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‘Unabomber’ dies in US prison at age 81 | News

Theodore Kaczynski was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a terror campaign that put universities across the country in jeopardy.

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard graduate mathematician who frequented a shack in the Montana wilderness and waged a 17-year bombing campaign that left three dead and 23 wounded, passed away on Saturday. He was 81.

Kristie Breshears, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Before being transferred to the prison’s medical facility, he had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences. plus 30 years because of a terrorist campaign that put universities across the country in jeopardy. He admitted to carrying out 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995, which left some of his victims permanently disabled.

A loner from an early age, the Harvard University graduate has targeted academics, scientists and computer shop owners, even attempting to blow up a commercial airliner in the summer. a campaign against what he believes to be the evils of modern technology. For years, he frustrated the police with no solid clues as to the killer’s identity.

The Unabomber’s deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded planes, even nearly shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

He forced The Washington Post, along with The New York Times, to make the painful decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, which claimed that society and technology Modernity is leading to feelings of helplessness and alienation.

But it led to his undo. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the tone of the treatise and alerted the FBI, which had been searching for the Unabomber for years in the nation’s longest and most expensive manhunt.

In April 1996, authorities found him in a 10-by-14-foot (three by four meters) plywood and oil-paper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana filled with magazines, a diary encrypted, explosive components and two completed bombs.

An elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber is widely shared and compared to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau.

But once revealed to be a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and a beard who weathered the Montana winters in a one-room tent, Kaczynski made many seem like a pathetic loner. rather than a romantic anti-hero.



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