When a package containing a bomb arrived for Patrick C. Fischer at his office at Vanderbilt University in 1982, sent by Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, it put Mr. Fischer’s secretary in the hospital for three weeks with burns and lacerations.
Mr. Fischer’s brother and sister-in-law, who are also computer scientists, wondered if they could be next.
Eleven years later, in 1993, a colleague who worked in the same computer science department as Mr. Fischer’s brother at Yale University, David Gelernter, became another one of Mr. Kaczynski’s victims.
He was severely wounded and permanently lost the use of his right hand.
“We realized that this man was after computer people,” the sister-in-law, Alice Fischer, said on Monday.
Persons:
Patrick C, Fischer, Theodore “ Ted ” Kaczynski, Fischer’s, David Gelernter, “, Alice Fischer, Mr, Kaczynski
Organizations:
Vanderbilt University, Yale University