Evil Genius: The FBI agent who snares serial killer UNABOMBER reveals how he did it

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ted Kaczynski was a math genius who admitted to building bombs he planted or mailed to targets around the US that killed 3 people and wounded 23 between 1978 and 1995. Dubbed the UNABOMBER by the FBI -- and acronym for "Universities and Airlines Bomber, Kaczynski constructed his deadly devices in a primitive cabin in a remote area of Montana. Guests include retired FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald, who was key in the arrest and conviction of Kaczynski. Also forensic psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman, and Crime Stories' co-host Alan Duke.

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0:40.0	Talk about an evil genius.
0:49.0	Someone so incredibly mentally gifted with an IQ around 170 but uses that brain power for evil.
1:01.0	Terrorizing the country.
1:05.0	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
1:09.0	A math, prodigy, an academic career.
1:15.0	How did he come to the decision to abandon a career at university to follow a primitive lifestyle living in the middle of nowhere and basically a log cabin without indoor plumbing?
1:31.0	How does this happen?
1:33.0	And how does an evil genius living in the middle of nowhere in a remote cabin without electricity or even running water?
1:43.0	And in the woodlands of Montana, how does this guy manage to terrorize the country with a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology?
2:01.0	How does your mind get so twisted when you could have been anything working at NASA, teaching at Chicago or MIT?
2:11.0	How do you end up in a cabin in the middle of the Montana woodlands, masterminding and executing a bombing, a lethal bombing campaign across the nation?
2:25.0	The evil genius. Theodore John Kaczynski, commonly known as the Unibomber.
2:33.0	With me, Jim Fitzgerald former FBI agent. This guy, Jim Fitzgerald, is actually the star of a movie called Man Hunt Unibomber.
2:46.0	His character was played by Sam Worthington. It was on ID and now on Netflix, Man Hunt Unibomber.
2:55.0	He was also the author of a series of books called A Journey to the Center of the Mind. You can find it at his website, JamesRFistGerald.com or Amazon.
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