Cases solved or shaped through writing, documents and digital traces, the BTK case, in which the offender sent taunting letters to police and media, and the Unabomber case, in which a published manifesto was central to the investigation. A case belongs here when writing or documentary evidence carried the investigation. The grouping is a browsing aid for visitors to the Crime and Justice Atlas and not a ranking, and a case may also be discussed under other headings in the atlas.
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Wikipedia: Dennis Rader
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In a series of crimes that terrorized Wichita in the mid-to-late 1970s, Rader also initiated a series of taunting letters sent to police and media outlets, describing his crimes in detail and referring to himself as "BTK".
Wikipedia: Ted Kaczynski
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Kaczynski murdered three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against those he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. He authored a roughly 35,000-word manifesto and social critique, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995), which opposes all forms of technology, rejects leftism, advocates cultural primitivism, and ultimately suggests violent revolution.
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