Unabomber Letters Uncovered from 50 Years Ago: The Contents Are Eerie

On May 25, 1978, the first bomb of 16 made by Theodore Kaczynski went off, causing the recipient minor injuries. With each new package Kaczynski made, the bombs were more sophisticated, and fear gripped the public.

The Unabomber, as he came to be known as — “UN” for university and “A” for airline, which were two of his main targets — was reclusive, wily and dangerous.

“This guy left practically no way to trace back any evidence that was left at the scene — parts of the bombs, components, anything else,” said Special Agent Kathleen Puckett, who worked on the task force, according to the FBI. “He was a real cipher.

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“The profiling unit usually has a lot of evidence at a scene to review to come up with a profile of an unknown offender. In this case, they had no latent fingerprints, no hair and fibers that led anywhere, not even — even, in some of these devices along the way, the batteries were even stripped. You couldn’t even trace the batteries back to where they were purchased or acquired. And a lot of the wood and different things looked just like junk that was picked up by the side of the road.”

But for all the false clues and meticulous scrubbing, it was his own writing style that eventually gave him away.

According to the FBI, after Kaczynski released a 35,000-word