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Joel: In 1993, the Unabomber reappears.

He's been gone a long time,

and he wants to make sure

that everyone realizes he's back.

Newsreader: And the FBI says that a letter bomb

was mailed to the home

of one this country's foremost geneticists.

He is in critical condition tonight in Northern California.

It's a rather large shock.

People had gotten used to the idea

that the Unabomber would never be heard from again.

And all of a sudden,

he's not just back, but he is back in a big way.

Newsreader: Dr. Epstein, a genetics researcher

at the University of California San Francisco,

has made advances in the study of Down's Syndrome.

And who could blame him?

He lost his eardrums and fingers to this guy

just because he was doing his job,

trying to help humanity.

Newsreader: Investigators say they found no link

between the attack and Epstein's work.

As a reporter, I talked to Epstein,

and Dr. Epstein, in particular,

was mad till the day he died,

and I don't blame him one tiny bit.

Newsreader: The letter bomb went off at 8:30 this morning

at Yale's computer science center.

38-year-old associate professor David Gelernter

was opening his mail in his fifth-floor office

when the letter bomb exploded.

So now you have two devices,

one goes to a geneticist,

the other goes to a computer science professor

at Yale University.

The historical significance of the case

is not lost on people.

There's been nothing like this

in FBI history.

Newsreader: The two attacks this week

have raised fears that a serial bomber

blamed for a dozen explosions in the late '70s and '80s

may be back at work.

Overnight, the decision is made

to reinvigorate the investigation

by putting a lot of resources into it.

They're getting thousands of tips.

Nut cases, kinda nut cases,

people you take somewhat seriously,

and then ones who think, "Wow, maybe you got a point."

It's exhausting.

We're taking in so much information,

what if something gets past us?

That was the fear we live, we live with all the time;

that the answer has come to us

and we've passed it by.

* Man, now what has been done *

* Man can't stand himself *

* Or where he's told that he belong *

* Man don't understand *

* Man blames everyone *

* Everyone under the sun *

* Tell me what has Man become *

* Man can't help himself *

* Don't know where he can run *

* Man can't run for help *

* Can't stand anybody else *

* Man don't know where he's from *

* Don't know where he belong *

* Now would Man trade tomorrow *

* For a time long forgotten *

Ted: No. It was simply anger and revenge

and I was... was going to strike back.

Try not to get blown up.

* Man don't understand *

* What has man become *

Newsreader: Local, State, and Federal investigators

continue to work around the clock

collecting evidence from the blast.

FBI Agent: I would imagine it would be

a relatively quick determination from residue

that we can tell what kind of explosive was involved.

He's now using a chlorate mixture that he's created

which no longer requires a pipe

to contain it.

So, it explodes on its own once it's initiated.

We have an announcement

of a piece of evidence in the case

which has never been made public before.

The New York Times receives a letter

from the Unabomber.

Rather short -it's a double spaced paragraph,

not a lot of words -

claiming credit for these bombings.

Investigators at the time have hopes

that it will provide some clues.

So, you have the typeface,

what kind of typewriter wrote this?

Where did the paper come from? Can you figure that out?

Is the paper significant in some way?

Where it was mailed? The type of stamps?

Is there any DNA under the flap of the envelope?

Are there any fingerprints on the paper

or on the envelope?

None of that, there's none of that.

There's no good forensic evidence.

What there is, on this letter, is indented writing.

The sort of impressions

which are created by writing on a surface

with a piece of paper under that surface,

so you've left no ink marks or pencil marks,

but you've left an indentation.

"Call Nathan R. Wednesday, 7pm."

This is taken by the investigators

as a mistake that the Unabomber has made.

Finally, he has made a mistake.

If any members of the public

know a Nathan R.

Or have any idea as to who that person might be

and in what context,

that information would be of critical importance for us.

We were looking for Nathan R.'s everywhere.

It was crazy.

All the task force has to do

is find every single one of them,

and one of them will know who the Unabomber is.

Because he's going to receive a phone call,

on Wednesday at 7pm.

How hard can this be, right?

Well, it's tremendously hard.

Um...

there are a lot of people named Nathan R.

So, you go calling and, you know,

you've chased down 15 different ways

of getting to a Nathan R.

Finally, you knock on the door and the guy says,

you know, "Who are you? I don't care. Get lost."

It's... there's a lot of that

when you're doing a story like this.

Every Nathan R. That they could find,

and there are thousands of them.

We had them all interviewed to ask these questions.

