THE 1986 CYANIDE AND TYLENOL DEATHS

In the three years after the 1982 Tylenol Murders, there were numerous tampering incidents and injuries. All of these were thought to be copycats, hoaxes or isolated acts. None were thought to be the work of the Tylenol Killer.

There was an incident in May of 1984 that proved to be lethal. In Manitowoc, Wisconsin a tax auditor named Thomas Dresser died after drinking a Coca – Cola bottle that had Cyanide in it. At first considered a murder, suicide was later mentioned as a possibility, though the known facts are not in accord with a suicide and the case was never fully solved. An item found in Kaczynski’s cabin indicates that he might have been in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It is a box containing Potassium based chemicals, chemicals which can be a precursor to making Potassium Cyanide. The label on the box indicates it came from a lab in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Since it is highly doubtful Kaczynski ordered it through a traceable means like mail delivery, he probably bought, stole, garbage picked or otherwise obtained it directly from the premises of that lab. The FBI inventory lists the item as "MB 171 two small white cardboard boxes labeled "Potassium chromate K. CrO, for lab use only. Hagenow Labs, Inc., Manitowoc, Wis.," in a white plastic shopping bag." This item is poisonous.

Kaczynski also had chemicals with labels indicating they came from labs in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas – each place within a one hour drive of a 1986 Cyanide death. The chemical with the San Antonio label was also a Potassium based chemical.

There were many other tampering scares, copycats and hoaxes, but no more lethal ones and none were grouped together in time, travel path or region. That changed in 1986.

In 1986 from February to September, five people died of Cyanide poisoning and one other man was sickened. Of the six incidents, four involved Tylenol, one involved Anacin 3 and one involved Lipton Cup A Soup. Yet the FDA generally tended to downplay reports the incidents were linked, and local authorities eventually gave questionable cause of death rulings in many of the cases. Hotel records show that Kaczynski was on the move and headed out of state when these incidents happened. He almost never left the state unless it was to commit a crime, and yet there were no bombings during the entire year of 1986. In chronological order, the incidents were as followed:

* On February 4 1986 in Tyler, Texas – Bill Case, a 41 year old medical lab technician, took Tylenol, went into convulsions and was hospitalized. The Tylenol was tainted with an unknown substance, the incident was basically forgotten and no more information is publicly available.

* On February 8 1986 in Bronxville (Yonkers), New York – Diane Elsroth, 23, a legal secretary and daughter of a NY State Policeman, dies of Cyanide in Tylenol. Death is ruled to be a clear homicide, but is never solved. Nationwide press coverage sparks fears of a new series of Tylenol Murders. The killer was apparently able to defeat the new three layers of tamper resistant packaging. Poisoned bottles were purchased at the A & P grocery store on CEDAR Street in Bronxville, and another poisoned bottle was found at the nearby Woolworth store on PONDFIELD Road in Bronxville. A CEDAR is a type of TREE and a commonly used WOOD, a POND is a small body of WATER and a FIELD can be of GRASS, PLANTS or TREES. Just like Kaczynski throughout his career as the Unabomber, and just like the Tylenol Killer of 1982, in 1986 locations are selected that reference themes of Nature, here in particular Wood, Trees, Water and Fields. In fact, three of the 1982 Chicago area sites had the word "Field" in their street or city names, and others refer to Trees, Wood or Water.

* On February 23-25 1986 in Nashville, Tennessee – Timothy Green, 32, dies of Cyanide in Tylenol. An intact Tylenol capsule filled with Cyanide is found in a bottle under the bed. Homicide is strongly suspected. There is no suicide note, history of suicidal statements or depression. But the case is eventually ruled a probable suicide, partially calming fears of another nationwide Cyanide Tylenol murder spree. Mr. Green was an evangelist and part time jewelry salesman. It is stated he had purchased Cyanide shortly before his death, and this is the sole evidence of suicide offered. But Cyanide is commonly used to clean jewelry and silver, which is what Mr. Green stated to the salesman was his intended use of the purchase.

* On April 29 1986 in Pullman, Washington – Sandie Gregory, 21, a technician in the animal lab at Washington State University, dies of Cyanide in Tylenol. There is no suicide note or history of suicidal statements. Murder is suspected. Yet eventually local police say she was "depressed" and probably killed herself, stating she had access to Cyanide at the lab were she worked. It is also stated that empty capsule shells with traces of Cyanide are found in her apartment. This could be consistent with suicide, though no reason is given why she would go through the trouble of putting the Cyanide in Tylenol before taking it. The empty shells could also be consistent with the lab tech investigating other capsules after becoming ill, or a killer creating and placing the tainted capsules in her apartment and targeting her specifically for death.

* On May 22 1986 (the day Kaczynski turned 44) in Austin, Texas – Kenneth Faries, 24, a University of Texas chemistry student and lab worker, dies of Cyanide in an Anacin 3 capsule. A Cyanide filled capsule is found still in the bottle. The capsules were purchased at a WalGREENS, a store that was also targeted in the 1982 Tylenol Murders, though the exact location is not publicly disclosed. (The only Walgreens in Austin now is on East RIVERside Street). The first ruling by the ME is that Mr. Faries was murdered. On June 1, 1986 the Travis County Medical Examiner Dr. Bayardo stated "There is nothing, nothing at all that indicates to me that this is a suicide." Investigation revealed that the Cyanide did not match any that Mr. Faries could have had access to on campus, and there was no suicide note, history of depression or suicidal statements. But on June 18, 1986, it was stated that the Cyanide was similar to some found somewhere on campus, and Dr. Bayardo declared the case a probable suicide. No reason is given as to how or why Mr. Faries placed Cyanide in an Anacin 3 capsule he then left in the bottle. For the third time in a row in 1986, what is at first thought to be an apparent Cyanide tampering murder is questionably declared a suicide, and a natiowide scare is largely averted.

* On June 6 1986 in Auburn, Washington – Bruce Nickell, 52, State of Washington employee and heavy equipment operator, dies after taking a Cyanide laced Excedrin capsule.

* On June 11 1986 in Auburn, Washington – Sue Snow Webking, 40, bank executive, dies after taking a Cyanide laced Excedrin capsule. Stella Nickell, the wife of Bruce, is convicted of the tampering deaths of her husband and Ms. Snow Webking. The motive is said to be insurance money, with the death of the woman designed to make it look like part of a random attack. The evidence used to convict Mrs. Nickell, while all circumstantial, seems fairly strong, and these two probable copycat murders are NOT considered part of the series this article examines. But Mrs. Nickell, currently serving a long prison sentence, still maintains her innocence, several key prosecution witnesses have recanted their testimony and some of the evidence used against her has since been challenged.

* On September 1 1986 in Runnemede, New Jersey – Louis Denber, a 27 year old electronics technician for the RCA corporation, sits down with his wife and mother to eat. His wife pours hot water into his Lipton Cup A Soup bowl. He takes a swallow, and states "This doesn’t taste right. This really doesn’t taste right." He gets up from the table, throws out the soup and says "I don’t feel well". He falls on the floor and goes in to convulsions. He is declared dead of Cyanide poisoning a few hours later at the hospital. His death is ruled a homicide, and is never solved. The soup was apparently purchased from a store on Clements BRIDGE Road. Like WELLS Road (Chicago 1982), Oroville DAM Road (Oroville 1982) and PONDfield (Bronxville 1986), a BRIDGE is associated with WATER.

Austin, Tyler, Nashville, Runnemede and Bronxville are all roughly aligned on the interstate highway system, going in a Northeastern direction from Austin to Bronxville. This is consistent with one person travelling by bus or car and doing all or most of these crimes. And Tyler, Nashville and Bronxville are actually perfectly aligned on the map – you can draw a straight line and go through all three. The I-90 Highway route from Pullman, Washington to Austin, Texas goes right through the Deer Lodge – Helena Montana area, just one hour from the Kaczynski cabin in Lincoln, and it was at a Helena hotel Kaczynski would usually stay on his way to, or coming back from, his criminal acts. And records show Kaczynski did stay at the hotel in Helena during April and May of 1986, consistent with him being on the move out of state to commit these poisoning and tampering crimes. And in the Elsroth case, the CEDAR Street and PONDFIELD Road locations of stores with tainted bottles clearly matches the criminal signature of both Ted Kaczynski and the 1982 Tylenol Killer.

Of the six victims, four were technicians, three worked in a laboratory, and two worked for universities – all groups targeted for death by Kaczynski. If you put the names of every American in a hat, and drew out six names, how many technicians would you expect to get? How many lab workers? University lab workers? What would the odds be that all six names would fall from "C" to "G" in the alphabet? We don’t know the answers to these question, but they are interesting enough to cause one to wonder if the some of the tamperings were done by placing bottles on store shelves (as clearly happened in the Elsroth case), but if other persons were targeted by tamperings done in their homes.

True crime researcher and writer Doug Oswell discovered one very interesting piece of evidence collected from Kaczynski’s cabin that might pertain to these 1986 deaths. Found in Kaczynski’s cabin (and included in the prosecutorial documents in U.S. v. Kaczynski) was a single loose-leaf notebook page containing the redacted names of persons living in the Austin and Houston areas, along with a map pinpointing the addresses associated with the Houston names. Yet Kaczynski never did any bombings in Texas. It would be interesting to see if any of those names are Case or Faries, or the names of other businessmen, scientists, lab workers, University employess or students who might have died young of a "heart attack", "stroke" or "suicide", all common misdiagnoses for Cyanide deaths.

But the debatable verdicts of probable suicides in several of these 1986 cases largely defuse another nationwide panic. Johnson & Johnson acted responsibly and ended capsule production, shifting to tamper proof hard caplets. James Lewis can be ruled out as a suspect in the 1986 crimes because he was in federal prison in 1986. Yet there are strong reasons to think the 1982 and 1986 murders were done by the same person. And once again, significant signature, direct, circumstantial and geographic evidence points to Theodore Kaczynski as a viable suspect.

