{"id":21703,"date":"2025-04-29T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ted-kaczynskis-brother-wrote-him-for-decades-to-explain-why-he-turned-him-in\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:10:25","slug":"ted-kaczynskis-brother-wrote-him-for-decades-to-explain-why-he-turned-him-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ted-kaczynskis-brother-wrote-him-for-decades-to-explain-why-he-turned-him-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kaczynski\u2019s Brother Wrote Him For Decades to Explain Why He Turned Him In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was May 1996, and David Kaczynski, a counselor for troubled youth in upstate New York, sat down to write a letter to his brother Ted. A month earlier, his brother had been shockingly unmasked as the shadowy Unabomber, responsible for a 17-year campaign of bombings that had killed and maimed people across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history. He was now in custody and facing what would almost certainly be a lifetime behind bars, if not a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The tipster was David.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sitting in his home in Schenectady, N.Y., David began writing the letter. He used a pencil, knowing he might have to erase before he got it right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI could only imagine how much Ted resented me,\u201d he recalled in an interview. Would Ted consider allowing him to visit, he wrote, and try to explain? \u201cI wanted to tell him in person that we morally felt an obligation to stop the violence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ted declined to put David on his visitors list, and when he wrote back, it was to turn the fury of his resentment on his brother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou will go to hell because, for you, seeing yourself as you really are will truly be hell,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David remembers being stung, but not surprised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTed\u2019s letter confirmed my fear and expectation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt felt like the hand of fate falling.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-nss59b e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">The Kaczynski brothers alongside family members in the backyard of their parents\u2019 house in Evergreen Park, Ill, around 1964.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">via David Kaczynski<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He tried again, yearning for a different response. David would spend nearly three decades writing to his brother, years marked by nostalgia, regret and intense self-reflection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a series of recent interviews with The New York Times, David spoke in detail for the first time about his long correspondence \u2014 about the dozens of letters and cards he sent, along with books that he thought Ted would find interesting \u2014 all in an attempt to pry back open a line of communication that his decision to approach the F.B.I. had closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The letters range from the prosaic to the profound: recollections of childhood softball games, news about David\u2019s retirement, updates on their aging mother\u2019s declining health. Occasionally, there were wistful laments about the demise of the strong bond they had shared in a bygone time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was hoping that I might have an opportunity to meet with Ted and explain to him in person what I\u2019d done and why,\u201d David, 75, said of the correspondence, some of which is archived at the University of Michigan and also includes years of birthday and Christmas cards. \u201cI wasn\u2019t necessarily hoping that Ted would understand my point of view well enough to forgive me. But I thought we both deserved a chance to look into each other\u2019s eyes and share the truth of our principles and feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5764588d\">Two brothers, one boyhood<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Kaczynski brothers, the sons of first-generation Polish Americans, grew up in Evergreen Park, Ill., a working-class suburb of Chicago. Their parents put a premium on intellectual curiosity, academic achievement and leading an ethically principled life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The family often played music together as a quartet, and the boys developed a love of nature. But David, seven years younger than Ted, was struck by how socially awkward his brother was and that he had no friends other than him. Their mother once observed that Ted was intensely protective of David and that David seemed to be the only person he cared about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David sometimes reminisced about those years in his letters to Ted.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">The Kaczynski brothers at their home in Evergreen Park, Ill., in 1952.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">via David Kaczynski<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Academically and professionally, the two men\u2019s lives took off on different trajectories. Ted, a mathematics prodigy, enrolled at Harvard University at the age of 16 and then earned a master\u2019s degree and a doctorate at the University of Michigan. From there, he became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, but struggled with mental health issues and left after a few years. David, who aspired to be a writer, graduated from Columbia University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David looked up to his older brother, impressed by his smarts and sense of independence, and wanted to be like him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The two shared a desire to escape society and seek refuge in nature. In the summer of 1969, Ted invited David to join him on a trip to the Yukon in northwest Canada to scout for a plot of land. They spent weeks roaming through forests and talking over campfires. Later, David would recall the trip in one of his letters to his brother in prison:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Soon after that, in 1971, the brothers purchased a 1.4-acre parcel of land outside Lincoln, Mont., where Ted built his new home: a shack with no running water or electricity. David was living roughly 90 miles away in Great Falls and working at a zinc smelter. He was delighted to have Ted closer by. David had a small circle of new friends, and Ted would sometimes join the group to talk philosophy or play basketball or soccer.