It didn't lead to a solution.

There's a sense that he's fooling them.

He's eluding them.

He's toying with them and taunting them.

The pressure that the task force is under

is increased by these taunts.

Right over there was Ted's 10 by 12 cabin.

Again, very rustic, very simple,

just wood cabin, no electricity,

no running water,

uh, with a green roof.

It's a bit haunting, every time I come back here.

I've never felt peaceful.

I mean, we're surrounded by beautiful trees,

and the birds are chirping,

but I have never, I would never use that word

to describe how I feel in this spot.

Not... not peaceful.

You know, a lot of people

that have perpetrated a single murder,

uh, regret it for the rest of their life

and-and will never kill again.

What makes the serial killer so particularly fascinating

is they've gone through the trauma of killing someone

and are addicted to it

and are ready to do it again and again and again.

The investigators are picking up

that this is an anarchist

who doesn't like environmental decimation,

doesn't like people who-who shill

for anti-environmentalist causes.

Newsreader: Investigators say it was a package

sent through the mail

about the size of a home video cassette.

It killed 50-year-old Thomas Mosser,

a senior advertising executive

at one of the largest ad agencies in the world.

He opens it in his kitchen,

where his wife and young daughter had been

standing next to him just moments before,

uh, and he's killed instantly

by the very significant blast at this point.

We are all today determined

to end the death and destruction

that these random bombings have wrought.

The pressure to solve it is immense.

Desperate is perhaps a...

a fair word at that point.

Unabomb hotline.

Newsreader: So far thousands of tips

phoned into the San Francisco Unabomb Taskforce

have led nowhere.

And a one-million-dollar reward hasn't helped either.

The phones are ringing constantly.

We are getting thousands of calls from the public.

David: We don't watch TV much.

Um, the first time I ever heard the term "Unabomber"

was in December of 1994,

when the front page of our newspaper

said that the Unabomber, whoever that was,

had struck again and killed an advertising executive

by the name of Thomas Mosser in New Jersey.

But I'd never heard the term before.

Ted came down here once, didn't he?

No. -He never came here.

No, I remember him once planning to come.

He even told me he had a bus ticket

and that he was going to arrive on a certain day,

and then he decided not to come,

and he said he had too much to do.

And of course, I'm thinking, too much to do?

I mean, come on, Ted.

What do you have to do?

And of course, at that time,

I didn't know how...

what he meant.

He and I had never met.

I have still never met him.

I have never, as far as I know,

talked to him over the phone or anything like that.

He didn't like me.

He didn't want David to marry me.

He was really furious, I guess, about the wedding

and, of course, he didn't come.

And he wrote a letter that was very...

very aggressive.

Oh, it was really awful.

I had never met the guy

and nobody could understand why Ted was threatening

to break connection with Dave.

Every time David and his mother got together,

they sat there for hours

talking about Ted.

His mother was very worried about it

because Ted had cut relationships to his mother.

So that's how I began to pick up the sense

that he was... unusual,

and perhaps mentally...

you know, different.

Linda was the first one to tell me.

Reading some of my brother's letters,

hearing family conversation,

she says, "David, your brother's mentally ill,

you know that, don't you?"

And I said, "Wait a second, you don't really understand him.

He's a genius, he's different.

He's ba-blah-blah..."

"David, look at this, people who are healthy

in their minds don't think like this."

His basic argument is that technology is a system

that we really cannot control.

It's causing harm to people

and the environment.

The stresses will increase on humans and on nature,

and there's no way to modify or to reform the system

so as to avoid these negative outcomes.

His conclusion is the system has to be brought to an end.

We have to have a kind of revolution against the system,

and to stop it before it can uh...

lead to these catastrophic outcomes.

In 1995, the Unabomber sends another letter

to the New York Times.

It's three pages of single spaced typewriting.

It takes credit

for the bombing of Thomas Mosser,

and he is indicating

that this will continue "unless".

There's now a, a deal that's being offered.

Newsreader: The bomber says he'll desist

from terrorist activities

only if major publications print a manuscript

advocating the destruction

of the worldwide industrial system.

He says the written document that he wants published

will be coming forth shortly.

Newsreader: The so-called Unabomber has now spoken out

and taunted the FBI, calling it a joke.

In the letter he refers to the FBI as a joke.

This is somewhat echoing sentiments

that are coming from political

and media and public circles.

He apparently has jumped on that bandwagon as well.

