FBI profiler in ‘Unabomber’ case donating files to Cal U

By CHRISTINE HAINES

chaines@yourmvi.com

Twenty-five years ago today the FBI arrested Ted Kaczynski, the notorious “Unabomber,” ending his 17-year crime spree that killed three people and wounded 24 others.

The FBI profiler whose work led to Kaczynski’s arrest will donate his professional papers about the case to the Pennsylvania Center for Investigative and Forensic Sciences at California University of Pennsylvania. 

James R. Fitzgerald, a retired FBI supervisory special agent and a pioneer in the field of forensic linguistics, analyzed Kaczynski’s writings, which resulted in the arrest. He is donating what he describes as “six overstuffed boxes” containing “every single thing that Ted Kaczynski wrote up to the time of his arrest.” 

Also included are Fitzgerald’s  text analysis reports from the investigation and media accounts of the UNABOM investigation and Kaczynski’s arrest and prosecution. 

The trove includes copies of official FBI and Department of Justice files relating to the UNABOM investigation and prosecution, letters Kaczynski wrote to his mother and brother, his 35,000-word handwritten manifesto and an autobiography, journal and notes recovered from Kaczynski’s remote cabin in Lincoln, Mont.

“These documents are really the only place in the world where the relevant investigatory files are stored,” said Cal U criminal justice professor Dr. John Cencich.

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