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-nss59b e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Ted Kaczynski outside his cabin in Lincoln, Mont.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">via David Kaczynski<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There was a balance to their relationship: \u201cTed led me on hikes, whereas I led Ted in negotiating our social world, as modest as it was,\u201d David said. \u201cNot sure I quite realized at the time just how important I\u2019d become in Ted\u2019s life as his best and only friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But David\u2019s stint in Montana would soon come to an end. After losing his job at the zinc smelter in a round of layoffs, he took a position as an English teacher at a high school in the small town of Lisbon, Iowa, where his father had once managed a plant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David taught there for two years before taking time off to work on a novel. Describing himself as \u201canti-careerist,\u201d he turned his sights on the West Texas desert, which had enchanted him since he first visited on a vacation several years earlier. Inspired by the 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger to, in David\u2019s words, \u201cexplore true being,\u201d he moved to the desert in 1982 and embraced an isolated and largely primitive life for extended periods over nearly eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He hunkered down in a large rectangular ditch that he had dug and partly covered with pieces of corrugated tin, replacing it later with an 8-by 12-foot cabin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a way, he was now living in a parallel universe to Ted\u2019s. The brothers shared their experiences in letters to each other.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-115ca897\">A brother\u2019s betrayal<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bombings started on May 25, 1978, when a campus security officer at Northwestern University was injured while investigating a package that had been reported by a professor as suspicious. Another explosive device turned up at the university\u2019s technological institute about a year later. Those bombs would result in only minor injuries; over the course of Ted\u2019s lengthy bombing campaign, three people would be killed and 23 injured by his homemade missives, all directed at what he would later say was the need to call attention to the destructive forces of industrial society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David and the rest of the Kaczynski family had no idea that Ted\u2019s increasing paranoia and isolation were turning violent. By around 1985, Ted had all but cut off contact with his parents, after angrily accusing them of pushing him too hard to excel academically and blaming them for making him a social misfit. He made a few exceptions: He called his mother from a pay phone in 1990 to express his condolences when his father, who had been given a terminal cancer diagnosis, committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David had left the desert for New York the previous year to move in with Linda Patrik, an associate professor of philosophy with a personal interest in Buddhism whom he had known since junior high school. When he informed Ted of his marriage plans, Ted, who had never met Ms. Patrik, fumed, and warned him, in what David called a \u201cvicious\u201d letter, that he was making the biggest mistake of his life. Ted then severed virtually all communication with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Unabomber\u2019s attacks continued, and the authorities had few leads. But then, in 1995, the elusive perpetrator provided an essential clue: a 35,000-word manifesto, published in The Washington Post in collaboration with The New York Times, asserting that the world needed to understand that \u201cthe Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People were living in a society that made them unhappy and then being prescribed drugs to take away their unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David\u2019s wife urged him to come with her to the library at the college where she taught and he was able to read half a dozen pages of the manifesto online, the first time he had ever used the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Linda told him about something that had been bothering her: Didn\u2019t some of those phrases and ideas sound just like Ted?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though he had scarcely admitted it even to himself, David was slowly starting to think the same thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWithout Linda, I probably would have shoved it in a drawer and tried my best not to think about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For three months, David worked with a private investigator and a former F.B.I. behavioral science expert to explore whether Ted could be the Unabomber. Finally, he reached out to a lawyer, who helped him contact the F.B.I.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ted\u2019s arrest, in April 1996, came about six weeks later, David recalled. Eventually, a plea deal averted the death penalty, resulting instead in a life sentence without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David wrote to his brother not long after the arrest, and received a blistering three-page reply, in which he accused David of having a \u201ctalent for self-deception.