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Hunting the Unabomber : the FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the capture of America's most notorious domestic terrorist / Lis Wiehl with Lisa Pulitzer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Nelson Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xiv, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780718092122
  • 0718092120
Other title:
  • FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the capture of America's most notorious domestic terrorist
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Contents:
Part I. It's UNABOM ;FC strikes again ; A serial bomber? ; Major case conference ; Moving west ; No perfect crime -- Part II. Only a matter of time ; Ted ; Failure to connect ; Becoming the Unabomber -- Part III. The elusive motive ; Green light ; UNABOM task force -- Part IV. The big picture ; Setting precedents ; "What is UNABOM?" -- Part V. A new direction ; Three-part plan ; Refocusing the inquiry ; Lines of inquiry ; Go guy" -- Part VI. Profiling a killer ; "Warning" ; To publish or not to publish ; 55,000 leads and counting ; A break in the case ; Getting close ; The UNABOM typewriter ; "I am not mentally ill."
Summary: "From Lis Wiehl, New York Times bestselling author and "storyteller extraordinaire" (Steve Berry), with New York Times bestselling crime writer Lisa Pulitzer, the definitive, gripping account of the longest pursuit in FBI history: the quest to find and capture the domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski."-- Provided by publisher.Summary: April 3, 1996. A team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and professor who had abandoned society decades earlier. Few people knew his name, Theodore Kaczynski, but everyone knew the mayhem and death associated with his nickname: the Unabomber. , It was the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history: for two decades Kaczynski had masterminded a campaign of random terror through bombs sent in untraceable packages, his identity a maddening mystery. Wiehl reconstructs the tension-filled hunt to identify and capture the mysterious killer. -- adapted from jacket
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The spellbinding account of the most complex and captivating manhunt in American history. "A true-crime masterpiece." -- Booklist (starred review)

On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and professor who had abandoned society decades earlier. Few people knew his name, Theodore Kaczynski, but everyone knew the mayhem and death associated with his nickname: the Unabomber.

For two decades, Kaczynski had masterminded a campaign of random terror, killing and maiming innocent people through bombs sent in untraceable packages. The FBI task force charged with finding the perpetrator of these horrifying crimes grew to 150 people, yet his identity remained a maddening mystery. Then, in 1995, a "manifesto" from the Unabomber was published in the New York Times and Washington Post, resulting in a cascade of tips--including the one that cracked the case.

Hunting the Unabomber includes:

Exclusive interviews with key law enforcement agents who attempted to track down Kaczynski, correcting the history distorted by earlier films and streaming series Never-before-told stories of inter-agency law enforcement conflicts that changed the course of the investigation An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at why the hunt for the Unabomber was almost shut down by the FBI

New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl meticulously reconstructs the white-knuckle, tension-filled hunt to identify and capture the mysterious killer. This is a can't-miss, true crime thriller of the years-long battle of wits between the FBI and the brilliant-but-criminally insane Ted Kaczynski.

"A powerful dual narrative of the unfolding investigation and the life story of Ted Kaczynski...The action progresses with drama and nail-biting intensity, the conclusion foregone yet nonetheless compelling. A true-crime masterpiece." -- Booklist (starred review)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index.

Part I. It's UNABOM ;FC strikes again ; A serial bomber? ; Major case conference ; Moving west ; No perfect crime -- Part II. Only a matter of time ; Ted ; Failure to connect ; Becoming the Unabomber -- Part III. The elusive motive ; Green light ; UNABOM task force -- Part IV. The big picture ; Setting precedents ; "What is UNABOM?" -- Part V. A new direction ; Three-part plan ; Refocusing the inquiry ; Lines of inquiry ; Go guy" -- Part VI. Profiling a killer ; "Warning" ; To publish or not to publish ; 55,000 leads and counting ; A break in the case ; Getting close ; The UNABOM typewriter ; "I am not mentally ill."

"From Lis Wiehl, New York Times bestselling author and "storyteller extraordinaire" (Steve Berry), with New York Times bestselling crime writer Lisa Pulitzer, the definitive, gripping account of the longest pursuit in FBI history: the quest to find and capture the domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski."-- Provided by publisher.

April 3, 1996. A team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and professor who had abandoned society decades earlier. Few people knew his name, Theodore Kaczynski, but everyone knew the mayhem and death associated with his nickname: the Unabomber. , It was the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history: for two decades Kaczynski had masterminded a campaign of random terror through bombs sent in untraceable packages, his identity a maddening mystery. Wiehl reconstructs the tension-filled hunt to identify and capture the mysterious killer. -- adapted from jacket

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