Ted Kaczynski, a Chicagoan with middle-class family and loving parents, had a younger brother who admired him.
David certainly worshipped his brother for a reason.
A person with an IQ above 140 can be called a genius, Hawking is 160, Einstein is 165, and Ted is 167.
He jumped to Harvard at the age of 15, then studied all the way, got his Ph.D., and became a university professor at the age of 25.
That was the youngest professor of mathematics ever at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ted has a quiet, sensitive personality and is a bit shy, but also loves animals and outdoor activities. His hobby is elongating trumpets and collecting coins, and he looks good and cute.
But who would have thought? He was such a person who actually became a terrorist. There were 24 homemade bombs that killed three people and injured 23 people, causing panic.
Ted's terrorist activities were carried out for 17 years, during which time he became the number one enemy of the FBI, but the FBI could not find clues and people for 17 years.
If it weren't for Ted's sister-in-law Linda, who had never met, and one day read an article thousands of miles away and deduced that the criminal was Ted, I am afraid that it would not be a pending case, and it would be protracted.
1.
After Ted's arrest, his mother burst into tears, remembering Ted's childhood.
He had no friends but his family, so much so that his mother had long been worried that he had psychological problems and had wanted to take him to an autism test.
His mother just didn't think that Ted's change had something to do with her educational philosophy. She always wanted her two sons to be better and constantly pressed.
Ted's biggest change began in college, which may be a problem for prodigies.
Ted, 15, was still a child mentally, and he was mixed up with the most immature freshmen and simply couldn't adapt.
He is already introverted, but he is more introverted, and he spends most of his spare time in his room or library.
Then the next year, his situation was even worse.
(Ted's University)
Harvard had a psychology professor at the time, an intelligence officer during World War II, who had built Hitler's psychological profile.
After returning to Harvard in 1947 as a principal investigator, he was still passionate about the CIA project.
This project is about mind control, which explores how to shape and destroy people's personalities and develop brainwashing and mind control techniques. This includes torture, sleep deprivation, psychedelics, and more.
Their research is intended for the enemy, and the ideological antagonist is the main object.
The study was both immoral and cruel, especially in the case of unsuspecting, unsuspecting students, of whom Ted had the misfortune of being one.
Ted, no matter how high his IQ was, could not beat the famous psychology professor, and he thought that it was really a stress test of human psychological effects. He also happened to want to prove that he was very resistant to pressure, and it was nothing.
His mother, on the other hand, quickly signed the permission paperwork she sent. Because she was informed that this was a psychological study of talented young people, Ted was an underage and he couldn't make his own decisions.
Ted's mother certainly wanted her son to be better, and she was extremely enthusiastic.
The cruelty of the experiment was unimaginable to Ted's mother, and Ted could not have imagined it. During the experiment, the glare of the light hit Ted's face, and the law student across from him laughed at, belittled, and rebuked him for everything he could. The professor would then also show them video recordings, as well as data on their anger and embarrassment, pointing out their angry, most powerless expressions.
It represented humiliation, failure, embarrassment, and devastation, which Ted later described as "the worst experience of my life." And this experiment, which he did not know how many times to repeat, left him alone in the study for three years.
His professor did not care about the age, personality, and psychological state of the students, and did not counsel or treat them afterwards, he only cared about his research results.
2.
Young Ted has such a personality, encounters such a situation, not only has no friends, but also can not contact women.
He earned his Ph.D. by genius, but that doesn't mean his mind is developing simultaneously.
(Family photo, Left Ted, Right David)
Ted was unsuccessful as a college professor, and the students didn't like him, and he didn't like them. He felt that many things did not need to be explained at all, and it was completely intolerable to people with slow learning ability.
Ted's spirit is gradually disintegrating, and he sometimes sits in his bedroom and hears his neighbors talking about him.
Ted was so dissatisfied that he was initially cruel to himself.
Taylor longed for women, but he couldn't get them, so the prodigy had a sudden idea.
The only way to reach a woman was to become a woman, and he actually thought of sex reassignment surgery.
But when he got to the hospital, he changed his mind.
Ted couldn't get rid of his bad emotions, and he couldn't be cruel to himself, and finally changed direction. One day, he thought of killing the psychiatrist and immediately felt much better.
(Brothers as teenagers.) Right Ted, Left David)
He later wrote about this feeling:
It's like phoenix nirvana.
The future seemed to me to be completely empty, and I wanted to kill that psychiatrist.
