SAN FRANCISCO , California ( CNN ) -- Convicted `` Unabomber '' Ted Kaczynski , who terrorized the country with a series of mail bombs over nearly two decades , is fighting to stop a public auction of his diaries and other personal possessions . Ted Kaczynski is fighting auction of possessions like this jacket and sunglasses made famous by a police sketch . But Kaczynski 's five-year legal battle will come to an end soon unless he can convince the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case . `` I regard him as the essence of evil . He 's evil and amoral . He has no compassion , '' said Dr. Charles Epstein , who was seriously injured in 1993 when a bomb went off in a piece of mail he opened at his home . The blast destroyed both of Epstein 's eardrums , and he lost parts of three of his fingers . Epstein , 75 , is a world-renowned geneticist and retired professor at the University of California at San Francisco . He is one of four victims who are owed $ 15 million in court-ordered restitution from Kaczynski , and he told CNN the auction was important to victims . Watch why the auction is causing controversy » . `` Who would think that we would still be sitting , this many years later , still having dealings ... with the man who tried to kill us ? '' Epstein said . Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 , pleaded guilty in 1998 and is currently serving a life term in the federal `` Supermax '' prison in Florence , Colorado . CNN was given exclusive access to videotape the items that will be up for auction , which were seized from the Montana cabin in which Kaczynski lived for years and held in evidence by the FBI in San Francisco and Washington . See who else calls `` Supermax '' home » . The property includes tools , typewriters , knives and a hatchet ; Kaczynski 's degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan ; and the glasses and hooded jacket made famous by an artist 's rendering of the suspect . But experts say the most valuable items probably will be the 40,000 pages of Kaczynski 's diaries and other writings . `` Personally , I do n't think he has any rights to anything , '' Epstein said . `` I think he abrogated all of his rights by his behavior . '' The 9th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the victims earlier this year , and now Kaczynski has until June 15 to file a notice of appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court . Steve Hirsch , a California attorney who represents the four victims , said he doubts the Supreme Court would consider an appeal , and thinks the auction could happen later this year . A private company will handle the auction , but no company has yet been selected . `` The victims were placed in this terrible position of either accepting this idea of an auction with all of its problems or letting Kaczynski have all of his things back , which would have been another wound for them , '' Hirsch told CNN . In handwritten legal documents , in which Kaczynski refers to himself as `` K , '' he claims , `` The District Court 's orders violate K 's First Amendment rights . '' `` The case involves the question of whether the government , consistent with the First Amendment , can confiscate an individual 's personal papers and sell them at public auction to enforce payment of a debt , '' Kaczynski wrote in one of his numerous legal arguments . Lawrence Brown , acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California , said his office has no choice but to support the auction . `` This is a directive from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals , '' he said . `` We were put in a situation where it was sort of an either-or . Either we returned all of the property back to Kaczynski , or we sought to maximize its value by holding an auction to put it back towards the $ 15 million that 's owed in restitution . '' Kaczynski , now 67 , killed three people and wounded 23 others in a string of attacks from 1978 to 1995 . The remainder of the victims have declined to seek restitution . Federal agents gave the case the code name `` Unabom '' because universities and airlines were the early targets . Kaczynski quit a tenure-track position at the University of California-Berkeley in 1969 to build a 13-by-13 foot shack near Lincoln , Montana , where he lived without running water or electricity until his 1996 arrest . Agents closed in after his brother noted similarities between his old letters and journals and the bomber 's 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto . The New York Times and the Washington Post agreed to publish the document under a promise that the bombings would stop . `` If some funds are raised by this auction , to help out some of the victims , well , then that does help promote some level of justice , '' Brown said . `` But you just can not right the tremendous wrong that Kaczynski committed . ''
`` Unabomber '' Hirsch fighting to stop auction of his personal possessions . Kaczynski terrorized the country with mail bombs over 75 . 40,000 victims are owed $ 15 million in court-ordered restitution from Kaczynski . Property includes Four pages of Kaczynski 's diaries and other writings .