ANOTHER MURDER

One other item. We know that Kaczynski sent a bomb to Thomas Mosser, an executive at the public relations firm Burson-Marstellar, which killed Mr. Mosser on December 10, 1994. "MOSS", of course, grows on TREES, which may in part be why this man was selected. But why that firm? Kaczynski later briefly mentioned the work of that firm on the Exxon Valdez incident, though it was said that they did not play a significant role in the PR for that incident. But look what major corporate crisis they did work on – from wikipedia:

"Burson-Marsteller’s strong position in crisis management has resulted in its identification with many major corporate crises of the past half century. It is well known for assisting Johnson & Johnson in the two Tylenol crises in 1982 and 1986."

Thus it appears that Kaczynski later targeted and murdered a man who worked for the firm that handled public relations for Johnson & Johnson during both Tylenol tragedies.

A SPECIFIC MOTIVE – THE USE OF CYANIDE AS POETIC JUSTICE?

We have already seen that Kaczynski had strong general motives of a rage against people, a desire to damage the modern technological system and a hatred for corporations, drug companies in particular. But he usually used bombs. So why would he have decided to use Cyanide in 1982? Could there have been a specific motive, arising out of a grudge? A way to enact, in his twisted mind, "poetic justice" against the system he despised?

Cyanide is used in gold and silver mining, something that Kaczynski himself, as well as some of his neighbors, engaged in on a low level individual basis. There are also many major industrial mining operations in Montana that use mass quantities of Cyanide in the mining process.

THERE WERE SEVERAL MAJOR SPILLS AND LEAKAGES OF CYANIDE IN MONTANA IN EARLY 1982, INCLUDING ONE IN JUNE OF 1982. These actions would be deplored by most citizens of Montana, but they would have ENRAGED Kaczynski, who would regard it as a personal assault on him, the area he loved and even the water he personally drank. He might very well have been inspired to turn Cyanide, the agent of death to his beloved nature, against the very system he hated. Most of the major spills and leakages were by the Pegasus Gold Company. We know that Kaczynski was enraged by these Cyanide spills and leakages because among the items found in his cabin was a death list with the names of the executives of the Pegasus Gold Company listed on it. This is a partial record of problems by the Pegasus Company at the troubled Zortman/Landusky Mine in Montana:
1982
Zortman/Landusky Ruptured pipe caused 1,200 gallons of cyanide to be spilled.
Zortman/Landusky 50,000 gallons of cyanide solution spilled into Alder Gulch contaminating Zortman’s community water supply. Pegasus was required to replace the drinking water source. The State issued a $15,000 fine against the company.
Zortman/Landusky 75 gallons of cyanide solution spilled.
Zortman/Landusky 300 gallons of cyanide solution was spilled when the top of a leach pad froze and cyanide flowed over the top onto the ground.
Zortman/Landusky 4 pounds of cyanide spilled, contaminating groundwater.
Zortman/Landusky 780 gallon leak in the gold recovery system. Soil contamination resulted.
Zortman/Landusky Bighorn sheep found dead at cyanide ponds.

Media reports indicate that these Cyanide spills and leaks killed TREES and ANIMALS like SHEEP, COWS and ELK, and affected FIELDS and groundWATER. There was specific concern about the Cyanide getting into WELL WATER. CROPS and LIVESTOCK were affected. A local Indian tribe complained that a sacred site, Spirit MOUNTAIN, was damaged. The damage also affected an area known as the Little Rocky MOUNTAINS.

The Cyanide tampering sites in 1982 included WOODFIELD, the GROVE Mall in ELK Grove Village, WELLS Street, WinFIELD, BUTTERFIELD in WHEATon, VAIL Ave., Arlington HEIGHTS, possibly ELMhurst, etc. WELLS draw WATER from the ground, BUTTER comes from COWS (LIVESTOCK), WHEAT is a CROP, VAIL is a town in Colorado associated with the Rocky MOUNTAINS, HEIGHTS are the high points of MOUNTAINS, a GROVE is a group of TREES, ELK are a common Montana animal species. The other matches are self explanatory. Several of the selected stores were JEWEL stores – and the primary use (85%) of mined gold is for JEWELRY, and it is mass quantities of CYANIDE that was spilled or leaked to cause the damage, and it was CYANIDE used as a weapon by the Tylenol Killer.

It appears possible that the Tylenol Killer, by virtue of the poison used and the sites selected, was conveying not just a general idea of the primacy of nature over the industrial consumer system, but a specific message about the massive recent Cyanide damage done to nature in Montana. Looking at the fact that it is Lombard, IL that is the only site on both the vertical and horizontal lines of tampering sites, this would create a potential geographic profile of the Tylenol Killer being a person who was a resident of Montana, an anti-corporate nature lover outraged by the recent Cyanide spills, who traveled through the Sheridan, WY area, had lived in or had ties to Lombard, IL, and was a ruthless killer. The profiles mentioned over the years also generally mention a loner, intelligent, some technical skill, filled with hatred for the world and a desire for revenge. Not only does Theodore Kaczynski fit all the specific geographic, skill and psychological elements of these profiles perfectly and exactly, it is very difficult to imagine that there is a single person anywhere else who would.

There were more problems from 1983 to 1986:

1983
Z/L Mine A leak in the pond liner was discovered after cyanide contamination was identified in the nearest monitoring well.

1985
Z/L MineStorm event caused mining company to land apply process water on 17 acres of land. Tree kills resulted.

Golden Sunlight Mine 19 million gallons of cyanide solution leaked when a tailings impoundment failed. Resulting groundwater contamination affected the Jefferson River alluvium. Four domestic wells and a well at the veterinary clinic were contaminated. Placer Dome was sued by neighboring landowners. The company eventually bought out the landowners.

1986
Z/L Mine A storm caused Pegasus to spray 20 million gallons of process water on a hillside, resulting in tree kills. This event involved a nearly catastrophic failure of the pond system. Golden Sunlight Mine A pipe fitting split and discharged approximately 2,000 gallons of cyanide solution.

So we have damage to a HILL side FIELD, TREE kills and twice damage to a POND system. In 1986 the Bronxville (Yonkers) Cyanide Tylenol tampering sites were at CEDAR Street and PONDFIELD Road.

A ZODIAC KILLER CONNECTION?

There is at least one other major unsolved criminal case where Theodore Kaczynski has been frequently mentioned and officially investigated as a suspect, and that is the case of the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer killed at least 5 persons in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1968 to 1969, matching the exact time period that Kaczynski lived in the area, mostly as a Professor at the University of California Berkeley. The Zodiac Killer took credit for 37 murders, and was suspected by police and/or journalists of possibly up to 49 murders from 1966 until 1974. Kacsynski apparently visited and interviewed at U CAL Berkeley (and possibly other schools) in the Fall/Winter of 1966, when the first probable Zodiac murder of Riverside College student Cheri Jo Bates took place. So it seems the Zodiac murders happened when Kaczynski visited or lived in the SF Bay area, and stopped when he left.

Both Kaczynski and Zodiac were highly interested in and expert at codes and bombs, both wrote letters to the paper demanding they be published on the front page on penalty of death for innocent citizens if they were not, both threatened to bomb mass transit, both made references to opera and literature, both drew symbols of crossed lines inside a circle at crime scenes, both referenced Norse symbols and language, etc. Kaczynski looks very much like the Zodiac sketch, and the similarities in handwriting and word usage are uncanny.

Interestingly, the Zodiac Killer said in one of his later letter letters that his future killing would be disguised as "routine robberies, killings of anger, + a few fake accidents, etc,", which fits the Tylenol Murders. At first, many of the 1982 and 1986 Tylenol and Cyanide deaths were thought to be of natural causes, accidental overdoses, suicides or killings by family members. Zodiac was also suspected of killing a woman in Sonoma County, California named Caroline Davis by Strychnine poison, and in perhaps the first ever case of product tampering, the Fall 1969 sickening of a Martinez, California man named Daniel Williams of BUSH Street who drank Arsenic put into a Seven Up soda pop bottle. In 1984 Thomas Dresser of Manitowoc, Wisconsin would die after drinking from a Coca – Cola bottle with Cyanide placed in it. An item found in Kaczynski’s cabin indicated he may have visited Manitowoc, Wisconsin, as discussed above in the section on the 1986 deaths.

In the Fall of 1972, someone sent food products filled with Cyanide to persons in the Sacramento area, with a message that if the "killer" responsible for the Vietnam War was re-elected, these Cyanide filled products would be put on store shelves. At this time period, Kaczynski was known to spend most of the cold weather months outside Montana, often in California, and was particularly known to frequent the Northern California area in general and the Sacramento area in particular. So in 1972, just as in 1969, 1982 and 1986, areas were it is proven or suspected Kaczynski was at experienced Cyanide tampering incidents.

CONCLUSION

The Tylenol Murders are the most brutal and baffling unsolved crime in Chicago history, and one of the most puzzling and frustrating unsolved murder sprees in American history. They have resisted all efforts at a solution. And despite the recent flurry of renewed interest in James Lewis, there has never been any evidence to link him to the actual murders, and a lot of evidence to suggest that he did not and could not have done the murders. And we have the enigma of the 1986 Cyanide and Tylenol Deaths, which Lewis could not have done, as he was incarcerated in federal prison at the time.

There is a great deal of signature, direct, circumstantial, geographic, operational, psychological and even some physical evidence that suggests that Theodore Kaczynski may have been the Tylenol Killer. Depending on the available physical evidence in the case, including hotel records, travel records, photographs, handwriting and typewriting on product tampering threat letters, finger prints on tampered bottles, DNA and new forensic evidence, if the police and/or FBI follow up on the evidence and leads generated in this story, it may yet be possible to bring justice, or at the very least some sense of closure, to the victims and families affected by this case.

