The federal government held the court-ordered sale from May
18 until Thursday, as bidders snapped up 58 lots of items seized from Kaczynski
during a 1996 raid of his remote cabin.
The highest selling lot was a collection of 20 personal
journals Kaczynski kept that described his thoughts about himself, society and
life in the wilds of Montana. That went for $40,676, according to the Marshals
Service.
Kaczynski became one of the country’s most infamous
criminals for killing three people and wounding more than 20 victims with
homemade bombs sent by post from 1978 to 1995.
Dubbed the Unabomber when authorities were still seeking to
identify and track him down, Kaczynski claimed to be motivated by a love of
nature and hatred of technology, His journals were just some of the 20,000
pages of written documents featured in the auction. Other sale items included
his hoodie and sunglasses, which resemble those worn in a widely circulated
sketch of the Unabomber suspect, and his typewriters, photographs and tools.
The 69-year-old Kaczynski is serving a life sentence at a
federal prison in Colorado.
Lynzey Donahue, a spokeswoman for the Marshals Service, said
the agency had no initial expectations for how much the sale would generate, because
Kaczynski’s notoriety made the auction different than the usual asset
forfeiture sale.
