Ted Kaczynski: The True Story of the Unabomber

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, we’re discussing the compelling story of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. We’ll begin by exploring his seemingly unremarkable upbringing, and shed light on the chilling accounts of his involvement in inhumane experiments during his college years. Finally, we’ll discuss the profound impact of his decades-long reign of terror, which kept authorities on edge and the nation gripped with fear. Thank you to our sponsors! Treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off at honeylove.com/MOMS20. To get 15% off your first order, go to Blueland.com/MOMS. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off of your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code MOMS at lumedeodorant.com/MOMS! #lumepod Moms and Mysteries is sponsored by BetterHelp. Let therapy be your map, with BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/MOMS today to get 10% off your first month. New merch! Check out Moms and Mysteries Threadless! You can also get new episodes a day early and ad free, plus merch and more at Patreon.com/momsandmysteriespodcast Listen and subscribe to Melissa’s other podcast, Criminality!! It’s the podcast for those who love reality TV, true crime, and want to hear all the juicy stories where the two genres intersect. Subscribe and listen here: www.pod.link/criminality Check-out Moms and Mysteries to find links to our tiktok, youtube, twitter, instagram and more! Make sure you subscribe and rate our show to help others find us! Sources: https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/unabomber https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-unabomber-at-harvard https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/crime-history/was-the-unabomber-also-the-zodiac-the-tylenol-killer https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories/psych0109.htm https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1047180.html https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/the-unabomber-timeline/article_d6b6c3e3-1c24-55d2-8d00-4f25fb152594.html https://www.history.com/topics/crime/unabomber-ted-kaczynski https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unabomber-arrested-longest-manhunt-fbi-history-over-180968744/#OeDcFOkLydqFrJ0M.99 https://www.newsweek.com/end-road-176752 https://www.npr.org/2017/08/22/545122205/fbi-profiler-says-linguistic-work-was-pivotal-in-capture-of-unabomber https://www.history.com/news/unabomber-letter-bombs-investigation-arrest https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/crime-and-law-enforcement-biographies/unabomber https://www.newsweek.com/manhunt-unabomber-fbi-ted-kaczynski-james-fitzgerald-643594 https://www.history.com/news/unabomber-letter-bombs-investigation-arrest https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SACRAMENTO-A-Trail-of-Bombs-When-Theodore-J-2797082.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/unabomber/29229.stm https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=3757 https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/ted-kaczynski https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/29/us/in-unabomber-s-own-words-a-chilling-account-of-murder.html Remaining sources can be found at momsandmysteries.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast a true crime
0:26.8	podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa hi Melissa.
0:30.3	Hi Melissa. Hi Mandy how are you? I'm surviving. How are you, Melissa? I'm doing really well, thank you.
0:38.3	This weather is crazy, not just hot. Not just hot hot we have a new thing now
0:44.7	torrential downpours constantly I don't even know what else to say about it
0:50.1	it's hot and raining a lot it's the worst combination of things.
0:54.8	Mandy text me this morning and I said I mean it was like flooding everywhere and I
0:58.8	said I'm getting ready to grab two animals on my way and she wrote me back this is the most confusing thing you've
1:05.2	ever written me which honestly I took as like a badge of pride because I read a lot of confusing things but I was
1:15.0	we've been referring to Noah's art because it really was just insane this morning.
1:18.0	It was. It was. We've been getting a ton of bad weather.
1:21.0	Normally, I feel like we're used to getting bad weather in the afternoon
1:25.3	Afternoons totally fine yeah so but it's been like different this time around because it's been storming in the morning which is like it just makes it so hard to get out of bed and get motivated to do anything
1:36.9	I don't want to leave the house I don't like to drive in the rain so it kind of puts off my whole day and
1:47.4	like today I feel like I didn't even get started on my life until it was like lunchtime basically So I'm like what's happening right now? So yeah the rain can go away.
1:50.9	I honestly I think I would rather it just be hot than be hot and raining.
1:55.4	No, I agree because you can't even dress for that. It's just a confusing thing
2:00.2	Everything gets wet except for my shoes because I have those cool shoes that we got a few
2:05.3	months ago and you know I wear them like a badge of honor as well. I just love them. But like my
2:10.7	clothes are all wet so everything feels sticky and then you're hot and yeah at least if you're hot you can just put the acy on and you don't have to worry about things like frogs which all I hear is frogs at night now because of all the
2:21.6	Because they three everywhere.
2:23.0	It's rough. We're going through it guys.
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