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Two days before
Omar Mateen executed the bloodiest shooting in American history, seasoned domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who is notoriously media-shy, penned an eerie letter addressed to "Journalists in General."
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On June 10, 2016, Ted, also known as the Unabomber, delivered a chilling warning to the media.
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"As P.T. Barnum said, 'There's a sucker born every day,'" he wrote to an editor at
Buzzfeed. "Apparently many of them grow up to become journalists."
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The letter went on to warn the media to be wary of copycat "creeps."
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The warning came after several journalist were duped by an impostor claiming to be him, who had written to them offering an interview.
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He lamented that "many journalists are too stupid and lazy" to take precautions.
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Just two days later, Mateen carried out his attack, which has sent the media scrambling to discover whether or not he had ties with international terror organizations as he
claimed before his death.
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Kaczynski is currently serving eight life sentences in a Colorado supermax facility for sending 16 mail bombs from 1978 to 1995.
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