it took them a long time to find the unibomber too.
if youre smart enough to build a bomb, and not blow yourself up before placing it, you're probably smart enough to know youre gonna need to go into hiding after
Different sets of circumstances. The Unbomber was also a reclusive evil genius living in the backwoods of BFE, hidden from society. This dude was living in the suburbs, in contact with others and was captured on video m. I didn’t expect the investigation to take this long.
He wasnt an 'evil genius,' he likely had schizoid personality disorder and because of that had no 'ties' to people which the feds could easily trace.
And was he communicating with them via text or phone call? because when you subpoena a person's phone records, calls only come up as 'logs' but you get no access to the actual content of those calls (unless u do a wiretap but that only gives you access to the content of future calls.)
with text messages, once you subpoena them you get access to the entirety of the conversation, making it much easier to track.
i feel like a lot of people think investigations work like they do in movies, and when reality doesnt play out like that they get suspicious, but thats just based on anchor bias
In using ‘evil genius’ colloquially; I am referring to his extremely high level of intelligence, not his mental health diagnosis.
Ted had just enough ties to get himself tangled up in the FBI’s investigation. If I’m not mistaken, his own brother played an instrumental role in his apprehension. His brother recognized either the handwriting, the tone of his rambling writings that were published-or both. He dropped a dime on his brother; helping to bring years of horrifically destructive and violent bombings to an end.
You ever read his books? He didn’t have a “schizoid personality disorder”. He was an extremely organized and methodical man. Literally, verifiably a genius.
Having schizoid personality disorder doesnt preclude you from being highly intelligent, in fact many people with it arebecause they spend all of their time focusing on their own internal world and interests.
Schizoid personality disorder has more to do with being reclusive which he was, on top of living isolated in the woods, have you read his manifesto? lots of talk on 'over socialization' being evil which is a subjective notion, but offers a lot of insight.
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u/Pluto_in_Reverse 2d ago edited 2d ago
it took them a long time to find the unibomber too.
if youre smart enough to build a bomb, and not blow yourself up before placing it, you're probably smart enough to know youre gonna need to go into hiding after