FBI Enlists High-Tech Tools
HELENA, Montana - FBI investigators relying old-fashioned shoe leather
sophisticated forensic techniques Saturday worked FBI agents appeared
confident enlisted DNA analysis spy satellites sifted through small mountain
evidence collected 10-by-12-foot cabin surrounding woods 60 miles (100
km) northwest Helena reportedly sent FBI laboratories Quantico, Va. rejected
industrial society late 20th century letters news organizations rambling
35,000-word essay published demand last year, federal authorities have
tackled case own terms example, evidence experts using advanced DNA science
effort provide genetic match between suspect dried saliva found postage
stamps used mail letters deadly packages stakeout tiny cabin went several
weeks used advanced monitoring equipment possibly including spy satellites.
Legal experts said weeks months before charges brought possibly California
Gov. Pete Wilson declared see suspect tried case, prosecutors time further
court hearings scheduled April 17, when grand jury meet Great Falls, Montana,
determine whether sufficient evidence indict bomb charge unclear whether
evidence brought before Montana grand jury case mentioned court proceedings
meantime waived right bail held Lewis & Clark County jail described
docile prisoner although 24-hour suicide watch due high-profile nature
case America's most-wanted criminals since first devices blew Northwestern
University 1978 1979 federal task force built huge database years agents
frustrated inability come anything more murky sketch man seen fleetingly
witness parking lot draw psychological profile serial bomber, theorizing
highly educated but anti-social individual, possibly connections Chicago
northern California areas several attacks took place raised Chicago, educated
Harvard taught University California Berkeley, closely fits psychological
profile circulated FBI name turned FBI files early 1994, according ABC
News, arrested tip younger brother noticed similarities writings documents
discovered family's suburban Chicago house |
Unabomber Suspect's Cabin
found defused live bomb searching mountain cabin former
university math professor Theodore Kaczynski, suspected notorious proceeding
cautiously cabin fear booby-trapped, discovered bomb Friday remote homestead
Lincoln, Montana not known device intended specific target latest disclosure
Saturday tour 1.4-acre property, providing closeup look primitive conditions
plotted 17-year reign terror earlier announced found partially completed
bomb, chemicals components described virtual bomb-making workshop convinced
53, University California Berkeley responsible string 16 attacks killed
three people injured 23 unable say longer continue searching cabin painstaking
process Wednesday Kaczynski taken custody Kaczynski only charged one count
illegally possessing destructive device, tactic designed keep jail attacks
continued scouring Kaczynski's 10 -12-foot cabin, pool taken tour property
end muddy dirt road area cordoned yellow crime scene tape cabin, cardboard
boxes stood plywood tables, apparently used sorting Kaczynski's belongings
two small gardens grew most food. Kaczynski, lived hermit existence early
1970s, remained held bail waived right preliminary hearing bomb-possession
proceed. Evidence introduced shows long list bomb-making materials notebooks
filled bomb sketches writings cabin lived without running water electricity
need physical evidence shown link specific attacks link two most recent
fatal mail bombings 1994 1995, federal death-penalty law effect bombings
killed New York City advertising executive North Caldwell, New Jersey
1994 president California Forestry Association Sacramento focusing travel
records effort link bombs mailed northern California, Chicago elsewhere
reviewing guest records interviewing managers low-income hotels Berkeley
two attacks trying match manual typewriters found cabin letters 35,000-word
manifesto spending days jail reading ancient medieval history books cell
little more than half size cabin arrested last week.
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