ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, June 19, 1996 TAG: 9606190062
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: SACRAMENTO, CALIF.
SOURCE: Associated Press
NOTE: Below
Federal prosecutors charged Theodore Kaczynski in four of the bloodiest Unabomber attacks Tuesday in an indictment calculated to bring the death penalty for the math professor-turned-hermit.
A federal grand jury charged Kaczynski in two fatal bombings in Sacramento in 1985 and 1995 and two attacks that maimed scientists at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993.
Both Sacramento attacks are covered by the new federal death penalty, the Justice Department said.
The indictment marks the first time Kaczynski has been charged in the 18-year campaign of terror aimed at smashing the modern industrial order. Since his arrest April 3, Kaczynski, 54, has been held in a Montana jail, charged only with possessing bomb-making material.
The Justice Department said it will ask that those charges be temporarily dismissed so he can be brought quickly to Sacramento for arraignment.
The Unabomber's 16 attacks killed three people and injured 23. Prosecutors had said they would seek to indict Kaczynski in either Northern California or New Jersey, because the fatal attacks in those states would be subject to the federal death penalty law enacted in 1994.
The 10-count indictment identifies Kaczynski as ``FC,'' the initials the Unabomber used to sign his letters and diatribes. He claimed the initials stood for an underground organization called the Freedom Club. FBI agents discount the existence of any organization, however, saying the Unabomber was a loner.
The indictment charges Kaczynski in the first fatal Unabomber attack - a 1985 blast in which a package left in the parking lot of a Sacramento computer rental store exploded, killing store owner Hugh Scrutton. Another count covers the last fatal Unabomber attack, which killed timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray in April 1995.
Kaczynski also is charged with attacks that seriously injured Dr. Charles Epstein of the University of California at San Francisco, who lost several fingers in a June 1993 bombing, and Yale computer expert David Gelernter, who suffered injuries to his hands, face and chest in an attack two days later.
The indictment also charges Kaczynski with transporting, mailing and using bombs.
Federal authorities refused to comment on the indictment beyond a terse statement released by Attorney General Janet Reno, who said it capped an 18-year investigation.
Still under investigation is the bombing that killed advertising executive Thomas Mosser in his North Caldwell, N.J., home in December 1994, Reno said.
On the day of Kaczynski's indictment, a Berkeley, Calif., publisher that turned his manifesto into a best-selling paperback announced that he would receive the first royalties - $1,207.40.
Jolly Roger Press has sold more than 12,000 copies of the 90-page treatise, which is available nationwide through major distributors.
``We have an ethical obligation to pay royalties to our authors, whoever they may be,'' Jolly Roger owner Kristan Lawson said.
``Up until now, we had no idea who wrote `The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future,' our most popular title. But recent events have cleared up matters substantially. I'd like to thank the FBI for locating my author.''
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