Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” died in a North Carolina federal prison, a corrections services spokesman said Saturday.
Kaczynski was found dead around 8:00 a.m. at a federal prison in North Carolina. The cause of death was not immediately known.
“Unabomber” was transferred to the federal prison medical center in North Carolina after spending two decades in a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado for a series of bombings against scientists.
Ted Kaczynski was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after his 1996 arrest at the primitive cabin where he lived in western Montana. He pleaded guilty to causing 16 explosions that killed three people and injured 23 others in various parts of the country between 1978 and 1995.
Years before the 9/11 attacks and anthrax-laced letter-sending, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs disrupted the way Americans shipped packages and boarded planes, even virtually ending air travel on the coast. west in July 1995.
He forced The Washington Post, along with The New York Times, to make the decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which asserted that modern society and technology were leading to a feeling of helplessness and alienation.
But this led to his downfall. Kaczynski’s brother, David, and his wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the tone of the treaty and alerted the FBI, which had been hunting the “Unabomber” for years in the country’s longest and most expensive manhunt.
In April 1996, authorities found him in a 10-by-12-foot plywood and canvas cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, which was filled with newspapers, an encoded journal, explosive ingredients, and two rigged bombs.
As a criminal mastermind, “Unabomber” has earned his share of supporters and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau.
Once revealed as a wild-eyed, long-haired, long-bearded hermit who endured Montana winters in a one-room cabin, Kaczynski seemed to many more a pathetic loner than a romantic anti-hero.
Source: TSF
