Astronaut john hauser is nearly killed when he picks up a parcel left in a computer room on the uc- uc-berkeley campus. and exploded. blew my arm off to the side hike this and the first thing i thought was, why did they do that? reporter: six months later, a package mailed to the home of a university of michigan psychology professor explodes when research assistant nicholas sawino opens it. sawino sustains burns and shrapnel wounds. the professor suffers some hearing loss. one month later, on december 11th, 1985, the unabomber claims his first fatality with his 11th bomb. computer rental store owner hugh scrutton is killed when he picks up what appears to be a piece of scrap wood. metal shrapnel penetrates his heart, and tears off his right hand.