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to a hardware store or electronics store. He made his own chemicals out of commonly available chemicals. He made his own switches that he could have bought at Radio Shack. He spent hours whittling, cutting, and filing metal and wood to remove any hints of their origin. He would repeatedly sand down all the wooden parts to his devices to remove any possible fingerprints and make the boxes that encased his bombs look store bought. The FBI Crime Lab originally nicknamed him the “Junkyard Bomber” because the internal parts were constructed of leftover materials such as furniture pieces , plumbing pipes, and sinktraps. Across the continent, hundreds of FBI agents were pursuing the Unabomber. They have deployed some of the worlds most powerful computers. Task Force members crunched

and recrunched scraps of data through a “massive parallel- processing computer borrowed from the Pentagon”, sifting though school lists, drivers license registries, lists of people who checked certain books out of libraries in California and the Mid West (Gibbs, 31). The super-computers kept tract of the enormous data base that the FBI had kept on possible suspects. The computers searched criminal records and personal histories of thousands of suspects. When the FBI got a new clue or hunch they would process it through the computers and see what came up and who matched the latest profiles. They have enlisted the sharpest crime-fighting minds. The Unabomb Task force was a multiagency team comprised of the top experts from the FBI, ATF, local police departments where the crimes

took place, and from the Office of the Postal Inspector. And they have chased down 20,000 tips, gone door to door to machine shops and scrap yards, and interviewed thousands of suspects since the initial bombing at the University of Illinois. The Unabomber had kept investigators busy with a seemingly endless list of obvious and subtle clues to his identity. The first written clue being a message found from a bomb planted at Berkeley stating “Wu- It works! I told you it would-R.V.” Wu and R.V. are most likely professors at Berkeley but “whether these clues really mean anything, or whether they are just the bombers way of toying with the law wont be known till he is caught” (Marx, 2). The following are clues to the identity of the Unabomber: WOOD Wood is the most common

theme in the clues to finding the Unabomber, from its use as a material in the bombs to its appearance in the names and addresses of victims. Small twigs were glued to a couple of the devices found. Some of the bombs were encased in boxes hand crafted out of hardwood. He polished and sometimes varnished his wood pieces, but it was clear, from amateurish joints, that he is not a trained woodworker. Bombs were fashioned with 2 x 4’s to look like a pile of debris. A bomb was mailed to United Airlines president Percy Wood, who lived in Lake forest. One bomb was packaged inside the novel “Ice Brothers” by Arbor House, whose symbol is a tree leaf. False return addresses have included such places as Ravenswood and Forest Glen Road and from such people as Benjamin Isaac Wood. THE

9-DIGIT CODE To authenticate his written communication the Unabomber included a nine- digit code (550-25-4394) on all of his letters and manuscripts. Task Force members discovered that the number was a real Social Security number for a small-time career criminal from Northern California but determined he had been in jail at the time of some of the bombings. He has since violated parole and vanished. Ironically, he had a tattoo that read “PURE WOOD”. Possibly, the Unabomber knew him or had met him before. STAMPS The Unabomber avoids taking his packages to the post office and uses a lot of stamps instead. He didn’t seem to lick the stamps (that would leave saliva traces), at least in his more recent bombings, it is possible that he licked the stamps in earlier bombings. He

usually used stamps featuring the American Flag or playwright Eugene O’Neil, author of the “The Ice Man Cometh”. Nathan R On a 1993 letter from the Unabomber, authorities found the almost imperceivable impression of the words that may have been written on a piece of paper written on the letter. It said “Call Nathan R Wed 7pm” and prompted a nationwide search for Nathan R. Investigators used drivers license records and phone listings to find more than 10,000 Nathan R’s. They interviewed them all, but found no answers. This was more likely than not a red-herring placed by the Unabomber to tease and confuse the Task force. F.C. These initials have been included in some way in most of the bombs. The initials were scratched into most of his bombs. The initials, also, were