{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Ted Kaczynski: Inside the Hunt for the Unabomber","description":"How does a teenage math genius become the Unabomber?\n\nFor nearly two decades, Ted Kaczynski carried out a bombing campaign across the United States, killing three people and injuring more than twenty others. Then he demanded that newspapers publish a 35,000-word manifesto explaining why.\n\nIn this episode of UNMARKED, I speak with retired FBI Special Agent James Fitzgerald, the criminal profiler and forensic linguist who worked the UNABOM investigation and helped connect Kaczynski’s writing to the man behind the bombs.\n\nWe go back through his childhood as an extraordinarily gifted and isolated kid, Harvard, the controversial psychological experiments conducted by Henry Murray, the persistent claims about MKUltra, his brief career as a mathematics professor at Berkeley, his retreat to a remote cabin in Montana, and the rejection and resentment that appear again and again throughout his life.\n\nWas Ted Kaczynski simply a brilliant man driven insane by modern society? Did the Harvard experiments really help create the Unabomber? Or has the mythology surrounding Kaczynski obscured a much more complicated story?\n\nResearch in This Episode:\n\nFrancis, R., Hawes, D. J., & Abbott, M. (2016). “Intellectual Giftedness and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review.” Exceptional Children, 82(3), 279–302. DOI: 10.1177/0014402915598779.\n\nDowney, G., & Feldman, S. I. (1996). Implications of rejection sensitivity for intimate relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(6), 1327–1343. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.6.1327\n\nShow Notes:\n\nIf you want to go deeper into the Charles Manson case, my book Charles Manson: The Last Words documents years researching the story and speaking directly with members of the Manson Family — including Charles Manson himself.\n\nRead it here:\nhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQ6QRVQ7\n\nIf you want to follow the cases as I’m working on them, you can find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesbuddyday/\n\nFor those who want to examine the evidence directly, complete phone calls and documents are available inside UNMARKED: Case Files, our research portal, along with ad-free episodes.\n\nJoin here:\nhttps://www.patreon.com/Unmarked_TrueCrimePodcast\n\nUNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast is hosted by Audioboom.","author_name":"UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5167828-unmarked-a-true-crime-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43869419/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}