Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 7

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Smoke billowed through the house as Susan ran outside, shouting for help. Their elder daughter, alerted by her mother’s cries, also sought assistance. The blast came from a pipe bomb crafted by the Unabomber.Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura summoned the ATF, who sifted through the kitchen debris and identified parts consistent with the Unabomber’s previous devices. As always, the bomber used everyday items like nails, crafting handmade switches and polished wooden components. The 9½-by-7¼-by-2¼-inch white cardboard box was reinforced internally with additional cardboard and housed a handmade wooden container. Inside lay an aluminum pipe, no longer than 9½ inches, sealed with metal end plugs secured by two locking pins. The pipe contained an explosive blend of sodium chlorate and aluminum, triggered by four nine-volt batteries, a custom initiator, and a wooden-metal anti-open switch—the Unabomber’s hallmark. To heighten the device’s lethality, he included one-inch green paneling nails and double-edged razor blades.

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0:45.1	Music Welcome to the serial killer podcast, the podcast dedicated to serial killers, who they were, what they did and how.
1:19.9	Episode 254. I am your humble host, Thomas Roseland, Weiborg Thu.
1:28.5	We ended the previous episode by entering the 90s, my favorite decade of all time.
1:36.5	I know I am biased, having grown up in the 80s and 90s, but by all metrics, it truly was a great time to be alive. Music, like the world
1:49.3	had never heard before, came into being. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Marilyn Manson,
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2:03.1	Most people, and here I am talking about the West, have a very high standard of living.
2:09.7	There was far less conflict in society, and no major wars in the world as we have today,
2:17.2	except on the Balkans.
2:19.3	On television, groundbreaking and culture-defining shows came like pearls on a string.
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2:31.3	and very few people had even heard of the Internet.
2:36.6	But not all was bliss and idyll.
2:41.0	One man hated what the world had become, and hated everyone in it.
2:48.3	He was hell-bent on destruction on a massive scale.
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