I didn't care if I was dead, so I said to myself, why not really kill those people I hate.
What matters is not my words, but my feelings, the whole new fact is that I feel like I can really kill people.
My despair liberated me, I no longer cared about death, I no longer thought about the consequences. I said to myself, I could really break the mold and do something bold, irresponsible, or criminal.
But he finally said, I will kill, but I will try not to be discovered, so that I can kill again.
The demon in Ted's heart awakened, but it was only theoretical, not enough for him to really start.
3.
Ted resigned from college shortly afterwards on the grounds that technological advances would have disastrous consequences for humanity, and that, out of conscience, he could not continue as a professor of mathematics to facilitate the process.
Ted's mother secretly suspects that Ted just wants to "escape from a society with whom he doesn't know how to get along", but the Ted family supports Ted's decision and begins to raise him.
Ted's younger brother, David, was more supportive, feeling that his brother was too principled. So when Ted was going to go to the countryside, he followed suit.
The brothers bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Lincoln, Montana, not far from flathead National Forest, and Ted began building a small house there.
The house had no water or electricity, but there was a creek outside. At first, David wanted to build a room as well, live there with his brother, and come to Walden Lake, but he soon found that he couldn't stand it and left.
David graduated from Columbia University, in fact, he is also a bully, and he later became a major in academia.
Ted's family should be said to love Ted very much, and Ted and his brother also have a deep affection, which is the person he loves the most. When my brother was born, he was seven years old, and he cried with joy at that time.
Ted's family had been hoping that Ted would eventually return to society, but Ted stayed like that and never returned.
For the first few years, Ted had been reading, or learning wilderness survival skills, and in addition to learning to hunt and identify various wild edible plants, he had also tried hybrid carrots.
However, loneliness never saved him. Ten years can't either. He had been torn apart by something.
Later, the place was no longer calm, and gradually developed from the first three people to more and more new houses. Ordinary motorcycles, snowmobiles, mountain bikes, recreational vehicles continue to drive in and out, and there are even planes that often fly in.
Ted couldn't stand the planes the most, and he had shot them with a shotgun, but hadn't succeeded.
This frustrated him so much that he once said in his diary:
The outdoors are polluted, but "I still love it." I think it's like a mother loving a crippled child. It is a love full of sorrow. ”
Ted called the plane a "sonic boom," and that sound had a particularly serious impact on him. In July 1979, after Ted dropped two bombs, he ran to a hunting camp far away from humans to relax, but because a plane was always roaring overhead, he quickly returned.
Ted, because his cabin was frequently intruded and had secretly killed a neighbor's dog, had no idea that this seemingly innocuous hermit would be a super killer.
Ted was not unaware of his problem, he had taken the initiative to contact the doctor, but because the cost of the visit was too high, he used email therapy, and self-treatment.
Ted survived in that wilderness hut, which had no water or electricity, was incomparable, was extremely cold, and had a budget of only $400 a year, thanks to his perseverance and his high dislike of the outside world. As outsiders continued to break in, his relationship with his family became worse and worse.
He accused his parents of having abused him emotionally and verbally, and at the heart of his problem was that his parents took his education above all else.
Ted has only been in touch with his brother ever since, but in 1989, when David moved to New York and married his high school girlfriend Linda, Ted didn't even want his brother.
He wrote a 20-page letter to David accusing him of abandoning him and living an impure life.
Ted's loved ones finally had none.
4.
Ted is a man who grew up in the dark, he is angry with his parents, he is angry with the whole world, so his action finally begins.
In 1978, Ted sent his first bomb to a professor at the University of Chicago, and then he nearly blew up an American Airlines jet.
Once Ted started, he couldn't stop blowing up graduate students at the University of Berkeley, bombing a computer shop owner in California, bombing a geneticist, adding computer science professors, bombing advertising managers, logging brokers, and endlessly.
In any case, his targets are university professors, graduate students, scientists, computer operators, advertisers, and airlines.
The raw materials for Ted's bombs, which were made by himself or stolen from nearby workshops and scrap dumps, were largely untraceable.
The fingerprints on the bomb parts, Ted will be completely removed, some debris, waste, he will use acid treatment, and the bomb uses wires and so on, he will also make them untraceable.
Ted sometimes deliberately leaves clues, such as name, address, etc., but that is all Ecstasy. He would sometimes deliberately make the parcel underpaid and let people call back. And the place where the mail was returned was where he wanted to create the explosion.
