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New Miniseries Tells Story Of How The FBI Caught The Unabomber

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Sam Worthington as Jim Fitzgerald and Paul Bettany as Ted Kaczynski in an image from the Discovery Channel series "Manhunt: Unabomber." (Courtesy Discovery Channel)
Sam Worthington as Jim Fitzgerald and Paul Bettany as Ted Kaczynski in an image from the Discovery Channel series "Manhunt: Unabomber." (Courtesy Discovery Channel)

"Manhunt: Unabomber," a new TV series on the Discovery Channel, shows how a FBI profiler used Ted Kaczynski's own words to track him down. That former agent, James R. Fitzgerald, is now an expert in forensic linguistics.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with Fitzgerald (@JFitzJourney) about his work to crack the Unabomber case.

This segment aired on August 22, 2017.

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