Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-279).
Contents:
part 1. First impressions of a serial killer: 1984 ; The sale ; A new friendship ; In seach of... ; Born to ; Time to buy a watch ; A day at the mill ; Junkyard bomber -- part 2. The signs: Happy ; D.B. Cooper ; The meadow ; Not street legal ; A ghost in the woods ; Evil in the gulch ; Couldn't be Ted ; A funding proposition ; Sabotage, Sawmill Landing ; Pretty little boxes ; Home alone with Ted ; In the crosshairs -- part 3. The moment everything changed: Bad guys and other childhood memories ; Ted's woods ; Manifesto : pride goeth before the fall ; Then they arrived : meeting the FBI ; One step closer ; A favor ; The capture ; Breaking news ; The aftermath ; Grief is a space between -- Epilogue: The end ; List of Ted Kaczynski's crimes.
Summary:
"A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was 'just the odd hermit.' In fact, he was much more--Ted eluded the FBI for seventeen years while mailing explosives to strangers, earning the infamous title of Unabomber. In Gehring's investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood and to answer the questions, why, how, she recalls what were once innocent memories and odd circumstances that become less puzzling in hindsight. The innocence of her youth robbed, Gehring needed to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that hid in plain sight. In this book, through years of research probing Ted's personal history, his writings, his secret coded crime journals, her own correspondence with him in his Supermax prison cell, plus interviews with others close to Kaczynski, Gehring unearths the complexity, mystery, and tragedy of her childhood with the madman in the woods. And she discovers a shocking revelation--she and her family were in Kaczynski's crosshairs. A work of intricately braided research, journalism, and personal memories, this book is a chilling response to the question: Do you really know your neighbor?" -- Description provided by publisher.
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