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The defense lawyers have been waging a stubborn but losing battle to keep out all the evidence found in Kaczynski's mountainside cabin. They are certain to raise more questions when the trial begins, but unless some unexpected decision turns their way, they are going to have to explain to the jury why the FBI says his home contained such items as a fully constructed bomb, the Unabomber's manifesto, the typewriter it was typed on and, most damaging of all, handwritten journals in which Kaczynski recorded virtually every bombing. Last week prosecutors released excerpts, including one that read, "I sent these devices during 1993. They detonated as they should have."
His attorneys may have little choice but to reach for a mental-disease or -defect defense. Says Joseph Russoniello, a former U.S. Attorney in San Francisco: "The defense will need people on that jury who are either incredibly gullible, or cynical, to argue that this fellow did not know the difference between right and wrong. He used incredible genius and guile and eluded law-enforcement officials for all this time. And would have until this day if it weren't for his family's turning him in." Back in Lincoln, many of Kaczynski's old friends are glad that a jury, not they, will decide his fate. But they still have questions. Says Teresa Garland, leaning back from the cash register at her store: "I've always wanted to just sit down and ask him, 'Why?'"