A California man was convicted of two felony counts Wednesday after sending a series of threatening emails to the FBI, including one in which he referenced the Unabomber and threatened to bomb the bureau’s Los Angeles Field Office.
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. He appears in this documentary. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com A new documentary about the Unabomber/Ted Kaczynski will begin airing on Netflix Saturday (Feb. 22). “The Unabomber – In His Own Words” is so titled because…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. He wrote two critiques (1 and 2) of the Discovery Channel series, “Manhunt Unabomber,” in which he criticized the way FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald was portrayed as having a much bigger role in…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The Discovery Channel TV series, “Manhunt Unabomber,” disrespects achievements of the “Unabom” investigation by creating a predominantly fictionalized story. One of the shows I watched in my youth was “The Untouchables.” I was about ten when it premiered in 1959 on TV, and it was one the things that inspired me…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. Stejskal was the case agent on the UNABOM bombing that targeted Michigan Prof. James McConnell in 1985, and investigated Kaczynski’s time at Michigan as a grad student. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The Discovery Channel…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When FBI agents raided the Montana cabin of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in April 1996, they found a bomb ready to use, according to the author of a book on the case. KCRA interviewed former FBI Agent Terry Turchie, who reveals chilling new details in a book, “How the FBI Broke Its Own…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before he was charged with child pornography and leaking classified information, Donald Sachtleben was an important expert on bombs for the FBI, the Indianapolis Star reports. Sachtleben collected evidence after the attack on the Word Trade Center, 10 years before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He found bomb-making notes and other evidence in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few authors write with as much insight into violence and war as William Vollmann. The winner of a National Book Award, Vollmann revealed in a Harper’s essay, “Life as a Terrorist,” that he was suspected of being a terrorist and even the Unabomber because of the content of his fiction, the Washington…