Newsreader: The mysterious Unabomber is claiming

to be part of a group,

quote "The FBI has tried to portray these bombings

as the work of an isolated nut.

We won't waste our time arguing about whether we are nuts,

but we certainly are not isolated."

He claims to be a group called "FC"

and he's always very clear

to make sure that his bombs contain FC

somewhere in there where the FC will be found

stamped onto a piece of metal,

or etched onto a piece of metal,

in other words, intended to survive.

The Unabomber suggested that part of his motivation

had to do with concerns about the environment

to try to portray himself as, perhaps,

some sort of environmental crusader.

Around the same time, there were environmental groups

which advocated radical solutions

to their concerns.

So, it was somewhat of a logical extension

that he get the task force to consider

that perhaps he was associated with groups like that.

Because there was always this idea of FC

and the Freedom Club,

I think that the Feds believed

that there were more people involved

than Kaczynski himself.

And so, they were really interested

in letting me in there

and letting us talk freely

so that they could gauge whether or not

Kaczynski was connected in any way

to any of us in Earth First!

Earth First! has been an organization,

from its beginning,

that has been dedicated to action.

Everything from, you know, tree sitting,

and other types of monkeywrenching,

and had been under suspicion

of being tied to radical environmental terrorism.

Yeah, the '90s was a trip.

Soon had this slow progression of radicalism.

And for me, I noticed it up at a...

the mountains east of town,

and the Earth Firsters were trying to protect

this forest up there, which they did.

And these Earth Firsters created a, a blockade

to prevent loggers from coming in,

and they won.

Newsreader: In the eyes of the forest service,

this is destruction of government property,

a federal offence,

and some critics are even calling these protesters

domestic terrorists.

Man: Don't move your truck! Shut your truck off, man!

Woman: There's an old woman, she's 80 years old!

80-years-old woman locked to the back of your truck

and you're gonna kill her. Man: He's not turning it off!

He knows someone's locked under!

And then when Ted came along, or the Unabomber,

and started, you know, killing people that were responsible

for some of this kind of behavior

that these kids didn't like,

I think they found somebody

that they could respect a little bit

and could understand why he was doing it.

Protestors: * This land is my land *

* This land is your land *

Newsreader: The FBI is investigating

whether the Unabomber used this so-called ecological hitlist

to select some of his recent victims.

The list published in 1990 in an underground newsletter

is made up of 11 companies and organizations

that the publisher of the paper

apparently considered enemies of the environment.

People in the anarchist community,

they're liking the philosophy

that they're seeing reflected in this.

Killing innocent people walking down lonely roads,

that's one thing.

Killing people with a political, philosophical bent,

this had resonance.

Operator: Attention all units!

Newsreader: 20 minutes after 2,

the calm of this sunny day in downtown Sacramento

is shattered...

Joel: It's a terrible, terrible bombing scene.

Woman: Let me take you somewhere.

It's hard to describe, really, the effects

that such a thing has on a, a person,

but it was, it was really awful.

Um...

Uh, I'll reserve saying anymore for the sake of the victim

and the victim's families, but...

Newsreader: Gilbert Murray, the president

of the California Forestry Association,

is the third person to be killed by the Unabomber.

It's the Unabomber.

It's creepy and it's current

and it's from a killer who has not been caught

for more than a decade.

Another kind of terror - mailbombs.

Officials are warning everyone to be on guard.

The most wanted criminal in America

is still the Unabomber.

You have to wonder, "Am I next?"

Is he gonna send a, you know, a pipe bomb to the Chronicle

because we're reflecting technology

and capitalism,

and big business?

I'm feeling every package.

Every parcel that comes in,

you check for wires,

you check for a little bit of oil.

You smell it.

Has it got a little gunpowder smell to it?

You press down on it.

Has it got uneven lumps

that could be the match-head igniters?

Could be explosive loads.

You're very careful about packages like that.

The newsroom gets a letter from the Unabomber

saying that he's going to blow up an airliner

in L.A.

So, we take this thing into the editorial office,

everyone looks at it.

We're wondering what this next step is.

Do you print this stuff?

Are you going to be uh...

an ad paper for a killer?

We call the FBI.

They come over. They look at it.

It's pretty quickly determined that it's the real thing.

Further examination has confirmed

that this letter originates from the Unabomber subject.

So, do you take him seriously

or do you blow it off?

We decided to print.

There was a suggestion by the postal service

to simply not carry packages anymore.

They weren't willing to put them in airplanes.

And that added tremendously

to the already unbelievable amount of pressure

on the task force

to solve this case.

