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The Maths Professor aka “Unabomber” Whose Search Was FBI’s Most Expensive Manhunt
Ted Kaczynski’s journey from boy genius to mad scientist.
The thing with exceptionally brilliant minds is that they need to be channeled into the right direction because if they aren’t, the consequences can be dire.
Ted Kaczynski was one such child prodigy whose brilliant mind resulted in him going off the rails and causing mass destruction in the United States of America. So much so that he would become the longest and most expensive manhunt in FBI’s history at the time.
Background and Childhood Brilliance
Ted Kaczynski was born in Chicago in 1942, to Polish American parents. Ted was a happy child until his smartness became the cause of his loneliness and potentially a huge factor in how his mind developed in the impressionable years of childhood.
Ted was always a brilliant child, but he was social and fun until the time he tested an exceptionally high 167 on an IQ test, and as a result, was able to skip the sixth standard at school.
However, this fast-track path in schooling did him more harm than good. He joined older kids in seventh grade and was never able to mix in leading him to be bullied constantly and becoming…