I do not know if his fingerprints or other evidence have been entered into any national computer databases. I do know his DNA has not, indeed it has never been taken. There is a mountain of potential evidence – all the items recovered from his cabin – but ALL of that will soon be lost. Within months, it is set to be auctioned off to the public.

Copyright 2011, 2013 By AK Wilks

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A new picture showing the Tylenol Murders suspect, "The Bearded Man", clearing watching Paula Prince buy the tainted Tylenol that would kill her. Compare to pic of Ted Kaczynski.

Close up on "The Bearded Man" who is a Tylenol Murders suspect 1982 and TK 1981.

There was a very grainy photo printed in Chicago and New York newspapers of a bearded man who was apparently watching flight attendant Paula Prince purchase tainted Tylenol in 1982. This bearded man may have no connection to the case, or he may have been the Tylenol Killer watching to see the person who purchased his poisoned capsules. The man was wanted for questioning as suspect in the Tylenol Murders. FBI serial killer profiler John Douglas, who worked on the case, states in his book The Anatomy of Motive the FBI did suspect that the man in the picture was the UNSUB (Unknown Subject) likely responsible for the Tylenol Murders.

The man in the photo was first compared to the bearded James Lewis, and they do share some characteristics, but they did not appear to be the same person. The bearded man in the photo does have some very strong and interesting similarities with the bearded Theodore Kaczynski. (Unfortunately, Lewis and Kaczynski do look somewhat like each other).

We must remember that Kaczynski used disguises when he purchased bomb parts. In one instance he records in his journal he wore several shirts to make himself look heavier, stuffed the shirt for the same reason, put cotton balls in his cheeks, wax in his nostrils to make them larger, gum under his lips and cut and dyed his hair and beard. The man looks very much like a moderately disguised Kaczynski, if Kaczynski also cut his hair back to give the appearance of a more receding hairline. Perhaps a better version of the photo can be obtained, or other photos examined to see if Kaczynski is in any of them.

A photo of the man and photographs of Kaczynski are attached. The only major difference is the man in the photo has a more receding hairline, which Kaczynski could easily have implemented as a disguise action, in effect making himself look older. There are many strong similarities between the two: Bearded white men of the same approximate age, height, weight, same basic facial structure, eyes, nose, flat hair on the sides, bigger hair on top, beard, even the gray spot at the bottom of the beard matches. See the photo below.

Close up on man who is a Tylenol Murders suspect 1982 and TK 1981.

Another look at the Tylenol suspect watching Paula Prince buy the tainted Tylenol which would kill her and Ted Kaczynski.

The FBI is finally acting on information and evidence I gave them. Based on research by Doug Oswell, myself and others at http://www.unazod.com and at http://www.zodiackillersite.forummotion.com . Hopefully they will get the court order to compel a DNA draw. Ted has refused to give DNA and says in his filing that he may match the DNA but still be innocent. He does not want his coded notes released which decribe crimes he did. Gee, I wonder why? Hopefully we will soon be able to inlcude or exclude TK from Tylenol and Zodiac.

FBI Wants Unabomber’s DNA for Tylenol Probe
By Ann Woolner – May 19, 2011 11:57 AM ET

The FBI is seeking DNA from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, who’s serving a life sentence for killing three people with homemade bombs, in connection with the 1982 Tylenol poisonings

Seven people in the Chicago area died, and thousands of bottles of the over-the-counter painkiller were withdrawn. The case was never solved.

Kaczynski made the disclosure in court papers in an effort to stop an auction of his belongings now in progress. It was confirmed today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“As part of our re-examination of the evidence developed in connection with the 1982 Tylenol poisonings, we have attempted to secure DNA samples from numerous individuals, including Ted Kaczynski,” the agency said today in a statement. “To date, Mr. Kaczynski has declined to voluntarily provide this sample.”

Kaczynski said in a handwritten court document that prison personnel told him the Chicago office of the FBI “wanted a sample of my DNA to compare with the partial DNA profiles connected with a 1982 event in which someone put potassium cyanide in Tylenol.”

“I have never even possessed any potassium cyanide,” wrote Kaczynski, 68, a former mathematics professor.

Kaczynski, who grew up in the Chicago area, said he refused to surrender a sample unless “the FBI would satisfy a certain condition that is not relevant here.”

DNA Request
Kacyzinski wrote that two prison officers approached him on April 27 and told him the FBI would seek a court order unless he voluntarily gave a DNA sample.

He cited the visit in his attempt to prevent the auctioning of his belongings, asking federal courts in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, to keep until his death some of the things seized from his Montana cabin when they arrested him in 1996.

He wants the government to keep all his journals, which “may provide evidence as to my whereabouts and activities in 1982,” for example.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Shelledy, who represented the government in the auction case, said in an e-mail, “We will not comment further on the investigation” Kaczynski mentioned.

In court papers responding to Kaczynski’s motion, Shelledy wrote, “Kaczynski has not been indicted” in the Tylenol case, and “no such federal prosecution is currently planned.”

Possible Evidence

Kaczynski wrote that some of the items the government is auctioning could “turn out to be important” in resolving whether he had anything to do with the poisonings.

He also asked that everything he wrote in code be withheld from the sale, because that’s how he wrote when describing his illegal acts.

Neither court ruled on the auction, which started yesterday and will end June 2.

Kaczynski attended high school in Evergreen Park in suburban Chicago. He graduated from Harvard College, then got master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan.

Tracked and caught by the FBI, he pleaded guilty in 1998 in Sacramento, California, to 13 charges. They included allegations growing from four Sacramento-area explosions that left two men dead and accusations related to a third death, in New Jersey, the Associated Press reported at the time.

Case Still Open
The Tylenol case was being examined by grand juries in two Illinois counties in January 2010, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing people familiar with the investigation. DNA was taken from one suspect after a court order, the Tribune said.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), maker of the drug, was viewed as a “hero” for withdrawing 31 million bottles of Tylenol and offering replacements in tablet form, which was safer, according to the New York Times.

Bill Price, a J&J spokesman, declined to comment in an e- mail today.

Doug Oswell said:

AK, in my opinion, Kaczynski’s response was very "weasly" in terms of what he said and how he said it. It’s a stark contrast with his response to being accused of the Unabomber crimes, in which he simply shut up and refused to talk about them.

Kaczynski claims that there "may be" elements within his writings that will alibi him, but I can’t help but believe that if that were the case, the FBI wouldn’t be bothering with him.

Incidentally, I was very disappointed with the article in the Daily Herald. Very small beer compared to what I was led to expect.

AK:

Doug I agree. Ted seems to go out of his way to say that his DNA may match this Tylenol DNA, but not to worry about that, he is still innocent. And does he really think that if he has a diary that says "September 27, 1982 – Gee I went for a walk in the Montana woods today", that will be enough to clear him? I may have to find that research that you, Drew, Ricardo, myself and others did about the possible coded messages in his diary, and how his account of what happened to him at the time of the Jay Mitchell poisoning doesn’t match weather records for Montana. Ted indicates in his diary he was camping in Montana, but what he describes is not consistent with weather reports found by Drew for that day.

The Daily Herald article is a good start anyway. At least she interviewed us and printed our names and comments, and points out we were the first to research this and contact the FBI. My main research article is 55,000 words, it is a lot to go through. I have sent the reporter some new information as well. Hopefully this is just a start and she will follow up with a more detailed article as she reads more of our work, that is the impression I got from talking to her.

The Chicago Daily Herald is a smaller paper that covers the Chicago suburbs. I may send a press release to the Chicago Tribune and Sacramento Bee.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/2011 … 705199967/

By Jamie Sotonoff and Deborah Donovan

FBI wants to test Unabomber DNA in Tylenol killings

Could the Unabomber and the Tylenol killer — who both left victims across the suburbs — be the same person?

The Federal Bureau of Investigations wants DNA from Evergreen Park native Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber imprisoned for life for killing three people. The agency won’t say why, but Kaczynski, in a court filing, said the FBI wants to determine if he was responsible for the 1982 Tylenol poisonings. He denies any involvement in the Tylenol case. Seven people died in three days when cyanide-filled capsules were put into Extra Strength Tylenol bottles on retail store shelves in Cook and DuPage counties. The deaths triggered a massive product recall, widespread consumer panic and new standards for tamper-proof product packaging.

Killed were Mary Kellerman, 12, of Elk Grove Village; Adam Janus of Arlington Heights; Stanley Janus of Lisle, the brother of Adam; Theresa Janus of Lisle, Stanley’s wife; Mary McFarland of Elmhurst; Paula Prince of Chicago and Mary Reiner of Winfield.

Chicago FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates confirmed Thursday that the agency asked for Kaczynski’s DNA, saying he is among “numerous individuals” from whom the FBI wants samples. She would not provide details about any of the others.

Kaczynski’s initial bomb targets were in the Chicago area, with two bombs exploding at Northwestern University in Evanston in 1978 and 1979; one placed on a United Airlines jet leaving O’Hare International Airport in 1979, forcing an emergency landing; and another exploding at the Lake Forest home of United Airlines’ president in 1980.

Kaczynski disclosed the DNA request in court papers in an effort to stop an auction of his belongings, now in progress. The 68-year-old former mathematics professor also wrote in his motion: “I have never even possessed any potassium cyanide.”

Kaczynski’s attorney, John Balasz, said he’s “completely convinced” Kaczynski had no involvement in the Tylenol case and thinks the FBI wants his DNA only so they can definitively rule him out as a suspect.

Kaczynski has refused to voluntarily give the sample, and in the motion filed over his belongings, said he’d be willing to go to court over it.

The FBI collected DNA samples from Kaczynski after his arrest, but that material “might have degraded to the point that it is not usable,” said Ross Rice with the FBI in Chicago. “It’s always best to have a current sample.”

Kaczynski wants to keep certain items taken from his cabin in 1996, including journals he says could prove his whereabouts in 1982 and other evidence that could clear him in the Tylenol case.