Because Ted also had unexploded bombs, the police did find some branches and leaves, but they were all too common.
In addition, Ted's bombs will be engraved with the word "FC", but no one knows what it means.
Then the information that the police can get is mainly these:
This person is not a random perpetrator, and the target he chooses may be related to technological and environmental damage.
This person should be a natural person, and since he has good skills and mistakes, it means that the environment in which he made bombs is not too good.
Since the criminal can accurately control the time and conditions of the explosion, he should have a high intelligence.
Ted blew up the plane, and the plane attack was under the jurisdiction of the FBI, so the case was taken over by the FBI.
Ted's initial explosion targeted universities, so the FBI named him "College Bomber."
At that time, the side writing technology could not enter the room, but the FBI had no choice but to use it.
At first, analyst John Douglas argued that the terrorist should be a white male in his twenties and thirties with above-average intelligence who was a "nonsocial obsessive-compulsive loner."
At the same time, because the earliest bombing occurred at Northwestern University, it is indicated that he may be from Chicago and has links with academia.
Douglas's profile is quite close to the truth, but unfortunately, the FBI does not take it seriously. They argue that the man should be a blue-collar mechanic, a skilled man, or a disgruntled former airline employee.
These two judgments are contradictory, so the FBI can only continue to be wrong, for 17 years.
In fact, they are just good, and it is not easy to catch Ted. After all, Ted is far away from society, his intelligence is super high, and the kind of profile of the police is still too wide.
A person who can survive alone for 25 years in the harsh wilderness is far away from elites and blue-collar workers.
5.
The series of explosions made by Ted began in 1978 and ended in 1995, and his initial bombs were made of gunpowder, matches, wood and other ready-made things, and only the one on the plane was more complicated.
There's a barometer on it, which detonates automatically as soon as the plane rises to a certain altitude.
Behind him was more and more serious, each one more powerful, more stealthy, more deadly.
Tracking down "college bombers" was the longest-running and most expensive investigation in FBI history, but the FBI only got closer to him in 1987.
That time, Ted was seen dropping a bomb on a parking lot. Witnesses described Ted's appearance, and the police simulated his portrait.
But because Ted would carefully disguise himself every time he came out, the police still didn't find it. He once deliberately left a few hairs in the package, so that the FBI once again wasted a lot of manpower and material resources.
However, the bomb that Ted sent in April 1995 was destined to be his last.
Ted sent a shoebox-sized, shoebox-shaped package on April 24, when Gilbert Murray, executive director of the California Forestry Association, received it with a sense of surprise.
Because the package was sent to his predecessor, William Dennison. Denison has been a vocal voice for the logging industry for years and has led charges against environmental groups. It is said that he is far less cute than Murray.
But Murray opened the box after two o'clock in the afternoon, and as a result, he became the third victim of the Ted bombing.
The incident immediately put the FBI in an embarrassing position, because not only did they never stop it, but 17 years later, they still did not even determine the gender of the murderer.
Fortunately, behind this, Ted himself took the lead.
After Murray's death, both The New York Times and The Washington Post received a package containing a 78-page printed article titled "Industrial Society and Its Future."
The mailer also said that if one of the two families did not send his declaration, his bomb would reach a place unknown to him.
No one dared to ignore the threat of the "college bomber," the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI director, who gave immediate instructions and immediately issued them.
They actually want someone to find something between the lines.
Ted calls himself the "Freedom Club" in the article, all the while we have.
He said cars were originally a luxury and are now a necessity, and that technological advances have eroded individual freedom and created new social norms that people must own in order to remain in society. The so-called political, economic, and media structures will undermine personality and ecological stability.
It is also said that industrial society is a system of oppression of freedom, which regulates human behavior and creates the collective, but obliterates individual autonomy and deprives people of their original purpose in life.
While it brings certain convenience, it also makes people suffer in their hearts, so that people can only find empty things to fill.
In short, Ted is criticizing the negative effects of scientific and technological progress, and believes that the system can no longer be reformed, and that if human beings want to win freedom and find the true value of life, they can only abandon technology, return to nature, or violent resistance.
He even said that media propaganda makes people lose sight of their true motives, that it is difficult for individuals to have an impact on their normal forms of resistance, and that violent resistance is the only way.
