Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is found dead in a prison cell in the United States

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June 10, 2023, 18:16 GMT

Updated 2 minutes ago

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Ted Kaczynski evaded capture until 1996

US media reported, citing officials, that prison officers found Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, dead in his prison cell.

Kaczynski, 81, killed three people and injured 23 others during a wave of mass mail bombings between 1978 and 1995. He later pleaded guilty to his crimes.

He was sentenced to life without parole in 1996 after evading arrest for nearly 20 years.

The Harvard-trained mathematician was eventually caught in a cabin in Montana.

Kaczynski has spent the past three decades held in prisons across the United States.

US media reported that prison guards at the North Carolina facility discovered Kaczynski’s body this morning at approximately 08:00 local time.

Prior to suffering poor health that led to his transfer to the facility in December 2021, he had been held at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998.

Kaczynski was a man who fascinated America for decades, and became the focus of numerous television documentaries.

His violent campaign left a number of his victims permanently disfigured.

But his crimes were exposed after he forced the Washington Post and New York Times to publish his violent and turbulent manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, in September 1995.

They agreed to print the manifesto after Kaczynski said he would end his campaign if a national newspaper published his thesis.

The 35,000-word anonymous document criticized modern life and claimed that technology was causing Americans to experience feelings of alienation and helplessness.

After reading the papers, Kaczynski’s brother and sister-in-law recognized the tune and alerted the FBI, which had been searching for him for years in the country’s longest-running manhunt.

In April 1996, the Harvard-trained mathematician was finally located by authorities in a 10-by-14-foot (3 by 4-meter) plywood-and-cardboard cabin outside Lincoln, Montana.

The hut was packed with magazines, coded notes, explosives and two complete bombs.

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