Jury Likely To Indict Unabomber Suspect

Theodore Kaczynski is expected to be indicted Tuesday in Sacramento for Unabomber-related crimes and could be transferred to California by the end of the week, a federal source said Friday.

The Sacramento indictment is the only one immediately planned, although federal authorities have discussed bringing charges in New Jersey and other locations as well, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Attorney General Janet Reno, who was in San Francisco on Friday for a speech, refused to comment.

Kaczynski, 54, has been jailed in Helena, Mont., without bond since his arrest April 3 at the mountain cabin where he spent most of his time since quitting his job at the Universiy of California in 1969. The former math professor has been charged only with possession of bomb-making materials.

The Unabomber is blamed for three deaths and 23 injuries in an 18-year bombing spree that began in 1978.

Two of the fatalities were in Sacramento - California Foresty Association Presiden Gilbert P. Murray, 47, killed April 24, 1995, and 38-year-old Hugh Scrutton, killed by a bomb found near his computer rental store on Dec. 11, 1985.

The federal death penalty, revived in 1994, would apply to Murray’s death, but came too late for the Scrutton case.

The third death was that of advertising executive Thomas Mosser, 50, who was killed Dec. 10, 1994, by a bomb sent to his home in North Caldwell, N.J. The cases could eventually be combined into the Sacramento indictment.