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Unabomber: In His Own Words : Season 1
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Air date: 22 Feb '20 - 4 episodesFrom 1978 until his arrest in 1996, Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant mathematician and drop-out professor, held America ransom sending a series of homemade bombs that injured 23, and killed three victims. Playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the FBI, Kaczynski evaded capture and taunted his pursuers in what became the longest and most expensive manhunt in American law-enforcement history.
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List of Episodes (4)
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Unabomber: In His Own Words (2020)
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1. Episode 1
22 Feb '20The first episode examines the start of the Unabomber's campaign of terror spanning from 1978 to 1985, and dives into Kaczynski’s childhood to discover what might have made a young mathematical genius with few friends evolve into a sociopathic terrorist.
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Unabomber: In His Own Words (2020)
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2. Episode 2
22 Feb '20Picking up in 1985, Part Two tells the story of how the Unabomber began to ramp-up his terror campaign, claiming his first murder and taunting his FBI pursuers. Kaczynski’s secret journals from his time as a grad student in Michigan reveal the extraordinary moment when his thoughts first turned to murder.
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Unabomber: In His Own Words (2020)
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3. Episode 3
22 Feb '20Part Three recounts the period from 1993 to 1996, when the Unabomber was holding America ransom with a series of increasingly powerful bombs before his arrest in 1996. Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law reveal the emotional story of how they came to suspect he was the Unabomber, which ultimately led to his arrest.
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Unabomber: In His Own Words (2020)
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4. Episode 4
29 Feb '20The final episode of the series examines Kaczynski's trial, with the revelation that he was subjected to a secret psychological experiment as a teenaged student at Harvard, a fact some claim could have been responsible for turning him into the terrorist he became.
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