Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 1

The Serial Killer Podcast

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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They are then escorted into the gas chamber, often under heavy security, and secured to a chair with restraints around their wrists, ankles, waist, and chest to prevent movement. A stethoscope or other monitoring device is typically attached to their chest, extending outside the chamber so a physician can listen for the cessation of heartbeat or breathing, which signals death. Once the convict is secured, the chamber is sealed shut, creating an airtight environment. The execution team, located in a separate control room, activates the mechanism to initiate the gas. In the classic cyanide gas method, a container of sulfuric acid is placed beneath the chair, and a lever is pulled or a switch flipped to drop cyanide pellets or crystals into the acid. This chemical reaction produces hydrogen cyanide gas, a colorless, odorless, and highly toxic substance that interferes with the body’s ability to use oxygen, binding to hemoglobin and preventing it from carrying oxygen to tissues and organs.

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0:09.1	Just click the link in the podcast dedicated to serial killers.
0:41.3	Who they were, what they did, and how.
0:44.5	Episode 248.
0:47.7	I am your humble host, Thomas Roseland Weiburg Thune.
0:52.5	Tonight I bring to you, dear listener, a true serial killer
0:57.0	superstar. It's been a while since I last covered one of the dark stars, those killers whose
1:05.6	acts became cultural phenomenon. So tonight, we travel once again to the United States of America,
1:14.4	and as for so many of those legendary tales of murder, tonight's saga began in the 1960s.
1:23.3	I am of course talking about the man who created the by now rather trite trope of writing
1:30.2	a manifesto to justify his killings, none other than the killer named by the FBI as the
1:38.8	Unabomber.
1:40.4	Ted Kaczynski.
1:42.6	Enjoy.
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2:31.3	Very soon I plan to publish yet another film review, and I do believe you will
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