Editor s note
This story is part of a three-day series on the 25th anniversary of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski s arrest in Lincoln on April 3, 1996.Â
It was a typical day at the Independent Record 25 years ago today, when the newsroom began getting questions about a Unabomber suspect by the name of Theodore Kaczynski.
âWe started getting these weird calls: âWhat do you know about this guy in Lincoln?ââ said David Shors, who was associate editor at the time.
Although skeptical that the infamous Unabomber whose mailed bombs killed three people and injured 24 others had been living just 60 miles north of town, a reporter and a photographer headed that way to see if they could figure out what all the fuss was about.