‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski Found Dead In His Prison Cell

Known as the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, a man sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for a series of bombings that claimed three lives across the United States, was discovered dead in his penitentiary cell in North Carolina.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons officially confirmed the demise of Kaczynski, who was 81.

After being transferred in 2021 from a maximum-security correctional facility in Colorado due to his deteriorating health, Kaczynski, who was found guilty of orchestrating a sequence of bombings targeting scientists, had been detained in North Carolina. The exact cause of his death has not yet been disclosed.

Following his arrest in 1996 at an austere cabin in western Montana, Kaczynski had been serving his sentence. He pleaded guilty to constructing and deploying 16 explosive devices that caused fatalities for three individuals and inflicted injuries on 23 others throughout various locations in the country between 1978 and 1995.

The lethal makeshift bombs, which Kaczynski dispatched via mail, included one triggered by altitude that detonated successfully aboard an American Airlines flight. These incidents significantly altered the way in which Americans approached the mailing of packages and the boarding of airplanes.

In 1995, a threat was issued by Kaczynski, intending to blow up an aircraft departing from Los Angeles before the conclusion of the Fourth of July weekend, consequently causing havoc in air travel and mail delivery. Subsequently, the Unabomber claimed it was merely a “prank.”

Being a Harvard-educated mathematician, Kaczynski vehemently protested against the consequences of advanced technology and became the target of the nation’s most prolonged and expensive manhunt. The Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned him the moniker “Unabomber” due to his initial targets appearing to be universities and airlines.

In September 1995, responding to the bomber’s demand, The Washington Post and The New York Times jointly published his anti-technology manifesto, titled “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Federal authorities urged the publication of the manifesto after the perpetrator asserted that he would cease his acts of terrorism if a reputable national publication disseminated his treatise.

{Matzav.com}