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From 1996_ Unabomber manhunt ends after nearly 2 decades · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: A possible break this evening in the search for the
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  Speaker 1: killer known as the Unibomber. The FBI has arrested a
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  Speaker 1: suspect in Montana after he was fingered by relatives. Until
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  Speaker 1: and unless this citizen is proven guilty, he has, of
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  Speaker 1: course presumed Dennison. CBS News corresponded. Jim Stewart, who's been
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  Speaker 1: following the unibamber case for a long time, broke the
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  Speaker 1: arrest story today and joins US Now from Washington with
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  Speaker 1: the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Dan, the longest and most intense man hunting US history,
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  Speaker 2: has zeroed in on a prime suspect and may be
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  Speaker 2: nearing an end, sources tell CBS News. FBI agents today
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  Speaker 2: searched the home of a fifty three year old former
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  Speaker 2: mathematics teacher named Theodor Kazenski just outside Lincoln, Montana, and
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  Speaker 2: discovered enough evidence that they later took him into custody
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  Speaker 2: for questioning about the Unibomber case. Justice Department sources say, however,
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  Speaker 2: Kazensky has not been charged thus far. Kazenski was at
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  Speaker 2: the residence when agents arrived earlier today and reportedly had
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  Speaker 2: little reaction when they said, simply ted, we'd like to.
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  Speaker 3: Have a talk.
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  Speaker 2: Kazinski, seen here in a nineteen sixty two Harvard University yearbook,
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  Speaker 2: is a native of Chicago. He graduated from Harvard with
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  Speaker 2: a degree in mathematics, and later was an acting assistant
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  Speaker 2: professor of mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley,
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  Speaker 2: before quitting in nineteen sixty nine, saying he was tired
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  Speaker 2: of teaching. FBI agents entered Kazinski's home two miles outside Lincoln,
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  Speaker 2: Montana today, armed only with a search warrant, looking specifically
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  Speaker 2: for manufacturing tools and a typewriter closely identified with the
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  Speaker 2: Unibamer's work. Over the past seventeen years, the Unibamber is
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  Speaker 2: believed to have mailed or planted a total of sixteen
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  Speaker 2: explosive devices, killing three people and injuring twenty three. The
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  Speaker 2: first tip in the case came from Chicago from Kazinski's
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  Speaker 2: own family through a Washington attorney. A brother told the
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  Speaker 2: FBI he had uncovered evidence suggesting his sibling might be
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  Speaker 2: a suspect. Authorities then went to the family home outside Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: where they recovered printed material and other evidence implicating Kazinski.
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  Speaker 2: Agents have been closely watching the suspect's Montana residents for
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  Speaker 2: several weeks. Sources described Kazinsky as a frequent visitor to
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  Speaker 2: the Lincoln, Montana Library, but otherwise a loner. Agents spent
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  Speaker 2: several hours searching the cabin Today, sources tell CBS News
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  Speaker 2: they are especially looking for evidence that would document Kazinski's
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  Speaker 2: whereabouts during the years he wasn't in school or teaching.
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  Speaker 2: That is deemed especially important because sources say agents have
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  Speaker 2: not been able so far to definitively place him, I
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  Speaker 2: should say, in a position to have delivered at least
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  Speaker 2: two of the bombs. They hope to find all that
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  Speaker 2: in the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, thanks Jim Now. Following the unibomber investigation in Montana
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  Speaker 1: tonight is cbsdu's correspondent Randall Pinkston.
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  Speaker 3: Lincoln is about seventy miles northwest of Helena, the state
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  Speaker 3: capital of Montana. That's where FBI agents began gathering several
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago to close in on the unibomber. At the
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  Speaker 3: FBI command post in Lincoln, agents weren't talking about the
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  Speaker 3: long awaited capture of the infamous suspect, but CBS News
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  Speaker 3: has learned that the agency conducted a meticulous, high tech
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  Speaker 3: investigation cloaked in. Security agents kept him under surveillance on
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  Speaker 3: the ground, and he was being watched from the sky
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  Speaker 3: as well with satellites, and there were electronic sensors to
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  Speaker 3: pick up conversations. The unibombers expected to be arraigned here
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  Speaker 3: at the Federal Courthouse in Helena and held at the
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  Speaker 3: county jail. Randall Pinkston, CBS News, Helena, Montana.
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  Speaker 1: We believe this is a good time to remind you
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  Speaker 1: of the unibamber's long record of terror, which began eighteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Next month, when a bomb injured a security
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  Speaker 1: guard at Northwestern University. The unbomber would strike fifteen more times.
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  Speaker 1: As Anthony Mason reports.
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  Speaker 4: The nineteen eighty two mail bomb attack in Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 4: was typical. The package was addressed to Vanderbilt University computer
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  Speaker 4: science professor Patrick Fisher.
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  Speaker 2: You can see here the force of the explosion.
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  Speaker 4: It exploded in the hands of his secretary, Janet's myth.
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  Speaker 4: Still afraid to show his face. Three years ago, Fisher
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  Speaker 4: speculated on his.
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  Speaker 2: Attacks, this person does not like computers, genetics, and certain
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  Speaker 2: areas of medicine.
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  Speaker 4: And this person does not like airplanes. Agents said his
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  Speaker 4: work was distinctive.
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  Speaker 2: He makes every switch, he makes every moving part himself.
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  Speaker 4: In nineteen eighty five, grad student John Hawser picked up
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  Speaker 4: a booby trapped notebook.
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  Speaker 2: Zach you know it exploded.
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  Speaker 4: The blast in the computer room of the University of
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  Speaker 4: California at Berkeley blew his fingers off.
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  Speaker 2: I have no feeling on half of my hand.
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  Speaker 4: But the bomber left few clues until a nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 4: seven attack on a Salt Lake City computer store.
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  Speaker 2: Someone saw him one of the ladies and alice that
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  Speaker 2: he placed a block of wood. It looked like two two.
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  Speaker 1: By fours with a neil sticking out of it.
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  Speaker 4: This sketch is still the FBI's only eyewitnessed description of
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  Speaker 4: the elusive bomber. But then after that eleventh bombing, he
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  Speaker 4: suddenly stopped. Agents speculated he'd become frightened. For sixty years,
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  Speaker 4: there was no sign of him until June nineteen ninety three,
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  Speaker 4: when doctor Charles Epstein, a geneticist at the University of
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  Speaker 4: California in San Francisco, received.
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  Speaker 1: A package that looked like this.
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  Speaker 4: It blew up in doctor Epstein's hands. New Jersey ad
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  Speaker 4: executive Thomas Moser was killed by a mail bomb in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety four. Timber industry executive Gilbert Murray was murdered
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  Speaker 4: last year.
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  Speaker 1: He is very good at what he does.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Then suddenly last summer, the unibomber spoke out. In
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  Speaker 4: a thirty five thousand word manifesto, he railed against technological
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  Speaker 4: progress in seventeen years. It was the most he'd revealed
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  Speaker 4: of himself, and the FBI's most promising lead perhaps until now.
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Mason, CBS News, New York