Colorful New Clues Lead To Possible Sighting

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Cops say San Diego is an animal rights extremist. Reportedly, he targets corporations suspected to have ties with animal testing labs.

We've shown you the latest clues in the hunt for Daniel San Diego: his distinctive tattoos.

They say he has very distinctive tattoos that cover his chest, back, and abdomen. The FBI says the tattoo on San Diego's chest is a round, colored tattoo that resembles a valley or plain on fire.

Sources also describe the tattoo on his lower stomach as a black and white picture of a burning building. The tattoo on his lower back is another burning building and right next to it, officials say, is a lone tree.

An AMW viewer recognized them and called our hotline, and thanks to the tipster, the FBI believes San Diego was recently in Pulaski, Va. Pulaski is a small town, just 40 miles north of the North Carolina border. The FBI believes that San Diego passed through the hamlet, but is most likely not living there.

Most recently, the FBI added San Diego to their Most Wanted Terrorist List. Now, sharing a spot on the list with Usama Bin Laden, San Diego marks the first domestic terrorist to be added to the FBI's list. This, teamed with a $250,000 reward for information leading to the capture of San Diego, shows the FBI's dedication towards capturing this terrorist.

The "Boy Next Door" Becomes Fugitive

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The FBI says the man in this surveillance video captured outside the Chiron Corporation before the bomb went off is San Diego.

His landlord remembers San Diego as very nice and personable. San Diego told her that he was starting a new business venture. He claimed to have a recipe for vegan marshmallows, made without gelatin. She said that San Diego appeared to have his act together, and never mentioned anything to suggest that he held radical views about animal rights.

But the FBI says it was all an act. Agents say that in the early morning hours of Thursday, August 28, 2003, San Diego showed his true colors. They say he drove to the offices of the Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, California, and placed two pipe-bombs outside the building. The first went off around 2:55 a.m., followed by the second at 4:00 a.m. Both bombs caused damage to the building, but luckily no one was injured. 

Then, on September 26, 2003, the FBI says San Diego struck again. Police say this time he targeted the Shaklee Corporation in Pleasanton, California. The bomb exploded at at 3:22 a.m. and caused damage to the building. FBI agents say no one was injured, but they believe that the bomb was intended to hurt someone.  Agents say when the bomb exploded it sent nails flying through the air at a speed of 100 miles an hour. 

The FBI says that San Diego planted the bombs because he believed the companies he targeted had ties with labs that use animals for testing medications and other products. 

After each of the attacks, an animal rights group called "The Revolutionary Cells-Liberation Brigade" posted an e-mail taking responsibility for the bombings.  The group also warned that if Chiron and Shaklee didn't sever their ties with animal testing labs, the bombs would increase in size, and that the employees' homes and families would become targets. 

Agents say they cannot directly connect San Diego to the e-mails, but they do know he has ties to the group that sent them. Agents began tracking San Diego's every move, hoping that he would led them to where the bombs were made, or to other people involved. Agents believe that San Diego realized that he was being followed, because on October 6, 2003, he parked his car in downtown San Francisco, walked away, and never returned. He has not been seen since.

FBI: He Went From Making Marshmallows To Making Bombs

Daniel Andreas San Diego grew up in San Rafel, California, where friends remember him as very smart and fun to be around. He attended Terra Linda High School in San Rafel and took classes at the College of Marin. When San Diego was in high school, he worked at the school's radio station. He liked listening to heavy metal and rock music.  San Diego was a typical high school kid, but friends say his behavior slowly began to change.

He told friends that he had watched a program on MTV called "Straight Edge," and that he was very interested in the movement portrayed in the show. Followers of the straight edge philosophy are adamant about not drinking, smoking or doing drugs. Police say that straight edge by itself is harmless, but some members with extreme views begin to branch off the main group. Among them are animal rights activists.

In 1988, according to the FBI, San Diego began hanging out with some extremist animal rights activists. He became a vegan, someone who does not eat or use anything that contains animal products. Friends say that San Diego cut his hair, stopped drinking and began wearing a jacket that said 'VEGAN DEATH CREW" on the back.