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Marshals Service auctions off Unabomber’s belongings

The U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning off items belonging to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Proceeds will go to Kaczynski\'s victims. Albert Nájera, U.S. Marshal o...

Federal News Network Staff

June 2, 2011 4:27 pm

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By Julia Ziegler
Federal News Radio
Updated June 3

The chance has passed to purchase something owned by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The U.S. Marshals Service auctioned off his belongings with the proceeds going to Kaczynski’s victims.

Some of the highest bids were for Kaczynski’s personal journals, fetching $40,676. Kaczynski’s handwritten autobiography was also sold, netting $17,780.

Other items up for auction included his typewriter, photos of Kaczynski as a young man, yearbooks from Harvard, newspaper clippings found in his cabin, tools, and even some of Kaczynski’s clothing and sunglasses.

In all, collectors paid more than $200,000 for 58 items seized during the raid of Kaczynski’s remote Montana cabin in 1996. The

The Marshals Service explained why it is auctioned the items in a press release.

“The U.S. Marshals Service has been given a unique opportunity to help the victims of Theodore Kaczynski’s horrific crimes,” said U.S. Marshal Albert Nájera of the Eastern District of California. “We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against in his various manifestos to sell artifacts of his life. The proceeds will go to his victims and, in a very small way, offset some of the hardships they have suffered.”

See photos of the items in our photo gallery. Other images are available on the U.S. Marshals Service’s Flickr page.