Just In: Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Chicago-area native who retreated to a shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday at age 81.
Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.
But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the “Unabomber” for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt. Even in his own journals, Kaczynski came across as not a committed revolutionary, but a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances.
The FBI called him the “Unabomber” because his early targets seemed to be universities and airlines. An altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 went off as planned aboard an American Airlines flight; a dozen people aboard suffered from smoke inhalation. When Kaczynski stepped up his bombs and letters to newspapers and scientists in 1995, experts speculated the “Unabomber” was jealous of the attention being paid to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Swanson in turn passed them along to former FBI behavior science expert Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote them had also probably written the “Unabomber’s” manifesto.
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Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in federal prisonTheodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons tells The Associated Press that Kaczynski was found dead around 8 a.m. at a federal prison in North Carolina. A cause of death was not immediately known. He had been moved to the federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after spending two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado for a series of bombings that targeted scientists. Kaczynski was serving life without the possibility of parole following his 1996 arrest at the primitive cabin where he was living in western Montana.
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Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in federal prisonTheodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison
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Theodore ‘Ted' Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,' dies in federal prisonHe was serving life without the possibility of parole following his 1996 arrest for a series of bombings that targeted scientists.
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Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has died in federal prisonTheodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has died in federal prison.
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Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in federal prisonTheodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.
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Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has died in federal prisonTheodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and inj…
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