WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Janet Reno, together
with United States Attorneys Charles J. Stevens (Eastern District
of California), Michael J. Yamaguchi (Northern District of
California), Faith S. Hochberg (New Jersey), and Sherry S.
Matteucci (Montana), today announced the return of a ten-count
indictment in Sacramento, California, charging THEODORE JOHN
KACZYNSKI with four separate bombings that killed two individuals
and injured two others.
"These charges are the result of a multi-agency
investigation by the UNABOM Task Force into a series of bombings
that occurred across the United States beginning in 1978," said
the Attorney General.
The indictment alleges that four bombs that killed Gilbert
B. Murray and Hugh Scrutton and injured Drs. Charles Epstein and
David Gelernter were placed in, mailed to, or mailed from
Sacramento, California. The investigation of a bomb that killed
advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser on December 10, 1994 in
North Caldwell, New Jersey, for which venue does not lie in
Sacramento, is continuing.
KACZYNSKI currently is being held in the District of
Montana, where he was arrested on a criminal complaint charging
him with possession of bomb components in that district. The
government will initiate proceedings to dismiss the Montana
complaint and remove KACZYNSKI to Sacramento for arraignment on
the charges in the Sacramento indictment. It will defer until a
later date a decision regarding prosecution of KACZYNSKI for the
charges in the Montana complaint.
According to the indictment, which was returned by a Federal
Grand Jury sitting in Sacramento, KACZYNSKI transported the bomb
that killed Gilbert B. Murray from Montana to Oakland,
California, and then mailed it to the California Forestry
Association in Sacramento. When Murray opened the package on
April 24, 1995, it exploded and killed him. For these alleged
acts, KACZYNSKI is charged with three counts of: transporting an
explosive device with intent to kill or injure (18 U.S.C.
844(d)), mailing an explosive device with intent to kill or
injure (18 U.S.C. 1716), and using a destructive device in
relation to a crime of violence (18 U.S.C. 924(c)). If
convicted on the first two of these counts, KACZYNSKI would be
subject to a maximum possible sentence of death or life
imprisonment on each count. The third of these counts, under
Section 924(c), carries a mandatory, consecutive sentence of 30
years imprisonment.
The indictment also charges that KACZYNSKI transported the
bomb that killed Hugh Scrutton from Montana to Sacramento, and
placed it behind the Rentech computer store in Sacramento. When
Scrutton moved the bomb on December 11, 1985, it exploded and
killed him. For these alleged acts, KACZYNSKI is charged with
one count of transporting an explosive device with intent to kill
or injure, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section
844(d). If convicted on that charge, KACZYNSKI would be subject
to a maximum possible penalty of death or life imprisonment.
The indictment further charges that KACZYNSKI transported
two other bombs from Montana to Sacramento, mailing one to Dr.
Charles Epstein in Tiburon, California on or about June 18, 1993,
and another to Dr. David Gelernter in New Haven, Connecticut, on
or about the same date. Both Epstein and Gelernter were injured
when they opened the packages and the bombs exploded. For each
of these alleged bombings, KACZYNSKI is charged with three counts
of: transporting an explosive with intent to kill or injure (18
U.S.C. 844(d)), mailing an explosive device with intent to kill
or injure (18 U.S.C. 1716), and using a destructive device in
relation to a crime of violence (18 U.S.C. 924(c)). If
convicted, KACZYNSKI faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20
years for each violation of Sections 844(d) and 1716. A
conviction on any two of the three Section 924(c) counts
contained in the indictment would result in a mandatory sentence
of life without parole.
The UNABOM Task Force, which is headquartered in San
Francisco, California, is a multi-agency investigation involving
the cooperative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the Postal Inspection Service, and
numerous state and local law enforcement agencies. It is led by
Jim R. Freeman, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's office in
San Francisco, and supervised by Terry D. Turchie, Assistant
Special Agent in Charge of that office. The UNABOM Task Force
coordinated its efforts with and received significant support
from the FBI Criminal Investigative Division as well as FBI field
offices in Chicago, Newark, New Haven, Sacramento and Salt Lake
City.
The prosecution of this UNABOM Task Force case is the result
of cooperative efforts within the Department of Justice,
including the Department's Criminal Division and twelve of the
Department's United States Attorneys and their staffs: James B.
Burns of the Northern District of Illinois, Christopher F. Droney
of Connecticut, Saul A. Green of the Eastern District of
Michigan, Faith S. Hochberg of New Jersey, Nora M. Manella of the
Central District of California, Scott M. Matheson, Jr. of Utah,
Sherry S. Matteucci of Montana, Katrina M. Pflaumer of the
Western District of Washington, John M. Roberts of the Middle
District of Tennessee, Charles J. Stevens of the Eastern District
of California, Donald K. Stern of Massachusetts, and Michael J.
Yamaguchi of the Northern District of California.
Reflecting the multi-district nature of the investigation,
the prosecution team for the case is comprised of prosecutors
from several United States Attorneys Offices and the Criminal
Division of the Department of Justice. It is led by Robert J.
Cleary of New Jersey. Its other members are Stephen P. Freccero
of San Francisco, Bernard F. Hubley of Montana, R. Steven Lapham
of Sacramento, and E. Thomas Roberts and J. Douglas Wilson of the
Department's Criminal Division.
The Sacramento prosecution will be supervised by United
States Attorney Charles J. Stevens and Principal Associate Deputy
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, who is coordinating the
overall national investigation.
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