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-14\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David \u2014 who became a Buddhist after his brother\u2019s arrest, finding solace in the tradition\u2019s notion that everything is interconnected \u2014 was undeterred. In part, he was trying to respect a pledge that their mother, Wanda Kaczynski, had asked him to honor when he was a boy. \u201cPlease remember that you must never abandon your brother, because that\u2019s what he fears the most,\u201d she told him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Seven months after Ted\u2019s arrest, David was still struggling with his own feelings of responsibility, and apologized to him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-15\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sometimes, David would reminisce about their time playing summer sports together. \u201cI still remember with great pleasure how we used to bat the ball around,\u201d he wrote in 2004. \u201cAnd the softball game where you went 7 for 7 and I made a great catch. We were something that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He had imagined those days might live forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-16\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David regularly made deposits in Ted\u2019s commissary account to help him pay for small purchases at the prison, and sometimes ordered books for his brother online. At his mother\u2019s request, he shipped Ted a book, \u201cWho Ordered This Truckload of Dung? Inspiring Stories For Welcoming Life\u2019s Difficulties,\u201d as a Christmas gift in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ted never acknowledged it, but scratched a note at the bottom of the invoice: \u201cNeedless to say, this went straight into the trash, like all books sent by my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-17\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2007, David notified his brother that their mother was suffering \u201ca serious health crisis.\u201d He appealed to Ted to finally reach out to her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-18\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There was no response, and several years later, when Ms. Kaczynski was near death, David contacted the prison chaplain. \u201cThe chaplain never called me back, but instead called Mom\u2019s doctor and said Ted didn\u2019t want to talk,\u201d he recalled. Ms. Kaczynski died in 2011 at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-20\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still facing a brick wall when he tried to communicate with his brother, David found himself turning to an unlikely source for friendship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gary Wright, one of the Unabomber\u2019s victims, was badly injured in 1987 when he picked up an odd-looking object that appeared to be a piece of lumber with nails sticking out of it that had been left in the parking lot of a computer store he owned in Utah. It exploded, and his body was pierced by more than 200 pieces of shrapnel, and the nerves were severed in his left arm. He underwent a dozen operations and treatment for post-traumatic stress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the months after Ted\u2019s arrest, David and his wife wrote to surviving victims and families of those who had been killed by Ted\u2019s bombs, apologizing and asking what they could do to help them cope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The response was sparse, but later, a private investigator who had seen a TV interview with Mr. Wright, for whom David had had no address, advised David to make an effort to call him. Mr. Wright seemed approachable, the detective said, and not that angry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David phoned Mr. Wright, and they spoke for about 20 minutes. The two men still remember their first conversation. \u201cDavid, you have nothing to apologize for,\u201d Gary told him. \u201cYou did the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-21\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For David, it was a turning point. \u201cIt was like a bridge across this abyss between myself and all the families that had been harmed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The two men went on to meet often through the years, connecting over the country musician Merle Haggard, visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum together, making public appearances to talk about ending the death penalty and the power of friendship and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2015, David and his wife made Texas their primary residence after retiring from their jobs at a Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, N.Y., where David was executive director for three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David kept writing to Ted, and continued to reflect on the times they had shared in the past and his own spiritual journey. In one of the letters he recalled the trip the two of them had taken to the Yukon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-22\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-74f2c737\">A letter at Christmas<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the Christmas season in 2021, David was puzzled because a holiday letter he had sent to Ted at the federal supermax prison in Colorado had been returned as undeliverable. David had been sending letters there without a hitch for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He telephoned the prison and was told that Ted was no longer housed there, but nothing more. He searched the Bureau of Prisons online inmate locator, which showed his brother to be housed at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., the prison system\u2019s largest medical complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anxious to learn what he could about his brother\u2019s health, David contacted a lawyer who had represented