Kaczynski grew up in Evergreen Park before enrolling at Harvard University at age 16. After graduating he lived in Michigan and California, then returned to suburban Chicago in 1972 and used his family’s Lombard address to acquire an Illinois driver’s license. He surrendered that license for one in Montana in 1973, but renewed his Illinois license in 1978.

In 1996, Kaczynski was arrested at a remote Montana cabin and charged with sending 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others.

“I don’t know how strong of a suspect he is, but based on his past, I can see why the FBI is doing this as a process of elimination,” said Arlington Heights Police Cmdr. Kenneth Galinski, whose department has an officer assigned to work with the FBI on the Tylenol case.

Despite national hysteria, intense media attention and what was initially a 140-member police task force, the Tylenol killer was never found and investigators said the trail was cold.

Thursday’s news marks the first time in decades the FBI has put the spotlight on someone other than James Lewis, the Boston man widely believed to be the killer.

Lewis spent 12 years in jail for extortion after he sent Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, a letter demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.” He has denied any responsibility in the cyanide poisonings.

“I would certainly think he is still a person of interest,” Galinski said. “I don’t know if the FBI has learned everything they want to know about him.”

Dozens of different theories about suspects have circulated over the years, pointing to everyone from Johnson & Johnson’s competitors to Roger Arnold (now deceased), a convicted killer who worked at Jewel’s distribution facility in Melrose Park.

True crime author Douglas Oswell and researcher A.K. Wilks are among those who always suspected the Unabomber was connected to the case. They shared their research with the FBI and published it online.

“If I were on a jury right now, I couldn’t convict him. But if I was a cop right now, I’d have to be brain-dead not to be interested in him,” said Oswell, who lives in Delaware and describes himself as “an ordinary Joe” fascinated by criminal psychology.

Helen Jensen of Arlington Heights doesn’t know who committed the Tylenol murders. But the former nurse, who accompanied investigators to the Kellerman home on the day the girl died, said she hopes this latest news isn’t a dead end like so many before. She still occasionally talks to the victim’s grandmother and said her “whole family was destroyed by it.”

“It sure would be nice to finally get some end to the whole thing, for the people that are survivors,” Jensen said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/2011 … z1Mvjgrgk0

I just found out that despite official denials that the 1982 Chicago cases had any link to the 1986 Tylenol cyanide death of Yonkers, NY resident Diane Elsroth, in 2010 the FBI examined tainted capsules that were placed at two stores there in 1986 (on CEDAR St. and PONDFIELD Road) for possible DNA. I do not know if any DNA was found. But they did find traces of SILVER in the cyanide, which could mean several things, but is most consistent with the cyanide having been used in the silver mining process, or stolen from a working or closed silver mining site.

James Lewis was in prison in 1986. I doubt they would even be looking at the 1986 cases were it not for the fact that Lewis gave DNA in January 2010, and it was apparently a NON MATCH to Tylenol DNA.

Doug Oswell first mentioned that MONTANA has many active and closed gold and silver mine sites. Also, many individuals engage in gold and silver mining on their own, sometimes using cyanide. One such person was Ted Kaczynski’s neighbor and sometime friend Chris Waits. There is also evidence that Ted Kaczynski himself both visited and stole from closed mines and did some silver and/or gold prospecting himself.

Ted says in his legal motion he never "possessed" potassium cyanide. To "possess" something commonly means to "own" it. Ted may be telling a literal truth but being very deceptive.

But his neighbor Chris Waits did silver and gold prospecting, and may have used CYANIDE to do this. Chris had a garage and outdoor area where he stored tools, supplies and junk, and he let Ted have free access to this area. This area could have had cyanide in it.

On pages 46 – 47 of the book Unabomber: The Secret Life Of Ted Kaczynski by Chris Waits and Dave Shors, Waits relates how he told Ted about several old deserted mine shafts, and how there was equipment, supplies and a few gold flakes left there. Waits told Ted where they were and states:

"small ceramic crucibles used in the fire-assay of ore could still be found lying around the front of the building. We talked at length about these and some metal objects I had seen near the sites.

The next time I hiked into the old mines, several months later, everything was gone: no sulphur, no metal objects I had described."

Waits thinks it likely Ted did go there, and notes the following items seized from Ted’s cabin:

FBI Inventory
# L59 – Container of yellow crystals with plastic bags
# L60 – Container of white powder
# L61 – Six sealed bottles labeled sulphur
# MB26 – One small white ceramic crucible
# MB27 – Two off white colored ceramic crucible lids

Cyanide, of course, is a white powder.

Chris Waits states that he told Ted Kaczynski that he did placer mining and gold washing by hand, and that all that was needed to start was a frying pan without a handle. He explained that a teaspoonful of gold could fetch $300. He says Ted "definitely showed interest." See Unabomber: The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski by Chris Waits and Dave Shors, pages 52 to 54.

Cyanide is used in many of the different mining methods. It can also be used to clean and polish jewelry, silver and gold. Waits thinks it likely Ted did do some prospecting, and notes the following items seized from his cabin as proof:

FBI Inventory

# MB120N – One "Calumet Baking Powder" can with paper label secured with masking tape, with handwritten notations "Black sand presumably consist[ing] largely of FeO4 or Fe O5 [iron oxide]."

# MB137 – One small clear glass jar, with red-and-white checkered metal cap, containing two staples (for wood) and a small amount of gold, shiny granuals [sic] and flakes.

# MD49 – One metal frying pan without handle.

There was also a cyanide incident in May of 1984 that proved to be lethal. In Manitowoc, Wisconsin (which is just north of the Chicago area) a tax auditor named Thomas Dresser died after drinking a Coca – Cola bottle that had Cyanide in it, while at a picnic with his wife. At first considered a murder, suicide was later mentioned as a possibility, though the known facts are not in accord with a suicide and the case was never fully solved.

An item found in Kaczynski’s cabin indicates that he might have been in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It is a box containing Potassium based chemicals, chemicals which can be a precursor to making Potassium Cyanide. The label on the box indicates it came from a lab in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Since it is highly doubtful Kaczynski ordered it through a traceable means like mail delivery, he probably bought, stole, garbage picked or otherwise obtained it directly from the premises of that lab.

The FBI inventory lists the item as "MB 171 two small white cardboard boxes labeled "Potassium chromate K. CrO, for lab use only. Hagenow Labs, Inc., Manitowoc, Wis.," in a white plastic shopping bag." This item is poisonous.

Kaczynski also had chemicals with labels indicating they came from labs in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas – each place within a one hour drive of a 1986 Cyanide death. The chemical with the San Antonio label was also a Potassium based chemical.

PR exec Thomas Mosser who was murdered by Ted in 1994 did personally work on the 1982 Tylenol crisis.

Mosser did not have any computer, high tech or oil compant clients. Thus if he was selected it would seem likely IMO that it was his work for client Johnson & Johnson that caused him to be targeted.

Interesting NEW INFO.

There was a THIRD bottle of cyanide tainted Tylenol found in 1986! It was within 30 miles of the Bronxville/Yonkers area. It had a small amount of cyanide, not enough to kill, just to sicken – perhaps like what happened in Tyler, Texas.

Did this third bottle have a Nature/Tree/Wood connection?

You tell me – it was found at the A&P store in Shrub OAK, New York! Consider that with the other NY locations on CEDAR St. and PONDFIELD Road.

Also 9/14/82 victim Mark Husted’s father was the politically connected City Attorney for CARPENTERSVILLE. He had a prior arrest on marijuana charges and had his sentence reduced after letters to the judge from friends of his father, including then Illinois Senator Charles Percy. This got some coverage in local papers as Mark Husted was now facing a cocaine charge and there were cries of political favortism.

Scott Bartz mentions as Tylenol suspects the Chicago mob and white racist groups, and also mentions the unsolved murder of Valerie Percy, citing the shared aspect with the Tylenol murders of apparently targeting wealthy Chicago suburbs.

Now it seems a friend of the family of Charles Percy may have been killed by the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murderer.

Just found out the 1986 New York cyanide had elements of SILVER and IRON ORE in it.

I need to do more research, and welcome others doing research on this point, but while cyanide has many uses, I think cyanide mixed with silver and iron ore would indicate it probably was used in the MINING industry.

That points to states like Nevada and Montana with their open and closed mining sites as possible locations for theft or salvage of cyanide. Also points to suspects who were known to salvage items from mine sites and/or do some prospect mining themselves. Ted Kaczynski did both.

No word on other 1986 cases having cyanide with silver and iron ore in them.

Dreamnine great question – why did the 1986 killer want to just sicken and not kill some people?

My guess is that many cyanide deaths go unreported as they are misdiagnosed as suicide, drug overdose, heart attack, etc.

A sick person can report that they took Tylenol and got sick, thus the tie is made, and it gets publicity.

Other explanation is that it was accidental in the sense that the killer made a dosage mistake, ran out of cyanide and/or unintentionally contaminated other capsules with a trace amount.

Not sure if I exactly or at all mentioned this before or not, but I came across some interesting information.

David Kaczynski had planned to visit Ted in Montana in January 1986. Ted cancelled the visit and set it for February. Then Ted cancelled that visit and told David he would be out of state, in "warm weather states" looking for work (which is pure BS) and that he could not visit him until LATE SEPTEMBER.

We have a confirmed cyanide murder in February in New York, a string of possible cyanide murders/"suicides" for the next several months, and then a final confirmed cyanide murder in early September in New Jersey.

In other words, coincidence or not, the time period that Ted Kaczynski says he will be out of state – February 1986 to early September 1986 – matches the time period of cyanide murders and suspicous deaths across the country.

The funny thing is there are some within the FBI who seem to credit the TK as Tylenol Killer theory, and have responded to my evidence, and I have had good phone conversations with them, and they apparently asked Ted for his DNA. But it seems another group within the federal government is blocking progress, either because they think my idea is wrong (but if so why not get the DNA prove me wrong and move on) or because they think further examination of Ted and getting his DNA may affect some other case they don’t want affected.

