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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by Steko on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:47PM (#15145978)
The profiling is interesting but in this case, the FBI was irrelevant to 'solving the case', Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law saw the manifesto in the NYT and turned him in.
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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by cabinguy on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:40AM (#15146169)
The FBI made the call to publish the manifesto, hoping for this exact outcome.
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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by Steko on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:01AM (#15146474)
I stand half corrected, they did encourage publishing along with DoJ and it was the papers which ultimately made the call.
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