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Newspoem 6 April 1996

FBI Enlists High-Tech Tools

HELENA, Montana - FBI investigators relying old-fashioned shoe leather sophisticated forensic techniques Saturday worked FBI agents appeared confident enlisted DNA analysis spy satellites sifted through small mountain evidence collected 10-by-12-foot cabin surrounding woods 60 miles (100 km) northwest Helena reportedly sent FBI laboratories Quantico, Va. rejected industrial society late 20th century letters news organizations rambling 35,000-word essay published demand last year, federal authorities have tackled case own terms example, evidence experts using advanced DNA science effort provide genetic match between suspect dried saliva found postage stamps used mail letters deadly packages stakeout tiny cabin went several weeks used advanced monitoring equipment possibly including spy satellites. Legal experts said weeks months before charges brought possibly California Gov. Pete Wilson declared see suspect tried case, prosecutors time further court hearings scheduled April 17, when grand jury meet Great Falls, Montana, determine whether sufficient evidence indict bomb charge unclear whether evidence brought before Montana grand jury case mentioned court proceedings meantime waived right bail held Lewis & Clark County jail described docile prisoner although 24-hour suicide watch due high-profile nature case America's most-wanted criminals since first devices blew Northwestern University 1978 1979 federal task force built huge database years agents frustrated inability come anything more murky sketch man seen fleetingly witness parking lot draw psychological profile serial bomber, theorizing highly educated but anti-social individual, possibly connections Chicago northern California areas several attacks took place raised Chicago, educated Harvard taught University California Berkeley, closely fits psychological profile circulated FBI name turned FBI files early 1994, according ABC News, arrested tip younger brother noticed similarities writings documents discovered family's suburban Chicago house

Unabomber Suspect's Cabin

found defused live bomb searching mountain cabin former university math professor Theodore Kaczynski, suspected notorious proceeding cautiously cabin fear booby-trapped, discovered bomb Friday remote homestead Lincoln, Montana not known device intended specific target latest disclosure Saturday tour 1.4-acre property, providing closeup look primitive conditions plotted 17-year reign terror earlier announced found partially completed bomb, chemicals components described virtual bomb-making workshop convinced 53, University California Berkeley responsible string 16 attacks killed three people injured 23 unable say longer continue searching cabin painstaking process Wednesday Kaczynski taken custody Kaczynski only charged one count illegally possessing destructive device, tactic designed keep jail attacks continued scouring Kaczynski's 10 -12-foot cabin, pool taken tour property end muddy dirt road area cordoned yellow crime scene tape cabin, cardboard boxes stood plywood tables, apparently used sorting Kaczynski's belongings two small gardens grew most food. Kaczynski, lived hermit existence early 1970s, remained held bail waived right preliminary hearing bomb-possession proceed. Evidence introduced shows long list bomb-making materials notebooks filled bomb sketches writings cabin lived without running water electricity need physical evidence shown link specific attacks link two most recent fatal mail bombings 1994 1995, federal death-penalty law effect bombings killed New York City advertising executive North Caldwell, New Jersey 1994 president California Forestry Association Sacramento focusing travel records effort link bombs mailed northern California, Chicago elsewhere reviewing guest records interviewing managers low-income hotels Berkeley two attacks trying match manual typewriters found cabin letters 35,000-word manifesto spending days jail reading ancient medieval history books cell little more than half size cabin arrested last week.


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