I just binge watched on Netflix
Manhunt: Unabomber. It is really good. The program focuses on
James Fitzgerald, the profiler who devoted everything, at the cost of his family, to finding the Unabomber. As many might recall, the big break in the case came when Kaczynski's brother (actually it was the sister-in-law) discovered that the Unabomber Manifesto published in WaPo might have been written by her brother in law. The interesting part of the show, and the case, was how the science of
idiolect* was used to obtain a search warrant for Kaczynski's cabin thus seal the case. The belief of the sister-in-law and brother was not enough for either a search warrant or an arrest warrant. That is where Fitzgerald came in.
The court considered a motion to suppress the fruits of the search warrant, which if granted, would have ended the case and set Kaczynski free. I was anxiously awaiting the legal arguments about idiolect and probable cause only to be met by the disappointment of not showing that. The judge denied the motion in chambers.
One of the takeaways from the show, which Fitzgerald helped produce, and which was said to be 80% faithful to the real events, was how vain and self-centered many of the FBI agents were. Not the rank and file, but the suits. Reno and Freeh come across pretty good, but even with that, they seemed to reinforce the idea that a mistake would be a career ending event.
Fitzgerald is also a consultant for the show "Criminal Minds".
Well worth a look.
*the science of identifying an author from written material.