Ted was crazy and astute, his proclamation was extremely inflammatory, and if terrorists, disgruntled crowds, learned from him to do it, it would be extremely dangerous, so the FBI was working nervously again, and they hung up a million bounty.
But then, their mailboxes exploded, and they didn't get a really useful clue.
At that time, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI were undoubtedly in a state of distress, and at this moment, Ted's younger brother David was also engaged in a key conversation with his wife, Linda.
6
The Ted bombing, and the manifesto he issued, was a sensation, and David's wife, Linda, had read the article.
She suddenly said to her husband at the end of that summer, "Have you ever thought that your brother is that person?" ”
David was taken aback. You've never met Ted, why would you think that?
Linda said that Ted had always been anti-technical, and his beliefs, as your mother had mentioned many times, were in line with those traits.
David says I'm also anti-technical, but that doesn't mean I have violent tendencies.
Linda said that if you didn't, it didn't mean your brother didn't. You are different people. I hope you go and read his article, no matter how unlikely.
Linda almost believed that the murderer was Ted, and she was terrified, and David promised to see it to appease his wife. As a result, he only went to see it a month later.
Ted was his favorite brother, he didn't want Ted to be that person, he struggled.
However, after David finished reading in the library, his heart became heavier and heavier. There was one sentence that particularly frightened him.
The article says that modern philosophers are not "dispassionate logicians," and that Ted used this for himself, david had never heard anyone else say such a thing outside of Ted.
There are actually many indications in the article that Ted is indeed like that person, and at that time, David was very distressed.
His father had already committed suicide in 1990 because of cancer, and his mother, who was 79 years old and very weak, was worried about whether she would be able to bear it after he reported it.
But a few months later, David set off. He eventually decided that more people needed more than he and Ted needed, and he was morally right.
David then went to the linguist and crime analyst James Fitzgerald, who carefully analyzed and compared every word of Ted's article based on the letters of the David brothers over the years, and finally decided that Ted was very suspicious.
(Fitzgerald in front of Ted's cabin)
So on April 3, 1996, the FBI took action.
Ted was sitting in the house that day, taking a loaded gun and preparing to do something, when he heard a knock at the door.
Ted asked, and the people outside said it was from the Forest Service, who had come for the land border.
Ted hated to be disturbed, and he walked out in order to end the conversation quickly. As soon as he came out, he was caught by two agents.
The agents then entered the house and searched, breaking out in a cold sweat.
(Federal agents who captured Ted)
A rope next to Ted's bed, attached to a burning device, would set fire to the house as soon as Ted felt dangerous, burn all his diaries and evidence, and run into the vast forest with a gun.
He had long been deep in the forest, hiding food, ammunition, and other necessities. They were enough for him to run to Canada and hide.
And that burning would certainly detonate a bomb in the house, indicating that if federal agents revealed their intentions in advance, they would be blown up.
7.
Federal agents found a great deal of evidence in Ted's house, which contained many books on history, metallurgy, chemistry, and anthropology. But Ted's diary was coded, so complex that it took the decoding experts a long time to unravel it.
Ted, who was caught, did not want to argue, and he even asked to fire his lawyer to defend himself. Because the lawyer had prepared sufficient evidence, he wanted to make him insane.
But the judge rejected his request.
Ted was furious at that moment. He knew that once the insanity was established, it meant that all his words would become crazy.
In his eyes, it was better to die.
The court's trial of Ted began on January 8, 1998, and in the end, Ted was not insane, but the prosecution also believed that he had paranoid division, delusional symptoms, and was already a psychopath.
So on January 22, the court reached a plea agreement with Ted, sentencing him to eight life sentences without parole.
Ted has been locked up in "Alcatraz island in the Rockies" ever since. During this time, he corresponded with curiosities and admirers and published two books. One of them is co-authored with a professor called The Technical Slave.
Rocky Mountain Prison was a fear for the inmates, as only skylights could be seen there, but Ted loved the lonely environment, and he was the most comfortable one.
Ted is one of the demons, but the hut where he lived has become a tourist hotspot. It's like the former home of a historical celebrity.
David later analyzed that Ted's empathy was eroded by a strong sense of disappointment, and that his hopes for the world were shattered by an apocalyptic vision.
He saw the threat through the distorted lens, and then his sense of integrity began to become distorted.
Affection is infinitely complicated, and David does not go to see Ted, but he says that he is always in love with his brother.
Perhaps, David loved and did not visit because he loved the one in his heart and was afraid of losing it completely.
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