#90: Discussing Manhunt: Unabomber with Jim Fitzgerald
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🗓️ 20 September 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The RCP Team (Jim Clemente, Laura Richards and Lisa Zambetti) welcome back friend of the podcast and former FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald to discuss his new Discovery Channel miniseries "Manhunt: Unabomber". The series dramatized Fitz's role in tracking down and catching the notorious mad bomber.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, it's Lisa Z from RCP. |
| 0:10.0 | In today's episode, we talked to our old friend Jim Fitzgerald about his TV series Man Hunt Unibomber, |
| 0:17.0 | which is based on his experience in the Hunt to catch Ted Kaczynski. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the same session where Laura's internet went out, and we had a lot of problems connecting people. |
| 0:26.0 | So the best we could do in the situation was have Laura and Jim call in on their cell phones and record from there. |
| 0:32.0 | So the sound quality is not what we would hope for, but we know you will enjoy this conversation with Jim C, |
| 0:39.0 | Fitz, Laura, and myself discussing Man Hunt Unibomber. |
| 0:45.0 | It's iconic. The most famous police sketch in history is the Unibomber. |
| 0:51.0 | The terrorist called Unibomber is planning to blow up an airliner sometime during the next six days. |
| 0:56.0 | There's target airlines, scientists, computers, forestry people. |
| 0:59.0 | We have done every kind of victimology. His victims are totally random. |
| 1:06.0 | Smart, extremely precise. |
| 1:10.0 | He was underappreciated, victimized, and in angry. |
| 1:15.0 | You figure out the philosophy, you can figure out the man, you can correct the code. |
| 1:21.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. |
| 1:24.0 | This is Jim Clemente, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds, |
| 1:30.0 | as well as co-creator of Discoveries Man Hunt Unibomber. |
| 1:35.0 | And with me today from London is Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard, |
| 1:41.0 | and founder and director of Palais in National Stalking Applicancy Service. |
| 1:46.0 | And I'm Lisa Zanabedi, I'm the casting director for Criminal Minds, where Jim Clemente is my colleague. |
| 1:51.0 | And today, again, a very special guest that's our, I think our most common guest person on this show, and that is... |
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