UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 26, 1995
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Investigators say letters indicated imminent attack
SAN FRANCISCO — The cool and meticulous Unabomber, who has attacked without warning for 17 years, wrote letters this time around that indicated he was unraveling, federal sources said yesterday.
"We anticipated something before the summer," said one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "This guy has flipped out."
The latest victim: Alobbyist for the timber industry in California. Gilbert B. Murray, 47, was killed Monday when a mailed package bomb exploded in his Sacramento office.
"There have been some letters delivered," said the source, who refused to elaborate.
A San Francisco-based task force of FBI, Postal Service and Treasury Department investigators was expecting the latest bombing, the source said.
Murray, president of the California Forestry Association, was the third person killed in 16 attacks attributed to the Unabomber since 1978. Twenty-three people have been injured.
Now, in light of the recent letters in Murray's case, investigators believe the bomber has broken his long silence, the law enforcement source said.
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Only once before has the bomber written a letter — in June 1993 to The New York Times — in which he claimed to be part of a group and espoused an anarchistic philosophy. Agents said, however, that they doubted he belonged to a group and called the Times letter a trial balloon.
A second federal source confirmed that letters from the Unabomber were received. He suggested some may have been timed to arrive the day of the bombing. He also refused to discuss the contents or addresses of the letters.
Sacramento homicide Lt. Joe Enloe said bomb fragments contained the Unabomber's "signature."
This is a very brave, brazen person in the sense that he's not really hiding the fact that the bomb is his." Enloe said. The force of the shoe-box-sized bomb sent fragments 140 feet into the building's reception area, he said.
The package was addressed to Murray's predecessor, William Dennison, who left the job a year ago. The Postal Inspection Service is tracking where and when the bomb was mailed, representative Dan DeMilios said.
"It was an extremely cleanly wrapped package, almost flawlessly wrapped. It appeared to have no seams. It was clearly addressed," DengMigha said.
The Unabomber, who got the name because he initially targeted university and airline officials, is known for careful craftsmanship and meticulous wrapping. The Murray bomb was his 16th.
A composite drawing of the bomber was distributed after he was spotted dropping off a package in Salt Lake City in 1887. He was quiet for six years but resumed his work with two bombings two days apart in June 1983. His latest, before Monday's attack, was in December, when a bomb killed advertising executive Thomas Mosser in his New Jersey home.
Monday's bombing fits a pattern similar to bombings since 1982. In each case except one, a first bombing was followed by a second in a week to a few months.
The Mosser attack and Monday's bombing are the latest to show the Unabomber's apparent fascination with wood.
Mosser lived on Aspen Drive, Murray was a lobbyist for the timber industry. Earlier victims included Percy Wood, then-head of United Airlines. He lived in Lake Forest. The Unabomber has used phony return addresses on his mail bombs that have included Ravenswood and Forest Glen Road.
One bomb was encased in a book cover embossed with a tree leaf. Many of his bombs have included unusual wooden parts and have been encased in wood. One early bomb had twigs attached.
FBI experts on psychological profiles won't discuss the wood fascination publicly.
They have said the bomber was an anti-social white male, probably in his early 40s.
The bombs usually show signs of having been taken apart and reassembled several times before they are mailed, and the outsides are polished.
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