My neighbors, were they ever to introduce themselves, and upon hearing that I was an arsonist and a murderer, would start talking about the virtues of Bermuda grass as opposed to Kentucky blue.

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But I was in the courtroom, listening to the murderer testify.

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"I don't think the prosecution or police ever seriously thought of me as a murderer, " he wrote.

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In 1995, I covered the controversy when The New York Times and The Washington Post, where I then worked, published another manifesto, this one a 35, 000-word ramble by the mass murderer known as the Unabomber.

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