Unabomber auction raises over $232,000

An online auction of the personal belonging of one of Americas most notorious criminals, Kaczynski, generated $232,246 to compensate his victims and their families.Kaczynski became one of Americas most notorious criminals for killing three people and wounding more than 20 victims with homemade bombs sent by post from 1978 to 1995. Bidders snapped up 58 lots of items seized from Kaczynski during a 1996 raid of his remote cabin. The highest selling lot was of $40,676 comprising of 20 personal journals in which Kaczynski described his thoughts about himself, society and life in the wilds of Montana. 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.