Kaczynski's brother gets $1 million

The U.S. Justice Department wrote a $1 million check Thursday toDavid Kaczynski for turning in his brother, Theodore, in theUnabomber case.

David Kaczynski has promised to use the reward money to ease thegrief of those victimized by his brother's crimes.

"My mother and I respect their loss and wish to do whatever wecan to ease their grief," Kaczynski said last September. He couldnot be reached for comment Thursday.

Kaczynski, a social worker for a youth shelter in Albany, N.Y.,said an unidentified law firm had offered to help him establish atrust fund to help survivors of the bombings. His comments came ashe accepted a "Courage of Convictions" award from his employer fornotifying authorities of suspicions that his brother might be theUnabomber.

The FBI had been tracking the Unabomber without success for 18years before his April, 1996, apprehension in a remote shack inMontana. Between 1978 and 1995, the Unabomber killed three men andinjured 29 others.

Among the victims was Terry Marker, now a Bloomingdale policeofficer, who was called to investigate a suspicious package whileworking as a campus police officer at Northwestern University in1978.

Marker lifted the lid on the wooden shoebox-size parcel and itexploded, leaving him with a minor burn on his left hand.

Marker could not be reached for comment. He told theSun-Times last January that he thought the parcel might be a prank."Never in my wildest dreams did we ever hear about a bomb in apackage."

Northwestern materials science and engineering ProfessorBuckley Crist, the designated recipient of the package, declinedcomment Thursday. "I have put this behind me."

Percy Wood, former president of United Airlines, was injured athis Lake Forest home when a bomb hidden in a book exploded in 1980.

In accepting the award, David Kaczynski said the pain ofrealizing his brother might be the Unabomber will always remain.

"The horror is with us now, and I very much doubt that it willever leave us completely," said David Kaczynski, who fought to havehis brother spared the death penalty. "Someone we love went over theedge or so it seems. . . . I hope that Ted will someday forgiveme."

Contributing: Sun-Times wires