Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber

Jamie Gehring is a Montana native who grew up sharing a backyard with Ted Kaczynski, the man widely known as the Unabomber. She was featured in Netflix¿s Unabomber: In His Own Words where she discussed her family¿s role in Ted¿s capture.
Her narrative nonfiction debut, Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber has been covered in publications such as Elle, New York Post, Slate, A & E True Crime, Oxygen True Crime, 5280, and in podcasts including The Last Podcast on the Left, True Crime Garage, Once Upon a Crime, LA Not So Confidential, Mind Over Murder, and True Murder.

She recently was shortlisted for the CrimeCon True Crime Awards for ¿Best New True Crime Author.¿ Other accolades include a 2022 PenCraft Book Award for literary excellence in Nonfiction/Memoir, a 2022 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book award for Notable Indie, and first place winner of the Firebird Book Awards in Memoir/Nonfiction.
Jamie holds a BA in visual communications and spent the first half of her career in finance. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband, three children, and two cats.

A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, sharing their Montana land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder-and Gehring's investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood by answering the questions, why, how?