you are live in the cnn news room. jim acosta has the day off. thank you so much for joining us. we came to know him as a country by a single name, the unibomber. he is now dead. he was found lifeless in his prison cell. he was 81 years old. the unibomber case eluded the fbi for two decades until his own brother helped crack the case. following the updates for us, senior law enforcement analyst and the former deputy director of the fbi. stay with us. i want to ask you to bring us up to speed on how he died. so here s what we know coming directly from the federal bureau
there are some investigations that really survive the test of time and remain in the public consciousness. this is certainly one of those. one that bedevilled the organization for two decades. i think it s also a case that really changed the way the fbi thought about these sort of investigations and the way we thought about some of our own capabilities, how to more effectively use the public to generate leads on a dormant investigation. i was not a part of the investigation. i actually arrived at quantico about four months after the unibomber was arrested. but even at that early time, i mean, i remember studying this case in quantico as an example of both what to do and whatnot to do. can you speak more to that? how that changed the way that you investigated, that you reached out, as you said, to the general public. how did it change the way that the fbi went about things?
tipped off by his own brother and sister-in-law. this is what his brother and sister-in-law shared with reporters in 2016. when she said, well, i think maybe your brother s the unibomber, i thought, well, this is not anything to worry about. ted s never been violent. i ve never seen him violent. i had posted the first few pages of the manifesto on the screen computer in the lobby of the library. so dave went with me, and then as dave read the first page, i was sitting at his side, and his jaw dropped. i thought i was going to read the first page of this, turn to linda and say, see, i told you so. on an emotional level, it just sounded like my brother s voice. it s such important incite that adds perspective. as part of a beedeal to avoid t
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out but say it is too early to tell if the victims were the intended targets or if they might be hate crimes. surveillance cameras near the location are being scanned to see if the video captured any potential suspect. the packages were not delivered by the postal service or shipping companies like fedex and u.p.s. police are now telling everyone in and around the austin area that if a box shows up at your home and you did not expect it to call 911. back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s the unibomber sent packages around the country and it took the investigators 18 years to bring him to justice. laura: trace, thank you so much. when we return, the last bite.