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American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ted Kaczynski faces a painful rejection in high school. Then he endures an abusive psychology experiment at Harvard. Kaczynski may be an academic prodigy, but he feels lonely and out of place. His solution? He's going to get revenge on modern society.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American scandal early and ad free right now.
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0:09.5	Earlier this year, Theodore Kaczynski died in prison of an apparent suicide after serving 25 years of a life sentence.
0:17.0	Before his capture, he was known as the Unabomber, and he was one of the most prolific and evasive domestic terrorists in U.S. history.
0:24.6	This is a special encore presentation of our series on the Unabomber, a story that originally
0:29.2	aired in 2020.
0:30.6	We hope you enjoy it. It's the morning of July.
0:34.0	It's the morning of July 2nd, 1982.
0:47.0	Patrick Webb hurries through campus at the University of California, Berkeley.
0:51.0	His eyes dart left and right. He spots police cars, a crowd of students. There's
0:56.4	yellow crime scene taped stretch across the computer science building. And everywhere, onlookers
1:01.8	point and Murmur.
1:03.0	They all seem to be saying the same thing, that there was an explosion, a big one,
1:08.0	it might have been a bomb.
1:10.0	That's why Patrick Webb is here.
1:12.0	Webb is a bomb expert who works for the FBI.
1:15.0	He's 37 years old and normally he has an easy smile.
1:19.0	But today his expression is grim, because he knows the onlookers are right. This could have been a
1:24.4	deliberate act of violence and so he needs to move fast. Webb needs to figure out
1:29.3	what exactly happened and if there's any evidence of foul play he and the FBI need to start looking for suspects before it's too late.
1:37.0	Web reaches the computer science building and flashes his ID.
1:43.4	The officers move aside and Webb ducks beneath the yellow tape.
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