway...
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 Salon | Newsreal: How mad was Ted Kaczynski?
Kaczynski, 55, faces federal charges relating to four of the 16 Unabomber attacks which occurred from 1979 to 1995.
Ted Bundy, Kenneth Bianci the Hillside Strangler, John Wayne Gacy, who killed 33 boys and men in Illinois...
Kaczynski's writings suggest that he saw technology as responsible for preventing mankind from being truly free -- like he was getting revenge on anyone associated with technology for screwing things up.
www.salon.com /news/1997/11/14news.html   (808 words)

  
 Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication: The mad bomber? Trial will decide if Ted Kaczynski is the crazed ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trial will decide if Ted Kaczynski is the crazed Unabomber.(Cover Story)@ HighBeam Research
Trial will decide if Ted Kaczynski is the crazed Unabomber.(Cover Story)
Kaczynski is charged with being the Unabomber -- a terrorist who, for 18 years, sent package bombs through the mail, killing three people and maiming 29 others.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20165367&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (211 words)

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