How Harvard’s psychological experiments may have lit fuse on Unabomber: expert

After investigators uncovered that Kaczynski was the mastermind behind a series of bombings that killed three people and injured 23, they focused their attention on the experiments conducted by psychologist Henry A. Murray on the impressionable teenager studying at Harvard, according to History.com. "It was clearly not ethical to do research and not to tell people, and especially to do the research where they hooked them up to electrodes," Burgess said. However, the question regarding whether Murray’s intense experimentation on Kaczynski exacerbated his mental condition in a way that drove him to commit nearly two-decades of heinous crimes remains unanswered, with experts left to only speculate on the long-term impacts of the study on such a young, fragile mind.