for almost two decades, he skillfully evaded identification and capture. we had literally hundreds and hundreds of suspects. he dropped out of sight for six years. people thought he was dead. he was obsessed about leaving fingerprint evidence. nobody has ever seen anybody like theodore kaczynski. the hunt for the unabomber. next. a simple sketch was almost all investigators had to go on. the facial features were distinct, but the head was cloaked by a hood.
seen that car. well, that s strange. it s a red mustang. you ve never seen a red mustang? then i pulled out a picture of diane that david had given me and i handed it to him. but he wouldn t take the picture. i tried to hand it to him, he wouldn t take it. davis initially denied any involvement. but when told of the fingerprint evidence, he confessed. i m very sorry that it happened, and i ve cried and i ve prayed what i did wrong. he d been out of prison five days when he killed diane. and his life was a lifetime of crime. after more than 30 years, the mystery was finally solved. well, my father was ecstatic. it just was a huge boost for him, you know, that they knew who it was. i ve worked scores or hundreds of murders. and they re all important to me. but it s not very often that you re personally touched by them.
of titanium dioxide, and were the same knit pattern, schubert made a definitive assessment. with our cutting-edge technology here, we were able to come up with the results that proved that he was likely the perpetrator of this crime. finally, investigators compared taylor s fingerprints to the print found on the pay phone. it was a match. and the fingerprint evidence revealed something else. investigators found paul taylor s left palm print on a plastic garbage bag found near kathy woodhouse s body, proof he was in the back room of the dry cleaning store on the day of the murder. rensic science proved what the eyewitnesses couldn t, that paul taylor had killed kathy woodhouse. the truth of the matter is that positive identification is
others. in all sixteen bombs, their locations all over the united states. i began to think i may not make it. his base of operations was crude. the cabin was a bomb factory. his devices were hideously lethal. matches, piece of wood, nails. that s an antipersonnel device. that s used to maim or kill. for almost two decades, he skillfully evaded identification and capture. we had literally hundreds and hundreds of suspects. he dropped out of sight for six years. people thought he was dead. he was obsessed about leaving fingerprint evidence. nobody has seen anybody like theodore kaczynski. the hunt for the unabomber. next.
letters the unabomber sent, the address was 9th and pennsylvania avenue northwest in washington, d.c. which, of course, is the address of the j. edgar hoover fbi building. in one of the letters he said the fbi is a joke. the fbi will not be catching us any time soon. the fbi, of course, had no idea about the unabomber s identity or whereabouts. and ted kaczynski took great pains to make sure he didn t leave a single clue. he would take files and he would file everything down after he built something so that he could ensure that he was getting rid of fingerprints. he was obsessed about leaving fingerprint evidence. kaczynski also planted false clues to throw investigators off the trail. he went to a bathroom at the bus station in missoula, montana, and he actually took hairs off the floor of the restroom. and then in subsequent bombs, he would take those hairs and put them in between layers of tape.