Jamie Gehring: I believe the process was important to me because I needed to reclaim memories that felt tarnished after the unveiling of the Unabomber. Why was this important to you–and do you feel like the process provided the closure you were looking for? John Valeri: One of your motivations for writing this book was to (try to) reconcile your knowledge of Ted Kaczynski (“Teddy”) with the man the world came to know as the Unabomber. Gehring generously recounted how the process of researching and writing her book allowed her to both contextualize her family’s true proximity to danger and reconcile her childhood memories with an adult understanding of those formative years and how they were shaped by the Madman in the Woods. She and her family make their home in Denver, Colorado. Gehring earned a BA in visual communications and has since worked in financial advising and graphic design. The book is an expansion of the story she shared in Netflix’s popular mini-series, Unabomber-In His Own Words. Jamie Gehring has the uniquely unsettling distinction of having grown up sharing a backyard with Ted Kaczynski in Lincoln, Montana-which she recounts in her new true crime memoir, Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber.
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