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...until the search of Kaczynski's cabin, federal authorities were not totally sure that the Lincoln hermit was their man. No one had ever seen Kaczynski mail a bomb. Several clues the Unabom task force has long held in hand are not foolproof. The few fingerprints recovered from the Unabomber's efforts, say investigators, are missing the central whorls; even if Kaczynski's matched, a jury might not be persuaded. Unknown to many, the bombs had yielded bits of hair and fiber, but the cops could not be sure they were the perpetrator's. Nor were they sure they...
...cabin was a version of one of the bomber's letters to the New York Times. As America's trial watchers are aware, there is no such thing as a sure thing. But the federal agents in Montana, at least, are convinced that the proof is in and the hermit of Lincoln and the Unabomber are one and the same...
...that he fit their expectations so uncannily. He was, as they had surmised, a white male, middle-aged, a loner whom no one would miss if he vanished for weeks at a time. An ideal neighbor who kept to himself--just as the entire town of Lincoln described "the hermit on the hill." The agents had expected a neat, meticulous man, someone who probably kept careful notes and lists. And they found, amid his books, 10 three-ring notebooks full of data and diagrams and test results, the careful professor's lab report on the quest for the perfect bomb...
...East Texas that he bought more than 10 years ago. About five years ago, he moved to Schenectady to marry a high school sweetheart, Linda Patrik, an associate professor of philosophy at Union College. It is not clear how much contact he had in recent years with his hermit brother. If David was in touch with Ted, did he ever notice that bombs started going off when his brother went traveling...
...Harvard alumnus who is the FBI's prime suspect in the 17-year Unabomber case left a life in academics to become what people in the rural town of Lincoln, Montana, call a "hermit...