Special Report: A Question of Competency Trial Transcripts The Unabomber: A Chronology Documents from the Case Reports from Court TV & American Lawyer Media The Players The Bombings The Counts Against Kaczynski The Unabomber's Manifesto Building the Unabombs The Players Diogenes Angelakos Judge Garland Burrell Judy Clarke Robert Cleary Kevin Clymo Buckley Crist Quin Denvir Charles Epstein Patrick C. Fischer David Gelernter Michael Getler Bob Guccione John G. Harris John Hauser Warren Hoge Sally Johnson David Kaczynski Theodore Kaczynski Theodore Kaczynski, Sr. Wanda Kaczynski James McConnell Thomas Mosser Gilbert Murray Jerry Roberts Richard J. Roberts Hugh Scrutton Tony Serra Phillip A. Sharp Janet Smith Nick Suino Tom Tyler Percy Wood Gary Wright Diogenes Angelakos The Berkeley engineering professor was hurt in a 1982 explosion in Cory Hall at Berkeley by a bomb disguised as a piece of engineering equipment. Three years later, he was across the hall when a bomb injured student John Hauser. He came to Hauser's aid and tied a tourniquet with his tie. Garland Burrell This 48-year-old U.S. District Judge presiding over the Sacramento trial against Kaczynski received the case after two other circuit judges, Lawrence Karlton and Edward Garcia, recused themselves. Burrell, the first black federal judge in Sacramento, has been on the bench since his appointment in 1992 and has a strong record in the public sector, but negligible experience with criminal cases. Much of his career was spent at the Sacramento U.S. Attorney's office, in addition to work as a deputy city attorney there. A Los Angeles native, Burrell has a degree in social work in addition to his law degree, and began his law career at the Sacramento district attorney's office in 1976, his only experience with criminal law until his appointment. Judy Clarke The head of the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho and Kaczynski's co-counsel along with Quin Denvir. She is also the immediate past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and in 1995, she went to her home state of South Carolina to defend and successfully save the life of Susan Smith, who was convicted of drowing her children. Robert Cleary The lead prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's office in the case against Kaczynski comes not from Sacramento but from the New Jersey, where the office run by U.S. Attorney Faith Hochberg put together a separate indictment against the alleged Unabomber which will presumably go to trial after the Sacramento trial is over. Hochberg recruited Cleary, 41, in 1994 from the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, where he focused on white-collar cases. Cleary graduated from Fordham Law School in 1980 and returned there in 1991 as an adjunct professor. Hochberg has called Cleary her "most-senior advisor." Kevin Clymo This Sacramento criminal defense lawyer was brought in by Judge Garland Burrell to mediate between Kaczynski and his defense team after he balked at their representing him just before opening arguments in his trial were set to begin. On January 8, as the judge tentatively agreed to let Kaczynski defend himself, he appointed Clymo to represent the defendant on the issue of competency. Buckley Crist Professor at Northwestern University who was the addressee of a package which turns out to be a bomb. This 1978 incident was the first occurance of a bomb attributed to the Unabomber. Quin Denvir Denvir was on the job as the chief Federal Public Defender in Sacramento only three weeks when he was handed Ted Kaczynski as a client. In charge of the 21-lawyer Sacramento defender's office, the 57-year-old former appellate lawyer once served in the California capitol as the state public defender, from 1978 to 1984. His father was a trial lawyer and once advised his son to get experience with trials. Charles Epstein University of California geneticist injured by a mail bomb attributed to the Unabomber at his home in northern California in 1993. Patrick C. Fischer Professor at Vanderbilt University who was the addressee of a 1982 bomb that injured his secretary, Janet Smith. Fischer was in Puerto Rico lecturing at the time of the attack. David Gelernter Yale computer science professor and author who was injured in a mail attack by the Unabomber in 1993. He has since written a book about the experience, "Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber." Michael Getler Deputy managing editor of the Washington Post who received a 1995 letter from "FC" requesting publication of the Unabomber's manifesto, which was enclosed with the letter. Bob Guccione Publisher of Penthouse magazine. Extended an offer to publish the Unabomber's manifesto and received a response indicating a preference by the author to publish in a more "respectable" publication. John G. Harris In 1979, this Northwestern University graduate student was injured by a bomb placed inside a cigar box which he found in a lounge at Northwestern. John Hauser Berkeley graduate student who lost part of his vision and part of his hand in a 1985 Unabomber attack in Cory Hall at Berkeley, the site of a 1982 attack. Warren