Look at these comments from some in law enforcement, mentioning that the Tylenol Killer is likely to be a "terrorist" similar to those who use "pipe bombs". Hmm, do they know more than we do, or have they just been reading my posts at http://www.unazod.com and the stories in the Chicago Daily Herald and ABC News mentioning the evidence from me and Doug Oswell that points to Ted Kaczynski?

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magaz … o-a-Close/

Will the grand jury seek evidence on Ted Kaczynski? Or will they just continue their pointless witch hunt against James Lewis?

Could the Long Strange Story of the Tylenol Murders Be Drawing to a Close?

Posted September 25, 2012, at 1:10 p.m.

By Whet Moser

This month, Chicago has an oral history of the 1982 Tylenol killings—seven Chicagoans murdered, seemingly at random, with cyanide-laced tablets—timed to the 30th anniversary of the incident, which has gone unsolved. It turns out the timing is more precipitous; Natasha Korecki and Kim Janssen learned that a grand jury in the case is "possible":

The evidence investigators presented to prosecutors so far remains circumstantial, but it could be bolstered by statements from potential witnesses who have declined to sit for interviews, according to sources close to the investigation.

So far, however, no decision has been made on whether to give the grand jury a green light. Sources say both state’s attorneys from Cook and DuPage counties have been briefed on the evidence. The investigation, handled by an FBI-led task force of law-enforcement agents, still centers on the same man: James W. Lewis, sources tell the Sun-Times.

The circumstantial evidence and lack of any decision regarding the grand jury is in keeping with the murders’ long and mysterious history, a crime without physical evidence or any apparent motive. David Zivan, who authored Chicago’s oral history, captures the confusion three decades later from some of the principals:

Superintendent Brzeczek
My opinion is that this was an initial homicide where the bad guy knew the victim and that was it. And then to cover it up, the bad guy went and contaminated the other ones. That motive makes the most sense to me.

Firefighter Keyworth
I personally think that the person or persons involved in this—my gut feeling was that their purpose was to bring the United States to its knees: “Look at the power we have. We can shut down the entire economy. We can control the world.” And for a short period of time, they did. In today’s world, it would be domestic terrorism. We didn’t have that terminology back then. But it was actually the first case of domestic terrorism in the country.

Attorney General Fahner
I don’t mean to be melodramatic, but it was kind of the first act of terrorism, in that there was no intended victim, just random victims. Not unlike what happens in the world today when people throw pipe bombs. Up until that time, when you had mass murderers like Richard Speck, these were people who had selected victims and decided what they were going to do or not going to do. But this really was random. And that’s what terrorism is to me—to frighten or kill indiscriminately.

Neither explanation is terribly satisfying. Brzeczek’s theory is, well, elaborate—that the perpretrator covered up a targeted murder by concealing it with indiscriminate murder. Fahner’s theory is predicated on the randomness of it, but terrorism is rarely indiscriminate; terrorists usually have some goal or purpose in murder. No one’s ever come up with a plausible motive for either discriminate or indiscriminate killing.

Which brings the story to James W. Lewis. This smart and troubled man incriminated himself into the Tylenol investigation by attempting to extort one million dollars from Johnson & Johnson… but not for himself. Lewis directed the company to wire the ransom to the closed account of a business owner who’d once bounced checks to Lewis and his wife, and allegedly shortchanged them while paying off his personal bills. The defense claimed Lewis just wanted to sic the feds on the target of his ire, and Lewis was duly convicted on charges of attempted extortion. He’s been out for years now, living in the Boston area. In a lengthy chronicle of the case for the Reader, Joy Bergmann paints Lewis as a suspicious character… but not, aside from his extortion, necessarily suspicious as the Tylenol killer:

Lewis maintained he was a "political prisoner," a "scapegoat," and an "all-purpose monster…fathered by the wild-eyed hyperventilated imaginations of two brutal men, Tyrone Fahner and Daniel K. Webb," who simply "blew" the Tylenol investigation thanks to "bureaucratic blundering incompetence."

McGarr had already listened to Dan Webb reiterate Lewis’s biography: the violence toward his parents, the mental hospital commitment, the Raymond West murder charge, the Kansas City fraud schemes for which he was convicted in May of 1983 and sentenced to ten years, the fugitive flight, the extortion conviction, the breadboard schematic, the grandiose and quick-to-explode temperament, the innumerable aliases and deceptions.

Years later, Zivan finds skepticism towards Lewis as the killer:

Superintendent Brzeczek
It wasn’t James Lewis. James Lewis was an asshole, an opportunist. He tried to extort some money from Johnson & Johnson, and he went to jail. He was in the joint a long time. When someone is in the penitentiary, you can go and talk to him, with or without his lawyer present. In all those years, all the work on James Lewis to put it together: nothing.

Attorney General Fahner
Do I think James Lewis was involved? I did, and I do. And the head of the FBI office here at the time—I can’t speak for him, but I think he felt as I did. But we could never put him in the city, in the places, at the right time.

August Locallo
Lieutenant with the Chicago Police Department
I was the top man in violent crimes. [Lewis] had lived in Chicago, and that’s why they zeroed in on my unit. He was in custody in New York, and I was assigned to go to New York to interview him. Basically, the FBI had him in custody, and by the time we got to New York, he had his attorney and he wouldn’t talk to us. That was a futile effort. He’s a con man. Strictly a con man. And he’ll do anything to get to his goal. I really believed he might have killed somebody, but they couldn’t put anything on him.

Which is why it was a bit surprising when the FBI reopened the case, searching Lewis’s home in 2009. Since then the case has been ongoing again, and it’s hard to know how to read the latest news. If all the evidence presented to prosecutors remains circumstantial, has their case against Lewis gotten any better over the years?

For his part, Lewis has avoided the press… except for an interview given to a Boston cable access show a few years ago. Here’s a clip, no less weird than any other point in the story.

Oral History at http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magaz … l-History/

Luke68: Ted admitted himself that prior to his ‘Eureka’ moment (seeing the earth movers ripping up the land) and becoming a pipe bomber, he engaged in some ‘monkey wrenching’.
We know from this essay (written by Ted in 1971) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unnamed_Essay_(1971 ) that the technological and scientific threat to civil liberty was fully developed in his mind.

The question is, what is monkey wrenching in Ted’s mind in relation to scientific research and technological progress? Based on the fact he was trying to blow up planes, I would scarcely believe he was merely pulling off a few pranks here and there. It must have been something relatively serious. If not the Tylenol lacing then what else?

In the essay above, Ted makes specific reference to drugs and to genetics. His initial rally cry is against ‘scientific research’. Agree, this continued as a theme throughout, however the technological aspect took precedence later on.

So again, what monkey wrenching relative to what Ted was capable of and directed to the scientific and or research areas did he get up to before making and sending bombs? For me anyway, that’s a rhetorical question.

AK Wilks: I think you are right Luke. And it goes to the key point of MOTIVE.

In Ted’s beloved state of Montana, there had been several major spills of CYANIDE by a mining company, which poisoned ponds and water wells, killed plants and trees, and killed sheep and elk.

Keep that in mind for the method of using CYANIDE as a means of revenge to paralyse the national economy.

Now, why select Johnson & Johnson?

Thanks to PhillyTechNews and our member DREW for finding this very important item.

With Johnson & Johnson spending tens of millions of dollars to buy and expand BIOTECH and GENETIC ENGINEERING companies, and fund RESEARCH at such companies, he may well have thought it would fit his goals to essentially sink or cripple the Johnson & Johnson Company. Or at least, as he often put it, "get my revenge on the technological society."

This article apppears in May 1982, and in late July 1982 we have the Tylenol Cyanide death of Jay Mitchell in Sheridan, Wyoming, just across the Montana border from where Ted Kaczynski lived.

And in September 1982 the Tylenol Murders cause a $100 Million direct loss to J & J because of the massive recall and huge drop in sales. The Tylenol Murders also caused a $1 Billion plunge in J & J stock. No doubt this financial disaster severely set back any future plans J & J had for buy and expanding biotech and genetic engineering companies, or funding their research.

Don’t we have examples of Ted Kaczynski reading the NY Times to select targets? Yes, apparently the FBI thought it likely based on the timing of articles that Ted used the NY Times to target McConnell, Epstein and Gerlenter, probably Mosser, and perhaps others.

Didn’t Ted Kaczynski send a bomb to Dr. Charles Epstein, a GENETIC ENGINEER? Yes he did.

Didn’t Ted Kaczynski write in his Manifesto and elsewhere about what he felt were the extreme dangers associated with BIOTECH and GENETIC ENGINEERING?

Yes in his 1971 essay it was a dominant concern even back then.

See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Unnamed_Essay_(1971 )

"The power of society to control the individual person has recently been expanding very rapidly, and is expected to expand even more rapidly in the near future. Let us list a few of the more ominous developments as a reminder.

4. Direct physical control of the emotions via electrodes and "chemitrodes" inserted in the brain. (See Jose M.R. Delgado’s book "Physical Control of the Mind.")
5. Biofeedback training, after the manner of Joseph Kamiya and others.
6. Predicted "memory pills" or other drugs designed to improve memory or increase intelligence.
(The reader possibly assumes that items (5) and (6) present no danger to freedom because their use is supposed to be voluntary, but I will argue that point later. See page 1-15.)
7. Predicted genetic engineering, eugenics, related techniques.

Observe that once a society based on psychological, genetic, and other forms of human engineering has come into being, it will presumably last forever, because people will all be engineered to favor human engineering and the totally collective society, so that they will never become dissatisfied with this kind of society. Furthermore, once human engineering, the linking of human minds with computers, and other things of that nature have come into extensive use, people will probably be altered so much that it will no longer be possible for them to exist as independent beings, either physically or psychologically"

And in section "2" of the Unabomber Manifesto, right at the start, Ted says the industrial-technological system will permanently reduce "human beings and other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine." (Emphasis added). In his April 24, 1995 letter to the NY Times Ted stated "The people we are out to get are the scientists and engineers, especially in critical fields like computers and genetics." (emphasis added). And there are multiple references throughout his writing to the extreme dangers of the biotech and genetics fields.

