He resigned from Cal in 1969, eventually moving to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Montana. Living in solitude without electrical power or running water, he traveled by bicycle and raised his own food. His hobbies were reading classic books in their original language and constructing homemade bombs from wood and metal, most of which were mailed to college professors he’d never met. When finally captured in 1996, Kaczynski looked like a bearded wild man, the unwashed caricature of a brilliant, misanthropic ecoterrorist. His attorneys wanted to plead insanity, but Kaczynski refused—he knew
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