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...question of motive is precisely the matter troubling investigators for the FBI, who believe the mail bomb that killed Mosser was the work of a devious serial bomber who has eluded them for 16 years. Their ongoing investigation -- dubbed Unabom because the criminal's early targets were people at universities and airlines -- has drawn together a string of 15 incidents since 1978 that have killed one other person and injured 23. But while authorities can say with certainty that this latest blast bears some of the Unabomber's trademarks -- the return address on the package named a fictitious sender...
...when he left a concealed bomb outside a Salt Lake City computer store. A witness there helped police fashion their composite sketch of a white man now in his late 30s or early 40s, nearly 6 ft. tall, with fair hair, a thin mustache and glasses. Then the bomber vanished for more than six years, leading some authorities to speculate that he may have been in prison or a psychiatric facility. In June 1993 he re- emerged when a bomb injured Charles Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California at San Francisco. Two days later, Yale computer scientist David...
Both Harvard police and the FBI believe the bomber is operating on the West Coast, but they have few clues to the location and identity of the Unabomber...
...warning came after a mail bomb killed New Jersey advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser on Saturday. The FBI has labeled the culprit the Unabomber because he or she has been known to target universities and airlines. Two people have been killed and 23 have been injured by the bomber, who last year maimed an assistant professor at Yale...
Officials think the bomber may have lost his job to a computer, causing him to attack people with ties to high technology, according to Wednesday's Boston Herald...