The national media spent much of early 1996 focused on radicals in rural Montana. First, news crews flocked to the state’s eastern plains as the FBI engaged in an 81-day spring standoff with the Montana Freemen. Then, on April 3, they turned west to Lincoln when news broke that federal agents had arrested the Unabomber, […]
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Manhunt: Unabomber Review: Discovery's New Anthology Series Is Less Explosive Than Analytical
How much you enjoy Manhunt: Unabomber will depend almost entirely on one thing: how gripping you find watching someone else solve a puzzle. In the first three hours of Discovery’s new anthology series (premiering Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 9/8c), there are some gruesome reenactments of Ted Kaczynski’s crimes, insurance that we never lose sight of […]
Manhunt: Unabomber: Paul Bettany Eludes the FBI in Explosive New Trailer
O.J. Simpson, the Menendez brothers… now it’s the Unabomber turn in TV’s ’90s true-crime resurgence. Discovery has released a trailer for the eight-episode limited series Manhunt: Unabomber — debuting Tuesday, Aug. 1 at 9/8c — which stars The Avengers alum Paul Bettany as domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured dozens of others by […]