You can't have the mail in the United States

come to a halt.

It's almost inconceivable.

Newsreader: Los Angeles International Airport

is under full alert

with security measures not seen since the Gulf War.

And it turns out the guy wasn't serious.

And so, after the 4th of July weekend comes and goes

and no one's killed, nothing blows up,

the dogs get called off

and it goes back to Unabomber normal.

Everybody in the United States, it seems,

and probably many other countries,

is aware of and interested in the Unabomber

and what comes next in this story.

In the summer of 1995,

almost every day or every other day,

there was a little article describing the Unabomber

and what his interests were,

and these different theories about what we should do.

We don't want, you know, any kind of technology,

We don't want all of this.

We have to go back to the natural way of life,

you know, without machines

and without phones and all of that.

It was churning up in my head quite a bit.

And I thought, gosh, that sounds like Dave's brother.

I look at her and she, she didn't look quite happy,

and I said, "Something wrong?"

And, for a while, I was going to hold off,

but then I did broach the topic.

And she said, "David,

I think it might be your brother."

And, you know, my immediate reaction was,

Oh, well, I know it's not my brother,

so thank goodness it's... you know,

thank goodness it's just a worry you have,

not something real."

David just couldn't believe it.

He just thought I was being stupid, I guess,

or crazy or something.

I mean, she really, it was more of an intuition,

I thought, than anything. Nothing like evidence.

He didn't want to believe it.

And I guess that's the way um...

family members might be, that they don't...

they don't want to believe that about their family member.

These are type-written copies,

typed on the same typewriter

that's been used on most of the other Unabomb communications.

Which we have figured out, forensically,

is a very old L.C. Smith Corona

manual typewriter.

He sends as many copies of the manifesto

as can be banged out

using carbon paper,

on a manual typewriter.

Five copies go out to various locations.

We get a copy of the Manifesto ourselves

and I read this thing word for word.

We realize the guy's smart.

He's not a great writer,

but he's a very competent academic writer,

and we now have the dilemma before us

about whether we should print this manifesto or not.

Do we want to piss off the author?

Do we want to serve the greater good of journalism?

Do we want to suppress it

because it's incitive stuff

that can rile up anarchists into action?

Or just be smart stuff

that informs the public?

The leadership of the task force

was given the assignment

by the FBI Director and the Attorney General,

Director Freeh and Director Reno,

to debate this question

and come back with a recommendation.

Within the bureau there was a thought that,

you know, are we capitulating to a bomber,

a terrorist,

by publishing his manifesto?

I'll call it a somewhat furious debate over this,

and everybody was not on the same side initially.

And the decision was made

that we shouldn't publish it.

The meeting breaks up,

one of us looked at everybody else and said,

"That was the wrong decision, wasn't it?"

And everybody else in there said, "Yes,

that was the wrong decision."

And the primary argument was,

if it gets published,

a document of that size, seen by enough people,

it's almost impossible

that someone will not recognize the author.

Either because of the way he writes,

or because of his message.

We figure, "This is for the greater good."

You put out the clues and, as a newspaper,

we are all about being for the greater good.

So, in conjunction with the local FBI office,

we printed the Manifesto.

Newsreader: It was behind the business pages,

tucked in between the want ads, but it was all there today,

all 35.000 words of the Unabomber's message to America.

We print the thing and we get...

zillions of responses at the time.

I think that copy of the paper sold fairly well,

which, you know, you don't wanna make money on horror,

but the fact that it sold well

meant that a lot of people were reading it

and that was good. You want people to pick, pick it over.

I remember my first thought

was that the Unabomber had won, at this point.

When the whole thing was published,

I thought, well, that's it, he won.

He defeated the federal government and the FBI

because he got this thing published.

This is the original copy

of the Unabomber Manifesto.

I kept it never knowing that I would meet the author.

It's huge, it's an amazing document.

Like the opening sentence,

"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences

have been a disaster for the human race."

"They've destabilized society,

have made life unfulfilling,

have subjected human beings to indignities,

have led to widespread psychological suffering

and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world."

"Science marches on blindly

without regard to the welfare of the human race."

"The system cannot be reformed in such a way

as to reconcile freedom with technology.

The only way out is to dispense with

the industrial technological system altogether."

"It would be better

to dump the whole stinking system

and take the consequences."

"We therefore advocate a revolution

against the industrial system."

You could take any aspect of the technological system

and it's hard to argue against any one aspect.

