Seeing the Unabomber back in the news this week reminds of the time Tom Bates and I first broke open the case. It was two months before the FBI’s solving the Unabomber mystery in April 1996. I recall doing a number of radio and TV interviews about our amazing discovery. True, it turned out Bates and I had fingered the wrong man, but nobody’s perfect. It was interesting while it lasted.
Monday’s front page headline in the New York Times read: “Unabomber Wages Legal Battle To Halt the Sale of His Papers.”