DREAMNINE: I think that there is some wilful misdirection going on. The case is in the news again because it has been 30 years.

I can’t believe that the FBI hasn’t DNA’d Ted already, but either way they’re not about to admit it.

It would be incredibly damaging and embarassing for LE to admit that Ted might have had anything to do with these crimes and expedient of them to point the finger elsewhere.

AK Wilks: Yes that could be the sad reality.

Not sure what this means, but it seems the FBI will no longer be the leader of the Tylenol Murders Task Force. They will continue to "assist" but the investigation will now be led by local police. In a way this seems like bad news, as local police do not have the resources of the FBI. But it seems that most of the FBI was focused on James Lewis, to the exclusion of every other suspect. In fact they hatched an asinine scheme to have him write a novel about the case and then use that to entrap him. So maybe the FBI taking a back seat could be good. Someone in the FBI was apparently convinced by the research I did to ask for Ted Kaczynski’s DNA. Two different FBI agents called me on the phone after I submitted the evidence pointing to possible Unabomber involvement in the Tylenol Murders. But he/she/they seem to have been in the minority, and the follow up, if any, is unclear. But overall this seems like bad news, that they are more or less putting it on the back burner.

This article and others say that the FBI actually got DNA from Kaczynski in 2011, but they do not provide any quotes or factual cites to that effect. They asked him for DNA and he refused. It was then said they would seek a court order. No subsequent news articles actually confirmed that the DNA was obtained, and nothing showed up on public court dockets indicating an order to get DNA. So it is still not clear to me if they ever actually got his DNA.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/28/ch … -30-years/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca … 1625.story

AK, did you see this? http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/allan-macinnis/viff-2013-stemple-pass-unabomber-james-benning_b_4079999.html

Thanks. I had not seen that. The most interesting thing is that he says that someone bought Ted’s journals at auction. I had heard rumors that they would be the basis for a book release. I hope that is true.

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HOLMES201 made some excellent posts on the Pines card and I am transferring them to here.

HOLMES201: I hope everybody has heard of and understands that Ted Kaczynski was obsessed with wood. All of the bombs he used to kill people were made of wood. He killed Percy Wood. He killed the president of the California forestry association. He killed one of his victims on Aspen Drive. So it is very likely he sent the Pines Card.

To Unabomb Victims, a Deeper Mystery

By George Lardner and Lorraine Adams
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 14, 1996; Page A01

"Why me?" Patrick Fischer, chairman of the computer sciences department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, keeps asking himself in the days after the arrest of the man authorities believe was the elusive Unabomber. "Why was I selected?"

Across the country, at Brigham Young University, LeRoy Bearnson, an electrical engineering professor, asks the same question. Bearnson has never met Patrick Fischer, yet the Unabomber somehow found his name and used it on the return address of the explosive package that ended up in Fischer’s office 14 years ago.

Only recently, FBI agents hundreds of miles apart went to visit both men with a photograph of the bearded recluse Theodore J. Kaczynski, still looking for answers to the puzzle that has baffled investigators for more than 17 years.

The Unabomber’s victims were scattered around the country, unknown to each other and probably unknown to the Unabomber himself, except as names culled in outdated directories, newsletters and other publications. Some of the victims’ names have been found on handwritten notes and other documents in Kaczynski’s tiny Montana cabin, an isolated shack where FBI agents also have found a live bomb ready for shipment and what they believe is a draft of the infamous "manifesto" the Unabomber wrote trying to justify the attacks. Warnings went out only last week to forestry officials and current and former University of California-Berkeley professors whose names were found among Kaczynski’s papers.

If Kaczynski carried out the crimes, as authorities now seem confident, investigators still have not found a method to the madness. Interviews with a number of the more than two dozen Unibomb victims show they too are still grasping for clues and more mystified than ever now that the suspect has a name. They never met him. They never even heard of him. And the FBI has shared so little information with them that they can’t begin to understand why he picked them out.

"I suppose the guy didn’t care which way it went or who got blown up," Bearnson, 61, said of the package that listed him as the sender.

Neither Fischer nor Bearnson thinks there was anything personal about the Unabomber’s animosity. To him, they were just symbols in his hate-filled crusade against modern technology and its practitioners.

"He might pick out an individual, but the person was still a symbolic target to him," said Oliver B. "Buck" Revell, a former high-ranking FBI official who oversaw early stages of the Unabomb investigation. "I suspect that once he targeted the university research system, it didn’t matter that much who received it. I suspect he felt the country would pick up the symbolism." Since the FBI visited him, Fischer, 60, has thought of several things that could have brought him to Kaczynski’s attention. He was a graduate student in Cambridge, Mass., between 1958 and 1962, studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while Kaczynski was a Harvard math major. At one point, Fischer took a math course at Harvard. Perhaps Kaczynski had been in the same class.

"I asked the FBI that. They wouldn’t tell me," Fischer told a reporter Friday. He ruled out the possibility himself a few days ago by contacting the professor who taught the course.

Fischer’s father, Carl, taught math at the University of Michigan when Kaczynski was a graduate student there, earning first a master’s degree and then a doctorate. But Patrick Fischer doubts they crossed paths. Carl Fischer specialized in statistics and actuarial science and spent most of his time at the business school. Kaczynski’s specialty was much more abstruse: complex variables analysis.

"I couldn’t have understood his thesis," Patrick Fischer said. He now thinks Kaczynski might have gotten his name out of journals that published Fischer’s academic papers.

"My original research was pure math," he said. "Maybe I was regarded as a turncoat by this guy. I went from pure math to theoretical computer science."

The bomb that arrived in Fischer’s office at Vanderbilt on May 5, 1982, was delivered in spite of itself. Based on outdated information as well as canceled stamps, it had been addressed to him at Pennsylvania State University. He had moved to Vanderbilt in 1980. Someone at Penn State sent the package on.

"I was in Puerto Rico that day, giving some lectures," Fischer said. His secretary, Janet Smith, opened it. It was a pipe bomb filled with smokeless powder and match heads. "She got some nasty lacerations. She made a full recovery, but it was very traumatic for her. She’d just as soon forget about it," he said.

Bearnson was told long after the attack that he was the likely target. The package bore canceled stamps when the Unabomber placed it in a Provo mailbox, a trick, authorities believe, to ensure that it would be sent back to the return address.

Bearnson wonders if his name was on the package because of his expertise in technology or possibly because his middle name is "Wood." The Unabomber has always been preoccupied with wood, painstakingly carving bomb parts out of wooden pieces and boxing the videocassette-sized packages with different varieties of wood.

One of his earlier bombs was mailed to Chicago area home of Percy A. Wood, president of United Airlines, seriously injuring him. In April 1995, the bomber killed the president of the California Forestry Association in Sacramento, and a year before a prominent New York public relations executive who lived on Aspen Drive in North Caldwell, N.J. The "wood" connection is tenuous but it is one of the few authorities have shared with the public.

In the 14 years after his name appeared on the bomb package, Bearnson said he was interviewed dozens of times by investigators, reviewing his entire life in a vain search for some connection between himself and the Unabomber. He remembered spending a lot of time doing consulting work in Salt Lake City, a city familiar to the Unabomber — and to Kaczynski — "but if I ran across him, I don’t remember it."

He did not learn until recently about the canceled stamps. Last month, the FBI told him the stamps had a green line running through them and that both the clerk at the Brigham Young University postal station where the package was deposited and the U.S. Postal Service worker who brought it downtown noticed the marks. He said he still has no idea why the package wasn’t returned to him for insufficient postage, but he thinks the Unabomber meant that to happen.

"The agents made it very clear that I was the target," he said. "I still have no idea why, except my feeling is that he chose names at random with certain associations."

Fischer, a close student of the case, said he was never told about the canceled stamps until a reporter called. "I don’t get anything directly from the FBI," he said. "I get it from the media, or other people." He said he might try to start a Unabomber victims’ association, to exchange information.

"The FBI has wanted to get us together, under their auspices," Fischer said, "but they never could pull it off because of scheduling problems. Some of us are talking to each other now, by e-mail."

The Unabomber’s first explosive device had an either-or flavor to it as well. A woman found it on the University of Chicago campus, addressed to a professor who was hundreds of miles away, teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. The return addressee was a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

"The woman returned the package to the sender," the FBI has said, "but since he had not sent it and did not know the addressee, he contacted the campus police." A pipe bomb packed in a carved wooden box, it exploded when one of the police officers opened it, sustaining slight injuries.

Over the years, the Unabomber struck at least 16 times, killing three people and injuring 23. His first bombs were "not intended to kill, they were intended to maim or do property damage," Revell said. The Unabomber was disappointed in the results.

"Our early bombs were too ineffectual to attract much public attention or give encouragement to those who hate the system," he wrote in a letter to the New York Times last April, a few days after the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building eclipsed everything he had done. Striving for renewed attention, he said he had taken "a couple of years off to do some experimenting. We learned how to make pipe bombs that were powerful enough, and we used these in a couple of successful bombings as well as in some unsuccessful ones," he said.

The Unabomber struck places as well as people. His bombings at Berkeley, where he taught math for two years in the late 1960s, were among the least personal. They weren’t mailed or addressed to anyone. But they were intriguing: The bombs that injured Diogenes Angelakos in 1982 and John Hauser in 1985 were planted in the same University of California-Berkeley building: Cory Hall.

"Cory Hall is not far from where Kaczynski taught," said Capt. Bill Foley, of the Berkeley campus police, who has worked the case since 1985. "He taught in Campbell Hall, and had offices in one of our temporary buildings. If you did a triangle between Campbell and that temporary building you would hit Cory Hall at peak of the triangle."

