The Dungeons and Dragons

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The North Shore general staff plays in a touch football league. Some agents wonder, maybe they're using code and talking about their plans while they're on the field. Theories simultaneously get more ridiculous and more damning. Everything became proof that we had done it. At some point, relatively quickly, we got together and part of it was just a glorious laughter That anyone could suspect us of anything like this. I mean, none of us had the skillset to do the airline bomb. Back in 1980, you know, the 1970s, Dungeons and Dragons to some people was seen as a cult.

The UNABOM investigation was one of the longest manhunts in American history - it lasted for 18 years starting in 1978. Before the FBI started investigating Ted Kaczynski, they looked into a number of suspects, including a group of friends who loved playing Dungeons & Dragons.

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