The Associated Press

Trail of Victims

Following is a list of bombings linked to the Unabomber. The FBI gave the case the code name “Una-bom” because early targets were universities and airlines.

  • May 25–26,1978: Package found at a parking lot at the University of Illinois at Chicago and brought to Northwestern University in Evanston because of return address. It explodes when opened May 26, injuring one person.

  • May 9, 1979: One person injured at Northwestern University.

  • Nov. 15, 1979: Twelve people suffer smoke inhalation when bomb explodes in plane’s cargo hold during American Airlines flight, forcing emergency landing at Dulles International Airport near Washington.

  • June 10, 1980: United Airlines president injured at home in Chicago area.

  • Oct. 8,1981: Bomb placed in a business classroom at University of Utah in Salt Lake City. No one injured.

  • May 5, 1982: One person injured at Vanderbilt University in Nashville; package addressed to a professor.

  • July 2, 1982: Professor of electrical engineering and computer science injured in faculty lounge at University of California at Berkeley.

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Thomas Mosser
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David Gelernter

  • May 15, 1985: One person injured by bomb found in computer room at University of California at Berkeley.

  • June 13, 1985: Package that was mailed to Boeing Co. in Auburn. Wash., on May 8 discovered and safely disarmed.

  • Nov. 15, 1985: Two people injured by package mailed to professor at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Professor, who was standing nearby, unhurt.

  • Dec. 11, 1985: Hugh Scrutton, 38, killed by bomb found near his computer rental store in Sacramento, Calif.

  • Feb. 20,1987: Man injured by bomb left behind computer store in Salt Lake City.

  • June 22, 1993: Geneticist at University of California at San Francisco injured by bomb sent to his home.

  • June 24, 1993: Yale University computer scientist David Gelemter, who earned his doctorate at the University at Stony Brook, injured in office.

  • Dec. 10, 1994: Advertising executive Thomas Mosser. 50, killed by bomb sent to North Caldwell, N.J.. home.

  • April 24, 1995: California Forestry Association President Gilbert Murray, 47, killed opening mail bomb in group’s Sacramento headquarters.


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