Cory Hall housed the engineering and computer sciences departments in late ’60s, as it does today. It was the one place the Unabomber hit twice.

Angelakos, now retired, was an electrical engineering professor. The bomb that attracted his attention in a fourth-floor faculty lounge just before 8 a.m. on July 2, 1982, was cleverly innocuous. It looked like a turpentine can, something inadvertently left behind by a construction worker. It injured his right hand.

The bomb that struck Hauser three years later, on May 15, 1985, was much more powerful, made of a mix of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder.

Hauser was a graduate engineering student and an Air Force pilot at the time he walked into a computer lab where the bomb had been left, sitting atop some three-ring binders. Police say it had been there for two or three days. Hauser thought it was a file box for some other graduate student’s computer cards and wondered to whom it belonged.

When he picked it up, it burst four fingers off his right hand and severed arteries in his arm. By coincidence, Angelakos was down the hall, heard the explosion, and used a colleague’s tie to make a tourniquet for Hauser’s arm. Hauser’s Air Force career was over. He still does not have full use of his right arm.

Now an electrical engineering professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Hauser considers himself the Unabomber’s "most anonymous" victim. He hadn’t published any academic works at the time. "This was as much a target of opportunity as anything else," he said last week.

Foley said investigators were puzzled for years by the choice of Cory Hall. "Why pick a classroom building in a research area? Why not administrative? Now we’re wondering, why not target the math department? What’s interesting too is between the two Cory Hall blasts he really didn’t strike again," Foley said. "He did mail to Boeing Aircraft in Washington state. . . . It got lost in the internal mail system. They were in the process of returning it to sender because it had bounced around a while, and while they were in process of doing that, they had the bomb squad open it up." That June 1985 package bomb was safely disarmed.

The next bomb, unlike the others, may have been spurred by personal animosity. Its intended target, University of Michigan psychology professor James V. McConnell, seems to have embodied everything the Unabomber detested. He was rich, flamboyant, irreverent and controversial. His success came from expounding theories that could sound chilling, especially to someone obsessed with fears that technology and science were taking over modern society.

Like many proponents of "behavior modification," McConnell believed that people could be molded simply by deciding what they should be and then manipulating their behavior.

McConnell’s work originated from research with flatworms. After training some of the half-inch-long worms to navigate a simple maze, McConnell then ground up the trained worms and fed them to untrained worms, finding that they were able to negotiate the maze better than a "control group." Outspoken and popular, he was teaching on the Ann Arbor campus when Kaczynski was a graduate student in mathematics there. There is no evidence so far that he and Kaczynski crossed paths, but even so, McConnell would have been hard to miss. In 1964, he won attention when a Saturday Evening Post article described his work and suggested that someday humans might be able "to learn the piano by taking a pill, or to take calculus by injection." Two months later, McConnell took his celebrated flatworms on the Steve Allen show.

More fame, and fortune, came in the 1970s with publication of McConnell’s jaunty textbook, "Understanding Human Behavior." It was used on 700 campuses and sold more than a million copies. The FBI included the book on a list it gave to bookstore owners in Montana in trying to track Kaczynski’s reading habits.

A 1982 People magazine article pointed out that McConnell’s royalties of $250,000 a year had provided him with a $40,000 Mercedes, a 1,000-bottle wine cellar and a new $1 million house.

The Unabomber’s package arrived at that house, just outside Ann Arbor, three years later, on Nov. 15, 1985. Taped to the top was a one-page letter with a Salt Lake City postmark. "I’d like you to read this book," it said. "Everybody in your position should read this book."

McConnell asked his assistant, Nicklaus Suino, 25, to open it. Suino started wrestling with it on a kitchen counter and it exploded.

The blast blew a six-inch hole in the kitchen counter, and Suino suffered shrapnel wounds and powder burns on his arms and legs. McConnell suffered only a slight hearing loss, but the bombing shook him deeply, as he pointed out in a letter provided by a friend and co-author, Daniel Gorenflo. McConnell, who died in 1990, wrote, "I just wandered around the house, scared, angry and frustrated." Told by investigators that the bomber had never struck any victim twice, he concluded, "it’s the next name on the list that we need to give thought to."

The "next name" in the Unabomber case, Hugh C. Scrutton, 32, was the first one to be killed. A bomb that looked like a piece of debris killed him when he picked it up outside the back door of his Sacramento computer rental store. It was a crude device, filled with tiny pieces of nails for maximum effect.

Scrutton had Berkeley connections. He was a summer math student in 1967, the year Kaczynski started teaching there.

Capt. Foley said, "We’re trying to determine through old course catalogues whether Kaczynski taught at that time or started in the fall of ’67."

A friend of Scrutton, John Lawyer, said FBI agents were exploring that and other angles when they visited him in Plains, Mont., last month. The FBI asked about the extent of Scrutton’s travels through Montana and Salt Lake City. "They are setting out to reconstruct the lives of victims," Lawyer said, "trying to make any connection they can." Homicide detective Bob Bell of the Sacramento sheriff’s department, who headed the local investigation into Scrutton’s death, said the process is called "victimology," a chore that ranges over everything from girlfriends to tax forms.

Another possible tie-in to Berkeley concerns Gilbert B. Murray, the timber lobbyist from Sacramento, who was killed April 24, 1995. Murray graduated from Berkeley in 1975. But the package he opened was addressed to his predecessor at the California Forestry Association, William Dennison, a 1959 Berkeley graduate who lectured at Berkeley between 1971 to 1988.

Finally, there is the letter the Unabomber sent to Berkeley social psychology professor Tom Tyler last spring.

On May 1, 1995, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about the Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber. The first person quoted in it was Tyler.

Tyler said he was not at Berkeley when Kaczynski was. The envelope the Unabomber sent was addressed to him as "head of the social psychology group," the same incorrect title he was given in the Chronicle.

The letter, accompanied by the Unabomber’s manifesto, was straightforward.

"I said in the article that the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber were examples of people who had exaggerated feelings that the government was out to get them," Tyler said. "The Unabomber objected to that characterization of him."

He asked Tyler to read his manifesto, one of six copies he sent out at that time, including ones to the New York Times and The Washington Post, which published it last fall.

The Unabomber has expressed regret over some of his targets, such as the passengers of an American Airlines plane he tried to blow up in 1979 on a flight from Chicago to Washington. Placed in a mailbag, the bomb caught fire without exploding.

"The idea was to kill a lot of business people who we assumed would constitute the majority of passengers," the Unabomber said in a letter to the Times last June. "But of course, some passengers would likely have been innocent people — maybe kids or some working stiff going to see his sick grandmother. We’re glad now that that attempt failed."

The Unabomber also mentioned the injury done to Fischer’s secretary and said: "We certainly regret that." But he made clear that he had no compunctions about his most recent victims: Murray in Sacramento and public relations executive Thomas J. Mosser who died at his North Caldwell, N.J., residence in December 1994. "[W]hen we were young and comparatively reckless," he wrote, "we were much more careless in selecting targets than we are now."

Earlier last year, after the Oklahoma City bombing, he tried to regain attention, openly admitting that he killed Mosser.

"We blew up Thomas Mosser last December," the Unabomber said in the letter the Times received on April 24, 1995, "because he was a Burston[sic]-Marsteller executive . . . Burston[sic]-Marsteller is about the biggest organization in the public relations field. This means that its business is the development of techniques for manipulating people’s attitudes."

Once again, the Unabomber seems to have relied on an outdated publication or directory. Mosser had left Burson-Marsteller nine months before he was killed for its parent company, Young & Rubicam Inc.

But that may have made no difference to the Unabomber. To him, the public relations man was just "a symbol."

Staff writers Pierre Thomas in Washington, Jacqueline Salmon in Ann Arbor, William Claiborne in Salt Lake City, Benjamin Weiser in New York, and Thomas Heath in Sacramento contributed to this report; staff researchers Alice Crites and Margot Williams also contributed.

Copyright © 1997 The Washington Post Co.
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Holmes201: A man named Bearnson was killed by the Unabomber. Bearn is the Middle English word for barn. Which is made out of wood of course.

And why do you think he picked Cherry St., Maple Street and Spruce Street to kill his victims in the Presidio neighborhood? Because it’s woods.
Holmes201

Zodiac sent pictures of trees, pine trees, cards with trees on them like the Halloween card , etc. It’s just like Ted Kaczynski obsessed with wood and things connected with wood.

AK Wilks: Yes, I would argue that NATURE themes and words repeatedly occur in the Zodiac crimes, locations and mailings. The water references are numerous, including Blue Rock SPRINGS, LAKE Berryessa and South LAKE Tahoe. The Stine murder took place at MAPLE Street, near CHERRY Street, both types of TREES.

Then there are the numerous tree, wood and other nature references that appear in the mailings, including the TREE in the Halloween card, the peek through the PINES card, the in the WOODS dies April card mentioning Monticello, which means Little MOUNTAIN and the possible Zodiac card of the Celebrity Cypher, which has a picture of a TREE on an OCEAN beach. The possible 1990 Zodiac Christmas card features a SNOWman with TREE twigs and a RABBIT in front of it.

A man named Bearnson was killed by the Unabomber. Bearn is the Middle English word for barn. Which is made out of wood of course.

AK Wilks: I was not aware of that word. While Ted K indeed have a strong trees and wood obsession, I have argued elsewhere that it might be more accurate to say he had an obsession with NATURE. Nature words and themes occur repeatedly in his victims names, addresses, mailings another aspects of his crimes. These include repeated mentions of water, lakes, ice, oceans, mountains, animals and most especially and frequently, trees and wood. The crimes of the Zodiac Killer, the Tylenol Murderer and the Unabomber all exhibited this same pattern of nature, trees and wood names, locations and associations.

The two victims who were wondering so much why they were selected, when they were not particularly distinguished in their fields and could think of no interactions they ever had with Kaczynski, I suspect they were targeted by their names. Their names both contain ANIMAL references, in addition to one having a wood reference.

