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Wayne Opsahl. Utne Reader. Unmasking the Unabomber: Ellen Mcpheeters. This was an article about how the Unabomber's brother, David Kaczynski, and his wife Linda turned Ted Kaczynski over to the FBI. It was Linda Kaczynski who first suspected Ted Kaczynski as the Unibomber. She was not Always positive that he was the Uabomber, but based on what David Kaczynski had told her about his brother and what the media was saying about him, that there was a chance that he could be the one. At the time, she was working in Paris where there were bombings going on in the subways and people were becoming Fascinated with the Unibomber in the United States, so the FBI was releasing more and more information to the public about the Unibomber. Linda decided to confront her husband and tell him about what she believed could be true about David's brother Ted, when he arrived to meet her in Paris. It took Linda a month or two to convince David that his brother was fitting a lot of the profiles that the FBI was saying about this person. At first, David thought that she was nuts, but after some urging from her to look a little closer at some old letters that he had received from Ted, and the Unabomber's Manifesto that had been published in the paper, David thought that there was fifty chance that he could be the one. They decided to turn the information over to the FBI after taking some things into consideration. One of those thing was that Ted could receive the death penalty if they did, which was uncomforting to David. In the end, They bit the bullet and turned him in knowing that there was a chance that if convicted, that he could receive the death penalty.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 1999

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Hi Wayne, I think this one needs a bit of work also. It appears you have run together some themes that may need a bit of separation and exploration. E-mail me so we can discuss this further. Thanks, John Hansen

-- Anonymous, April 10, 1999

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