Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 4
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🗓️ 26 May 2025
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The homemade green cylindrical box perched atop a can on the floor was studded with dials and gauges, or so the instructor said later. Angelakos saw wires—loop switches attached to the sides running up each upright shaft of a wooden handle. This in turn was attached to the wooden box that rested on top of the gallon can. Angelakos reached out for it tentatively, and this slight movement was enough to stretch the wires. The bomber had incorporated into his device an ancillary component built to look like a piece of test or measurement equipment. In reality it was a piece of faux technology serving no function except that of exciting curiosity. The tension he unwittingly applied when he touched the device detonated an eight-and-a-half-inch-long, half-inch-wide galvanized pipe sealed on either end with threaded caps.
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| 0:47.8 | Who they were, what they did and how, episode 251. |
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| 0:58.7 | Last episode ended with the discovery of the Unabomber's most notorious signature, |
| 1:04.1 | a small metal disc engraved with the letters F.C. |
| 1:08.3 | Found among the shrapnel left by one of his bombs. |
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| 2:03.2 | So don't miss out, and head on over to patreon.com slash the serial killer podcast now. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a phantom known as the Junkyard Bomber |
| 2:45.0 | cast a dark shadow over America's heartland, his deadly devices striking fear into universities and corporate |
| 2:54.2 | officers alike. The United States Postal Service, desperate to halt this reign of terror, |
| 3:02.1 | dangled a $5,000 reward, a hefty sum in those days, for any tip leading to his capture. |
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