Ted at his trial. The lawyer told him she had heard that Ted had been diagnosed with late-stage cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Reddit, he found a letter posted that Ted had apparently written to someone whose name was scratched out, in which Ted disclosed that he was dying from terminal cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-23\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David found himself reflecting on the complexities and the tragedy that had beset their brotherhood, and how a family that had once been so close had come apart, and was in fact fading away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMaybe I felt like I was now coming to the end of some epic novel \u2014 one serious enough and mysterious enough to keep me pondering for all my remaining years,\u201d David recalled in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He stepped up the pace of his letters to Ted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI needed to tell him that I loved him, and to recount the ways in which he\u2019d had a positive influence on my life,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I knew Ted had a very stubborn side, making it highly unlikely I would ever hear from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In what turned out to be the last letter he sent to his brother, David told him that the best of his ideas \u201cwould outlive all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On a June morning in 2023, David and his wife had just finished a hike and were snacking on crispbreads and cheese at a picnic table in a park near their apartment when David skimmed his cellphone. There was an email from his former lawyer, notifying him of reports that Ted had died. \u201cI am very sorry,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-24\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ted had been found dead in his solitary cell, having killed himself. Unbidden, David\u2019s thoughts turned to his father\u2019s suicide years earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even more profoundly, he felt an emptiness. All those years of letters \u2014 even without an answer, they had kept a door wedged open. Now it was closed forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA totally one-sided relationship is still a relationship of sorts,\u201d David said. \u201cBut now, if I am able to find words to describe my feelings and memories that I want to share with Ted, I can only speak those words to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David tried desperately to find out from prison officials whether he could have a role in the handling of his brother\u2019s remains, but for weeks, he could not get an answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDear Sir or Madam, Please, please, PLEASE give me the phone number of someone I can speak with,\u201d he wrote in one email. \u201cTo hear nothing from you feels dismissively cruel. Does the B.O.P. treat other families so? I loved my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-25\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was finally told that Ted\u2019s remains had been handled according to his written wishes and that David would have to file a federal Freedom of Information Act request to learn anything more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David could barely contain his resentment about the way he\u2019d been treated by prison officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI made the difficult decision to share my suspicions about Ted with the F.B.I., the effect of which was to save lives,\u201d he said in one of numerous emails to federal prison officials that mostly went unanswered. \u201cWe all worked together for the common good. Now you ignore my simple request to learn whether I can have a role in the disposition of my brother\u2019s remains? That is heartless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It turned out that Ted had left a handwritten will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-26\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David still does not know what became of Ted\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2f4cf64a\">New reflections<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-27\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David has continued to see Mr. Wright, 64, appearing with him at a Yom Kippur event in Santa Monica, Calif. not long after Ted died. David told the gathering that he was struggling with \u201csome grief\u201d over his brother\u2019s death. He ruefully explained that Ted \u201cnever spoke to me again\u201d after his arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-28\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He then looked warmly at Mr. Wright. \u201cIt\u2019s not the same maybe, but I believe in spiritual brotherhood, too,\u201d he said. Putting his arm around Mr. Wright\u2019s shoulder, he added, \u201cGary is my brother in spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Often, he is asked about his brother\u2019s writings, which have taken on new currency in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt appears that more and more people are taking his ideas seriously,\u201d David said in an interview. \u201cWhere are we going with things like artificial intelligence? Will it compromise human freedom and poison our basic human capacity for creative, original thinking? And if so, how do we protect ourselves and preserve the very essence of our spiritual being? How do we heal our once-intimate relationship with Mother Nature before it\u2019s too late?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Ted\u2019s prescience, he said, was poisoned by his violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWaves of anger and desperation born of utter helplessness can never be harnessed to produce skillful means for generating social change,\u201d David said. \u201cI\u2019m afraid that his violent actions only served to stigmatize his thinking. 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