Patrick FISCHer.

Leroy WOOD BEARnson.

Interesting fact about Unabomber victim Thomas Mosser. Authorities had a difficult time figuring out why this PR executive was targeted. He did NOT work for Exxon, forestry companies, computer or high tech companies. Most of his clients were in the entertainment industry. He DID work for Johnson & Johnson in the aftermath of the 1982 Chicago area Tylenol Murders, and was credited with effectively repairing the image of that company after the crisis. If, as I and Doug Oswell claim, Ted was the Tylenol Murderer, he would have a very strong motive for revenge against Thomas Mosser.

HOLMES201 made some excellent posts on the Pines card and I am transferring them to here.

HOLMES201: I hope everybody has heard of and understands that Ted Kaczynski was obsessed with wood. (..) He killed one of his victims on Aspen Drive. So it is very likely he sent the Pines Card.

No, could you please explain again?

Just joking..think this thread has the longest posts ever..

Let Lambda be a plane in dimension y with boundary function…well, I will keep it short:

Ted was really some type of nature guy, ok, so am I (currently camping in Sardegna..). He was convinced, technology is bad, ok, so think most of the Amish, too (and they even might be right).

But just being a nature guy doesn’t make Ted become the author of the Pines card, does it? Or did I miss something?

Also I don’t see any connection between ‘Aspen Drive’ and ‘Pines card’ except both terms contain a word related to the woods? With pines being only one word out of a few from that card?

QT

And why do you think he picked Cherry St., Maple Street and Spruce Street to kill his victims in the Presidio neighborhood? Because it’s woods.

Zodiac sent pictures of trees, pine trees, cards with trees on them like the Halloween card , etc. It’s just like Ted Kaczynski obsessed with wood and things connected with wood.

Halloween was with a pumpkin and bones.

Attack was not Maple but Washington & Cherry. Picked up at Geary/Mason, with Blue rock springs, Lake Herman Road and Lake Berryessa as well as Riverside (believers), not much about woods, that’s all I say. Presidio Heights.

It’s not against your theory but reminds me of Water or golf theory..there is wood, streets, water, golf almost anywhere..although I agree to TK’s obsession of woods, still doubting all of his bombs were made out of wood.

QT

Quicktrader: Halloween (Card) was with a pumpkin and bones.

AK Wilks: Inside the Halloween Card was a TREE with eyes peeking through it.

Quicktrader: Attack was not Maple but Washington & Cherry. Picked up at Geary/Mason

AK Wilks: In Zodiac’s mind the attack was at Maple Street, and it was important enough to him that he noted it in his letter claiming credit.

Quicktrader: With Blue rock springs, Lake Herman Road and Lake Berryessa as well as Riverside (believers), not much about woods, that’s all I say. Presidio Heights.

AK Wilks: Ted was obsessed with NATURE themes and words in his crimes. In the Unabomber crimes, there was repeated targeting of victims, streets and cities with nature words, including water, lakes, mountains and animals, with a particular focus on trees and wood.

Yes it is a long topic thread, but setting aside for the moment the Tylenol Murders, to shorten it a little bit, here are just some of the main points showing the Unabomber and the Zodiac shared an obsession with nature, water, mountains, animals and most of all trees and wood:

"In the Unabomber’s case a large factor was his obsession with wood. Wood. Wood was everywhere. It haunted his mind, controlled his actions, wood was his goal and mode of attack. He selected as his enemies people who had wood – associated names, addresses, or businesses."

From "Unabomber: A Desire To Kill", By Robert Graysmith

Acting as the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski used a criminal signature utilizing nature themes such as water, ice, animals, hills, mountains and in particular TREES and WOOD. The NATURE, TREES and WOOD theme was a major focal point of the FBI investigation, as it was one of the few obvious clues Kaczynski left in his trail of bombings. Kaczynski of course lived not far from a stream in a wood cabin among the tree covered hills and mountains of Montana. The consistent references to Water, Trees, Wood and Mountains could have been a way to signal his belief in the primacy of nature over industrial technology, a taunting clue to his Montana location and/or a calling card link to claim credit for his crimes.

Kaczynski later targeted certain groups of people – business executives, professors in technological subjects, computer workers. But within these broad groups, he would usually select a specific person whose name, street or city had a tie to a Nature, Wood or Trees theme, or he would make the references in fake return addresses. It would take several pages to list in detail all of the examples of the Kaczynski Nature, Trees and Wood mania, so I will just mention the highlights.

Kaczynski as the Unabomber mailed bombs to targets in Salt LAKE City, LAKE FOREST Illinois and Ann ARBOR Michigan. He included a copy of the novel "The ICE Brothers" in a bomb package, the story of which concerns a boat on OCEAN patrol near GREENland. Targeted persons named Patrick FISCHer, James HILL, Percy WOOD and Leroy WOOD BEARson. All of his bombs had parts made of WOOD and/or were concealed in WOOD boxes. Enclosed items within his bomb packages such as parts, sticks or twigs from TREES of Maple WOOD, Red WOOD, Cherry WOOD and Douglas Fir WOOD. Selected victims that lived on streets like FOREST HILL or ASPEN (a type of poplar TREE and a town in Colorado associated with MOUNTAINS). Used return addresses of OAKland California, RAVENSWOOD Street and BERG or BURG three times which is German for MOUNTAIN and castle. There are many other examples with NATURE, WOOD or TREE themes, but one more will make the point rather clearly – a return address of Frederick Benjamin Isaac WOOD, 549 WOOD Street, WOODLAKE California. (FBI profiler John Douglas noted he thought the intended message here was "FBI: WOOD, WOOD, WOOD!")

I have shown that Theodore Kaczynski was known by his criminal signature of using victims, streets, cities and other clues pertaining to themes of Nature, in particular Water, Mountains, Animals and (most of all)Trees and Wood. Knowing that Kaczynski is a suspect for being the Zodiac Killer, let us look at that case for a similar criminal signature.

Probable and definite Zodiac crimes took place at RIVERside, Blue Rock SPRINGS, LAKE Herman Road, LAKE Berryessa, South LAKE Tahoe.

Zodiac told cab driver Paul Stine to go to Washington and MAPLE street, it is MAPLE street Z refers to in his letter claiming credit for the murder and crime actually took place closest to CHERRY street. Of course both are types of TREES.

Pat Tan, 4/19/70, possible Z victim, found hanging from a TREE on Mt. Tam.

Isobel Watson, 4/7/72, a possible Z victim, was stabbed in the Tamalpais Valley area on PINE HILL Road.

Yvonne Weber (13 years old) and Maureen Sterling (12 years old), 2/4/72, possible Z victims in Sonoma County, last seen alive at the REDWOOD Ice Rink.

Barbara Jane Perkins, 12/8/67, possible Z victim, a nurse who lived on Grant street in Berkeley, 1.4 miles from TJK residence on Regent street, found at Point Reyes National SEASHORE, head was "tucked against base of fallen TREE."

Daniel Williams, possible Z victim, lived on BUSH street in Martinez, reported calls from man claiming to be Z and arsenic poison later put into a soda pop bottle.

Unknown female U Cal Riverside student, November 1966, possible Z victim, accepted ride from man matching Z description, man said "after all I’m not Jack the Ripper," spoke of Cheri Jo Bates death, told woman "I’m not going to kill you. If I wanted to kill you I could just hit you in the head with this piece of WOOD." Attacked the student, who then escaped.

Z sent map with focus on Mt. Diablo, a MOUNTAIN.

Z sent card with "peek through the PINES" on it, card hinted a body could be found "around in the SNOW", mentioned "SIERRA club" SIERRA being Spanish for "MOUNTAIN range" (SIERRA club also concerned with protecting NATURE, and TJK was a member), letter mentioning torture by shoving PINE needles under fingernails, Halloween card had eyes looking through a TREE, suspected of sending a taunting Christmas card to sister of probable victim Donna Lass with picture of PINE TREE covered with SNOW, and saying "Saint Donna, Guardian of the PINES." Another card mentioned Monticello (Italian for little MOUNTAIN), and "in the WOODS dies April". The possible Z card in September 1990, the Celebrity Cypher, had a picture of a TREE on an OCEAN beach. And the possible Z communication in December 1990, the Christmas card, had a SNOWman, made with TREE TWIGS, with a RABBIT in front of him.

July 13, 1971, Letters pasted on picture: "NEAR MONTICELLO SHOUGHT VICTIMS 21…IN THE WOODS DIES APRIL"

Note "In The WOODS". Note also "Monticello" in Italian means "little mountain".

Snow, Tree Twigs, Rabbit

Ted Kaczynski sent a letter in December 1990 using same stamp as Zodiac Christmas Card to the SF Chronicle. In the letter to Mrs. Preston, Ted complains about a Christmas card he just purchased, noting it cost $1.15 – the exact price of the Zodiac Christmas card.

This all tends to show too many occurrences to just be chance and that the Zodiac Killer, Theodore Kaczynski and the Tylenol Killer all had a very similar criminal signature – the use of Nature themes, in particular Water, Mountains, Animals, Trees and Wood.

I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere but has that 1990 Xmas card & envelope ever been tested for DNA under the stamp, flap, etc?

I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere but has that 1990 Xmas card & envelope ever been tested for DNA under the stamp, flap, etc?

I don’t know. On the one hand, it is not a confirmed Zodiac mailing. On the other hand, being from 1990 instead on 1969 or 1970, if Zodiac did lick the stamp or flap (which I tend to doubt), there would be a much better chance of actually getting a fresh, full DNA profile.

Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is 281 acres of different types of trees. All the college kids go there to see those trees from Harvard. No other college has that kind of thing that I’ve ever heard of. That was built in 1931.

Maybe I can come out to California and talk to the people who are messing with that girl Sandy here. I’ve been thinking about doing that. I have a 5 pound sash weight.