Ted Kaczynski, nicknamed the “Unabomber” and whose package bomb attacks traumatized the United States between 1978 and 1995, was found dead in his cell at the age of 81, US media announced Saturday, citing the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Since 1978 and for 18 years, this Harvard-graduated mathematician had sent sixteen bombs, hidden in postal packages, to various people and companies, causing a total of three deaths and 23 injuries. After a lengthy manhunt, he was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison in 1998.
The cause of his death is not yet known
According New York Timesciting the Federal Bureau of Prisons, he was found unconscious in his cell early Saturday morning and his cause of death is still unknown.
Detained for a long time at the high-security prison in Florence, Colorado – known for having housed famous inmates such as drug lord El Chapo – he was transferred in 2021 to a prison health center in North Carolina.
A brilliant mathematician turned hermit, Theodore Kaczynski had embarked on a crusade against progress and technology, making his bombs in a cabin in the mountains of northwestern Montana with no running water or electricity.
I hate technology and the modern world.
His first targets are academics and airlines, earning the assassin the nickname “Unabomber” (for “University and Airline Bomber”).
In September 1995, promising to stop sending bombs, he obtained New York Times and Washington Post who publish a long manifesto in which they express a hatred of technology and the modern world.
While reading it, a resident of the East Coast of the United States, David Kaczynski, sees in it a similarity to the ancient writings of his brother Theodore, isolated from his family for years. He then alerted the FBI and, in April 1996, allowed his arrest.
A diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia did not prevent him from being tried and later sentenced, in 1998, to life imprisonment, after pleading guilty.
Source: BFM TV
