Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker (62 page)

Me at age twenty-one, with my mother in Stockton, California, 1984

With bride Bonnie Vitello at our wedding reception, June 1987

My hacking partner Lewis De Payne, around the time he and I first met Justin Petersen, aka Eric Heinz, 1992
(Virgil Kasperavicius)

Justin Petersen aka Eric Heinz while working as an FBI informant trying to gather evidence against me, 1992
(Count Zero aka John Lester)

The Soundex, or driver’s license image, that I obtained of Eric Heinz while he was tailing me

The Kinko’s location in Studio City, California, that the DMV investigators chased me from on Christmas Eve, 1992

The cash register building housing the Denver law firm where I worked; in the foreground is the apartment building where I lived
(Nick Arnott)

In Denver while on the run, April 1993, age twenty-nine

The apartment in Seattle where I was raided by the Secret Service and Seattle police, 1994
(Shellee Hale)

Mug shot on the day of capture, February 15, 1995, Raleigh, North Carolina

My prison ID card from Lompoc FCI, subject of international press after eBay yanked the item for violating “community standards,” vastly raising interest—and raising the value to $4,000

Demonstration by my supporters outside the Miramax offices in 1998 protesting the depiction of me in their feature film
Takedown (Emmanuel Goldstein,
2600
magazine)

Alex Kasperavicius posting a “Free Kevin” sticker at the Mobil gas station across the street from the Metropolitan Detention Center on my thirty-fifth birthday, August 6, 1998
(Emmanuel Goldstein,
2600
magazine)