You could say, what's wrong with a phone?

What's wrong with an email?

What's wrong with a digital camera or something?

But if you take someone like Kaczynski,

he looks at the ensemble, the whole system and he says,

well, look what the system is doing to us.

It's drawing people in, they're getting addicted.

Mental stress is increasing, mental illness is increasing,

physical health is decreasing,

environmental destruction is accelerating.

This is a consequence of the whole technological system.

It's not any one technology.

So, my cell phone isn't destroying

the-the global ecosystem. No, it's not the cell phone,

but it's the whole network that goes to having and creating

and using a cellphone on a mass basis.

That's what's destroying the global ecosystem

and that's what's causing human stress.

When friends of mine discovered

that I hadn't even read it yet, they go,

"You're gonna love it, read it! You're an idiot. Come on."

And I did. Uh, there wasn't anything I disagreed with,

actually, and I still, uh, advocate it.

I think it's just an amazingly important document

now more than ever.

"In order to get our message before the public

with some chance of making a lasting impression,

we've had to kill people."

He comes right out and says it.

Newsreader: The Justice Department hopes

to use his own words to lead investigators

to one of the most hunted men in the country.

I'm sure there will be a lot of people

in the academic community

that will read this and will say,

"Well, that sounds just like..."

and they'll flash back to a student

or a professor that they have worked with.

It did ultimately lead to...

literally thousands of people

that thought that they might know who the Unabomber was.

This was getting to be about mid-October.

David promised

that when the Unabomber manifesto was published,

that he would go out and get it.

He promised that to me.

But apparently there were only 6 copies being sold

at this newspaper shop

and they had already gone very quickly.

The college library had the issue

but somebody had taken the manifesto out of it

so it wasn't there. And I'm, I'm ready

to throw up both of my hands and then she...

and then she says, "The internet!"

Now, I had hardly heard of the internet.

We didn't have it at home,

but they had it at the college library.

Linda's sitting next to me,

and, first of all, it's kind of weird.

Here I am on this new-fangled technology,

trying to figure out if my brother

is the anti-technology terrorist.

You know, I felt almost, like, guilty about doing that.

He was looking at the screen

and I was looking at his cheek

and his jaw dropped

when he read the first few lines

of the Unabomber manifesto.

Linda kind of whispered, "David, what do you think?

Do you think it could be Ted?"

And I said, "I have to admit,

some parts of it really do sound like him.

If I had to, if I had to guess,

maybe there's one chance in a thousand he wrote it."

And I was expecting,

well, maybe that would be reassuring to her.

But she said, "David, one chance in a thousand?

That's not nothing."

I started to try and talk Dave

into getting an expert

in analyzing the comparison between Ted's letters

and the Unabomber manifesto.

That, that perhaps there's a pattern

because it's the same author.

So, I suggested Susan Swanson,

who I knew was a private investigator

and had connections with this kind of thing.

I've known Linda since we were toddlers.

It was Linda who cracked the Unabomber case.

She was the only one who suspected,

just by reading his letters, that he might be violent.

And I tried to look

to see if there were any similarities

and, after a while,

there were times when I thought

they really could've been written by the same person.

"I've got to know that every last tie

joining me to this stinking family

has been cut forever."

"It would be better

to dump the whole stinking system

and take the consequences."

I thought it was hard to tell the difference between the two.

It kind of flowed,

it had, you know, um...

the same tone.

So, I went to work researching the Unabomber case,

taking into account other things Ted had

that were in common with the Unabomber.

Probably the biggest geographic link

had to do with universities where bombs were found.

There were two at the University of California,

at Berkeley,

and one at the University of Michigan

in Ann Arbor.

We knew that Ted had gotten his Ph. D.

at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,

and we knew he had been a... assistant professor

at the University of California at Berkeley.

We were looking at the timeline of the bombings

and letters that we had received from Ted.

My big hope was that we would...

find that a letter was sent from Montana,

on a day that, say, a bomb was sent from California.

So, I was still hopeful that he might be ruled out.

And, um, what David knew was that

Ted would sometimes hitch a ride to Helena, Montana.

And from there, he would catch a Greyhound bus

all the way to the San Francisco Bay area.

I made some calls to the Greyhound bus line.

They said there's no way you could take

the Greyhound bus from Helena, Montana

to San Francisco, California,

without going through Salt Lake City, Utah.

And since Salt Lake City is one of the places

where a bomb had gone off,

that was very concerning.

I'm actually thinking my brother

could be the most wanted person in America,

a serial murderer.