Hoge Assistant managing editor and London bureau chief of the New York Times. Before his assignment in London, he received numerous letters from "FC" as well as a copy of the Unabomber's manifesto, and was named by the letters' author as an authenticating contact for several other recipients of letters from "FC". Sally Johnson Resident psychiatrist at the federal correctional facility in Butner, NC. Dr. Johnson was selected by Judge Garland Burrell on January 9, 1998 to come to Sacramento and conduct competency tests on Kaczynski in order to determine if he was able to stand trial. She performed similar tests on evangelist Jim Bakker and attempted presidential assassin John Hinckley, and found both competent to stand trial. David Kaczynski Brother of defendant Theodore Kaczynski and the one who suggested to the FBI that Ted might be the Unabomber, 47-year-old David has repeatedly made appeals to spare his brother's life. For many years, David remained the only link between Ted and the rest of the family, and it was David who delivered to Ted the news of their father's suicide in 1990 in a letter with a red line under the postage stamp to indicate its urgency according to a clandestine code set up between the two brothers. He also lived an isolated, rural life for several years beginning in 1983 in a cabin in Texas' Chalk Mountains before moving to Schenectady, New York in 1989, where he married an old girlfriend. Theodore Kaczynski The former Berkeley math professor accused of perpetrating one of the worst series of serial bombings ever in the United States. Kaczynski, 55 and Harvard educated, spent most of the past twenty-six years living in a rural cabin in Lincoln, Montana. When federal authorities arrested him there in April of 1996, they found a mountain of writings and letters, as well as bomb-making components. His defense team plans to argue that he is mentally ill, presumably a paranoid schizophrenic. He was turned into the FBI by his brother, David, who contacted authorities after he read the Unabomber's lengthy manifesto and noticed similarities between the text and his brother Ted's writings. Theodore Kaczynski, Sr. Father of Theodore and David Kaczynski, he was an engineer at heart but worked in a sausage plant in Chicago and ran a foam packaging plant in Iowa -- the latter being an industry both his sons would join briefly in the late 1970s. He also took the boys camping and teach them survival skills, which presumably came to be useful to Ted when he took up his isolated life in a sparse Montana cabin without electricity or plumbing. In October of 1990, Ted Sr. -- dying of cancer -- shot and killed himself in his house near Chicago. Wanda Kaczynski Mother of Theodore and David Kaczynski. She used to read Scientific American to her young son Teddy on the porch of their suburban Chicago home, but Ted's feelings turned to rage in the 1980s in a series of vitriolic letters he wrote her, blaming her for his social isolation and other problems. She spent time during the 1970s as a high-school teacher, but quit out of frustration. James McConnell Psychology professor at University of Michigan. Injured in letter bomb attack in 1985 when he opened a package that included a letter requesting that McConnell review an enclosed manuscript. Thomas Mosser New Jersey advertising executive, killed in a UNABOM attack at his home in 1994. Gilbert Murray President of the California Forestry Association, killed in a 1995 Unabomber attack at his office in Sacramento. Jerry Roberts Editorial page editor of the San Francisco Examiner who received a 1995 letter from "FC" threatening to blow up an airplane flying out of Los Angeles. Richard J. Roberts Recipient of 1995 letter almost identical to that sent to MIT biologist Phillip Sharp. Hugh Scrutton Owner of Rentech, a Sacramento computer store. Killed in a bomb attack behind his store in 1985. Tony Serra This flamboyant 63-year old San Francisco defense lawyer offered to defend Kaczynski pro bono and create a defense based on the former math professor's anti-technological views and not his mental state. The offer, while accepted by Kaczynski, was rejected by Judge Garland Burrell. Phillip A. Sharp MIT biology professor. Recipient of 1995 letter from "FC". Janet Smith Secretary at Vanderbilt University injured in Unabomber attack in 1982 addressed to her boss, Professor Patrick Fischer, but presumed to have been intended for a Brigham Young professor. Nick Suino Assistant to University of Michigan professor James McConnell who was hurt on his arm and midsection by a 1985 bomb that also injured McConnell. Tom Tyler Social psychologist at the University of California who received a 1995 letter from "FC" asking Tyler several questions about society and technology. Percy Wood Former president of United Airlines. Injured by a 1980 package bomb at his home in suburban Chicago. The bomb was disguised as the book, "Ice Brothers." Gary Wright Vice-president of CAAMS, Inc., a Salt Lake City computer firm. Wright was wounded by a bomb in the parking lot behind his office in a 1987 Unabomber attack.

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