"Combining the observations of a one-time close neighbor with extensive research and empathy for the many lives affected, Jamie Gehring's book might well be the best attempt yet to understand the strange life and mind of my brother, Theodore J. A work of intricately braided research, journalism, and personal memories, this book is a chilling response to the question: Do you really know your neighbor? And she discovers a shocking revelationshe and her family were in Kaczynski's crosshairs. In this book, through years of research probing Ted's personal history, his writings, his secret coded crime journals, her own correspondence with him in his Supermax prison cell, plus interviews with others close to Kaczynski, Gehring unearths the complexity, mystery, and tragedy of her childhood with the madman in the woods. The innocence of her youth robbed, Gehring needed to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that hid in plain sight.
In Gehring's investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood and to answer the questions, why, how, she recalls what were once innocent memories and odd circumstances that become less puzzling in hindsight. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was "just the odd hermit." In fact, he was much more-Ted eluded the FBI for seventeen years while mailing explosives to strangers, earning the infamous title of Unabomber.
But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder.
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