Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber, Found Dead In North Carolina Prison Cell.
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was found dead in his prison cell, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His cause of death was not immediately known.
Kaczynski, 81, known for orchestrating a series of bombings over a roughly 20-year stretch before being caught, was pronounced dead on Saturday when he was found by employees of the North Carolina prison where he was being held, according to ABC News.
Three people died over the course of his 16 bombings, and was discovered after a family member recognized his writing as similar to the Unabomber’s manifesto.
According to the FBI, Kaczynski “mailed or hand-delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans and injured nearly two dozen more. Along the way, he sowed fear and panic, even threatening to blow up airliners in flight.”
Kaczynski’s first attack was in 1978 but he wasn’t arrested until 1996. The attacks took place across the country, including in Illinois, Utah, Tennessee, California, Washington, and Michigan, at universities and on planes.
“On April 3, 1996, investigators arrested Kaczynski and combed his cabin. There, they found a wealth of bomb components; 40,000 handwritten journal pages that included bomb-making experiments and descriptions of Unabomber crimes; and one live bomb, ready for mailing,” the FBI explained.
He was convicted and sentenced to four life sentences in prison in 1998 and sent to a maximum security facility in Colorado.
The bomber pleaded guilty, rather than pursue an insanity plea. “I’m confident that I’m sane,” Kaczynski told Time magazine after his sentence. “I don’t get delusions and so forth.”
Kaczynski worked as a mathematics professor in the late 1960s at the University of California, Berkeley. He later resigned and lived in a remote cabin in rural Montana. He was skeptical of industrial society and detailed his critiques in a manifesto called “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which was published by the Washington Post as part of the effort to capture the then-unknown bomber. He believed that the development of technology had been harmful to humans.
Kaczynski studied at Harvard, where he was reportedly put through experimentation to see how humans handled stress, something that has been credited with being partially responsible for the development of his worldview. The experiment involved verbal abuse and humiliation.
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