(6 Dec 1997) English/Nat
As jury selection continues in the Unabomber trial, a key piece of defence evidence arrived in Sacramento, California, on Friday.
The tiny plywood shack where suspect Theodore Kaczynski lived for more than 20 years arrived by truck from Montana.
This shack was built in the woods of Montana by a man accused of killing three people because of his rage at the technological advances of the modern world.
Theodore Kaczynski was wrested from the cabin by the F-B-I in April 1996 after he was identified by his brother, David, as a suspect in the Unabomber attacks.
It was Kaczynski's lawyers who paid to bring the 13-by-13-foot (four-by-four metre) shack 11-hundred miles (1,760 kilometres) from Montana to Sacramento.
They say it will help them prove Kaczynski is mentally ill.
They are anxious to show jurors the claustrophobic atmosphere in which Kaczynski lived for more than 20 years, without electricity or running water.
The only heat was provided by a small wood-burning stove.
The defence plan to argue that Kaczynski suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, perhaps since adolescence.
However, prosecutors claim the cabin was a bomb-making factory where Kaczynski constructed bombs that would ultimately kill three people and injure many others.
Inside the hut, agents found bomb-making equipment, a live bomb, a draft of the Unabomber's manifesto and a typewriter that matched the one on which the manifesto was written.
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