Posts Tagged: Unabomber

Reporter’s Notebook: On the trail of the Unabomber

Ted Kaczynski, circa 1968. Photo by George Bergman, courtesy of the Oberwolfach Photo Collection

by BY JOHN HOWARD posted 06.14.2023

No town had closer connections to the case of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski than Sacramento: His first and last murder victims over a 17-year period occurred here – the first in an alley behind an Arden Fair computer-rental store, the last in an office downtown across from the state Attorney General’s office on I Street.

Capitol Weekly Podcast: Kevin Eckery

An early law enforcement rendering of the Unabomber, based on the description of a witness.

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 04.04.2018

Twenty two years ago this week, federal authorities arrested Ted Kaczynski — known as the Unabomber — in his remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana, ending a 17-year reign of terror. While the Unabomber had no strong ties to the Sacramento region, both his first and final murders occurred here. It was in 1995 that Kaczynski, a Harvard-trained mathematician and forest recluse, claimed his final victim, Sacramento timber lobbyist Gil Murray.