Unabomber’s personal belongings to be auctioned online

Ted Kaczynski, the center of the FBI’s most expensive manhunt in history, will have several of his personal items auctioned online. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. ruled that items including books, tools and clothes should be part of the sale in an effort to raise money for the $15 million in restitution Kaczynski was ordered to pay victims.

Justifying his actions in his manifesto Industrial Society and Its Future, Kaczynski sent several mail bombs, many to airlines and universities, resulting in three deaths and injuring twenty-nine. It was from his targets that he gained the name Unabomber, a combination of university and airline. His manifesto, based on the damaging effects of technological progress on the individual, was published in the New York Times and the Washington Post in 1995.

In 1996 the FBI arrested Kaczynski at his remote Montana cabin. Now 64, Ted Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in Florence, Colorado at a Supermax prison in ADX Florence.

The order by federal judge Garland Burrell Jr. to auction Kaczynski’s belongings will not include material that specifies bomb making instructions.