The cost if we were wrong either way

was so intense.

If we did nothing

and Ted was the Unabomber, he might strike again.

Someone would be dead.

We'd have to go through the rest of our lives

understanding that somebody died

because we had failed to act. That was intolerable.

And then the other side of this

was the realization, my God, if Ted is...

if Ted is guilty and he's killed three people,

then he's probably gonna get the death penalty.

What would it be like for me

to go through the rest of my life

with my brother's blood on my hands?

The brother I'd sworn to never abandon.

Man, that was unthinkable.

It was like, I was sort of in this box,

not at all of my own making

and there was like no way to get out of it.

For me, it was easy.

There was a possibility uh...

somewhat a pretty decent possibility

that he was the Unabomber,

so we had to do something.

So, David called me

and he said, you know,

that this was, this was bad news.

I said, "Well, we think we need to stop the violence,

so we'd like you to contact the FBI."

We thought everything's gonna change,

you know, everything's gonna...

well, two or three weeks go by, we don't hear anything.

We are deluged with information.

People are mailing in writings from...

their uncles, their brothers,

their ex-boyfriends,

saying, well, this person might be the Unabomber.

And we're trying to take it in and process it.

There were thousands of people who got brief looks.

There were 2.417 people

who were designated formally as suspects.

Ted Kaczynski was number 2.416.

But at this point, my mother got sick.

She was in the hospital in Chicago.

I had to fly back there,

and I found myself alone in her house.

And, um, I realized she had saved a bunch of letters

from my brother,

and among her letters,

I find a 23-page manuscript

which was like...

I guess you'd call it a proto-manifesto.

It was the essence of the manifesto

boiled down to 23 pages,

written maybe several years earlier.

And at that point, without hesitation,

we contacted the FBI.

A call came into the switchboard,

at the San Francisco office,

looking for someone from the Unabomb Task Force.

It was from an agent and she's read the document

and she thinks it might be important.

All she wanted is someone on the task force

to look at the document

before it just went into the...

great pile of okay-this-has been-handled-and-washed-out.

So, I asked her to send it to me.

She faxed it to me, I looked at it,

uh, and I concluded that

the writer of this 23-page document

and the writer of the manifesto

were the same person.

This is a huge moment.

The light is at the end of the tunnel.

We are going to solve this case.

We are convinced of it.

But we don't have enough evidence to arrest him.

We can tie him very definitively to the manifesto,

but it's ties based on...

linguistic analysis, essentially.

That's not enough to arrest him.

We need to get into that cabin,

we need to conduct a search of that cabin,

and see what's in there.

That becomes the primary goal,

is getting into the cabin by a search warrant.

We send a handful of agents up there.

They approached my dad because Ted trusted him -

I mean, as much as he probably trusted anybody -

because he'd been his neighbor for 20-plus years.

They were like, "What do you know about your neighbor, Ted?"

And Butch is like, "He's a hermit."

And they go, "Well, we're pretty sure

he's the Unabomber."

And Butch is like, "No, he's not the Unabomber."

And he's like, "Yeah, we, we're pretty sure we got him.

And so would you

be willing to help us

in his arrest?"

And Butch is like, "Well, what do you need?"

Well, my dad was asked

to video the terrain

around Ted's place.

And he went out there

and took his video camera,

held it down by his hip

and just walked the grounds

so that the FBI could have a clear vision

of what the terrain looked like around Ted's cabin.

My dad, Butch, was the eyes and the ears of the operation.

We start getting hints before April

that the investigators are narrowing in;

that the Manifesto

has lit a fuse

and that something's going down.

And so, we're scratching everywhere we can.

We get clues,

some of the networks get clues.

They're trying to keep a tight lid on it,

but it's leaking out.

The task force was contacted by CBS

at the beginning of April.

And CBS News indicated that they, essentially,

had the story,

and they were going to run with the story.

We couldn't afford for media trucks

to be driving down that little dirt road

and knock on his door...

for a million reasons.

So, okay, we had 24 hours to get in place.

We flew a planeload of agents,

the entire San Francisco SWAT team

to surround the cabin,

crawl into place during the night,

and then all the other people we would need

to knock on his door the next day.

The day of the arrest, it was early,

it's kind of chilly,

wind was blowing.

The air was so...

I mean, the tension was so thick

you could just feel it.

We didn't want to have a situation

where we had a barricaded gunman.

We knew Ted had at least one weapon,

a, a rifle.

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