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Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The UNABOM investigation was one of the longest manhunts in American history - it lasted for 18 years starting in 1978. Before the FBI started investigating Ted Kaczynski, they looked into a number of suspects, including a group of friends who loved playing Dungeons & Dragons. This episode is part of the podcast Project Unabom. Listen to the entire series on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/Project_Unabom. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, and members-only merch. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from Krakan.
0:03.0	Krypto is like the financial system, but different.
0:07.0	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,
0:11.0	or your outrageous food delivery habits.
0:13.7	crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.
0:18.4	Krakhan, see what crypto can be.
0:21.3	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:25.0	This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Hi, it's Phoebe.
0:34.0	Today we're bringing you one of our favorite episodes from our friends at the show Project
0:39.6	Unibom.
0:41.8	Project Unibom is an Apple original podcast about Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who planted
0:47.8	bombs around the country for nearly 20 years.
0:51.1	He died in prison in June.
0:53.0	But the story we're bringing you today isn't about him.
0:58.0	Before we begin, this episode contains mentions of suicide. Please use discretion.
1:06.6	Here's Eric Benson.
1:08.6	It's the early summer, 1978. A college kid named Greg has just come home to Evanston, Illinois, a suburb just north of Chicago.
1:16.0	He's a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI, in New York State, studies mechanical engineering. He's finished up his classes and
1:25.4	come home a couple weeks early to start his summer job working for the City Forestry
1:29.2	Department, trimming trees, that kind of thing. One day in early June, he rides his bike back home from work.
1:36.4	And I pulled up to my house and there's nobody round, I just started walking in and I was approached
1:42.2	by two men in black suits and they said
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