#title Trail of Victims
#author The Associated Press
#lang en
#pubdate 2026-01-17T14:52:19
#date Apr 4, 1996
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#lang en
#pubdate 2026-01-17T14:32:44.898Z
#topics news stories


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.

[[t-a-the-associated-press-trail-of-victims-2.jpg 70f][Thomas Mosser]]

[[t-a-the-associated-press-trail-of-victims-3.jpg 70f][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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