Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber” who went on a 17-year bombing spree targeting scientists, was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday morning (June 10). He was 81.
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‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, Who Went On 17-Year Bombing Spree, Found Dead In Prison Cell At 81
On Saturday, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons was quoted in a U.S. Department of Justice news release, and said that Kacyznski, who was arrested on April 3, 1996 following his series of bombings, was found unresponsive in his cell just after midnight.
The release added that staff “immediately initiated life-saving measures” and they ended up transporting Kaczynski to a local hospital. Shortly after his arrival, he was pronounced dead around 8 a.m. Kaczynski’s cause of death has not yet been released.
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It is also reported that at the time of Kaczynski’s death, he was incarcerated in eastern North Carolina, at the U.S. Bureau of Prison’s FMC Butner medical center. He had been there following a transfer in December 2021. Prior to his transfer, he was serving a life sentence at a federal supermax prison in Colorado, called ADX Florence.
Before being captured in 1996, Kaczynski, who was a Harvard-trained mathematician and former UC Berkeley math professor, had gone on a mail bombing spree from 1978 to 1995. He would send homemade bombs to the victims. He targeted anyone who had helped make advancements in technology. Altogether, he is responsible for killing three people and injuring 24 others.
Nearly two decades after being on the run for his crimes, police learned that Kaczynski living in the backwoods of Montana in a cabin, made of 10x14ft plywood and tarpaper. It is reported that he had been living there since the 1970s.
Officials were told of his whereabouts after his brother, David Kaczynski, and his wife, Linda Patrik, turned him into the FBI. The “Unabomber” went on to plead guilty to his charges of mailing an explosive device with the intent to kill or injure, and use of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence, plus transportation of an explosive with intent to kill or injure.
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