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mahatmakanejeeves

(58,050 posts)
Mon Dec 11, 2023, 07:02 AM Dec 2023

On this day, December 11, 1985, computer store owner Hugh Scrutton was killed by a bomb mailed by the Unabomber.

Ted Kaczynski

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Bombings

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Later bombings

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In late 1985, a nail-and-splinter-loaded bomb in the parking lot of a computer store in Sacramento, California, killed 38-year-old owner of the store, Hugh Scrutton. On February 20, 1987, a bomb disguised as a piece of lumber injured Gary Wright in the parking lot of a computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah; nerves in Wright's left arm were severed, and at least 200 pieces of shrapnel entered his body. Kaczynski was spotted while planting the Salt Lake City bomb. This led to a widely distributed sketch of the suspect as a hooded man with a mustache and aviator sunglasses.

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On this day, December 11, 1985, computer store owner Hugh Scrutton was killed by a bomb mailed by the Unabomber. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 OP
I didn't follow that case closely at all bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #1

bucolic_frolic

(43,862 posts)
1. I didn't follow that case closely at all
Mon Dec 11, 2023, 10:36 AM
Dec 2023

It was just oh, a nut job, to me anyway. Following your link I had no idea he did 16 of these things. I thought it was only 2 or 3.

So thanks for the OP.

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