The Unabomber, aka Ted Kaczynski, was discovered dead in his North Carolina prison cell on Saturday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. Kaczynski was serving a life term without the possibility of parole for a series of explosions around the United States that killed three people. He was 81.
After being transferred in 2021 from a maximum security Colorado prison due to his deteriorating health, Kaczynski, convicted for explosions targeting scientists, was detained in North Carolina.
Ted Kaczynski Death
A reason for death was not disclosed. After his arrest in 1996, Kaczynski was sent to prison, where he remained in the rustic cabin where he had been staying in western Montana. He admitted to causing 16 explosions across the country between 1978 and 1995, which claimed the lives of three persons and injured twenty-three others.
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The fatal homemade bombs that Kaczynski mailed transformed the way Americans sent parcels and boarded flights. One device, activated by altitude, went off as planned on an American Airlines flight.
Air travel and postal delivery were disrupted in 1995 when a bomb threat against a plane leaving Los Angeles at the end of the July 4 weekend caused widespread panic. The Unabomber eventually said it was all an elaborate “prank.”
The mathematician with a Harvard education ranted against the consequences of modern technology, prompting the most extensive and expensive search in American history. The FBI gave him the moniker “Unabomber” since his initial targets appeared to be schools and aircraft.
His anti-technology polemic “Industrial Society and Its Future” was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times in September 1995. After the bomber indicated he would stop his terrorist activities provided a national publication published his thesis, federal officials pushed for its publication.
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His brother David and David’s wife Linda Patrik recognized his writing style and turned him into the FBI because of the treatise. A 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper shack, where Kaczynski had been residing since the 1970s, was discovered by authorities in April 1996 outside Lincoln, Montana.
It contained journals, a secret diary, bomb-making materials, and two fully functional bombs. Kaczynski tried to get rid of his lawyers who wanted to use insanity as a defence because he disliked the thought of being seen as mentally sick. Instead of letting his lawyers argue his case, he eventually pleaded guilty.
At the behest of the victim’s families, the prosecutors disclosed Kaczynski’s private journals during the trial, in which he attributed his actions to “simply personal revenge.”
Writing on his violent thoughts, he said, “I often had fantasies of killing the kind of people I hated — i.e., government officials, police, computer scientists, the rowdy type of college students who left their beer cans in the arboretum, etc., etc., etc.”
Hugh Scrutton, the owner of a computer rental company, Thomas Mosser, an advertising executive, and Gilbert Murray, a lobbyist for the forestry sector, were all murdered by Kaczynski. In June 1993, bombs injured Charles Epstein, a geneticist from California, and David Gelernter, a computer expert from Yale University.
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