Notorious domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber,” showed no remorse for his nationwide bomb blast that killed three people and injured 23 others.
He died Saturday at age 81 in a North Carolina federal prison, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed. His cause of death was not immediately known.
Kaczynski orchestrated 16 bombings during a 17-year reign of terror and was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole when he was finally caught in 1996.
But a letter revealed in 2018 revealed that he did not regret his bombing campaign for a single moment.
He wrote a letter to a love interest from his prison cell questioning his abhorrent violence, but insisted it was justified.
Notorious domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, also known as the ‘Unabomber’, showed no remorse over his bomb blast that killed three people and injured 23 others
He died Saturday at age 81 in a North Carolina federal prison, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed. His cause of death was not immediately known
“Do I feel my actions were justified? To that I can only give you a qualified yes,” the letter read New York daily news.
Kaczynski’s built the explosives he used in the mail bombs in a primitive cabin in Montana’s western forest.
He was finally captured in 1996 after a years-long manhunt and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
And Kaczynski was convicted on May 4, 1998, of his 16 mail bombs he sent between 1978 and 1995.
He received four life sentences plus 30 years from a California federal judge and was only spared the death penalty by pleading guilty to murder.
The genius who went mad won a scholarship to Harvard when he was just 16 and was working as a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley.
But he gave up his career in 1971 to live as a recluse in a remote cabin in Montana.
A few years later, he wrote a manifesto denouncing modern technology and launched a package bomb campaign in 1978, starting at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Kaczynski orchestrated 16 bombings during a 17-year reign of terror and was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole when he was finally caught in 1996
But while in prison, he revealed that he did not regret a single moment of his bombing and told a love interest that his actions were justified.
The terrorist killed three and wounded 23 by sending explosives across America. Pictured: An FBI reproduction of one of Kaczynski’s bombs
Kaczynski later targeted colleges in Utah, Tennessee, California, and Michigan, as well as airlines.
The first fatal accident occurred in December 1985 in Sacramento, California, where 38-year-old Hugh Scrutton was killed by an explosive device left outside his computer store.
In December 1994, Thomas Mosser, a PR executive, was killed by a package bomb delivered to his home in New Jersey.
And in April 1995, a California timber lobbyist, Gilbert Murray, was killed in his Sacramento office when he opened a letter containing a bomb.
Kaczynski continued his indiscriminate rampage for 18 years, until his 35,000-word manifesto “Industrial Society and Its Future” was published in September 1995 in the Washington Post and The New York Times.
Only then did the Unabomber’s brother, David Kaczynski, recognize his writing style and report him to the FBI.
A raid on his remote cabin in Montana found evidence of his writings, explosive material and a yet-to-be-delivered bomb.
Kaczynski believed he was part of a “revolution” and disliked “elite” scientists, female activists, liberals, and “politically correct types.”
Kaczynski was eventually captured living a hermit-like life in the Montana wilderness after retreating to a lonely cabin.
Kaczynski was transferred to the North Carolina Federal Penitentiary Medical Facility after spending two decades in a Colorado federal Supermax prison
And he made no apologies for his actions, which killed three people and injured 23 others.
The Unabomber’s deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans shipped packages and boarded planes years before the September 11 attacks and the anthrax mail.
In July 1995, he virtually stopped air traffic on the west coast.
Kaczynski had been transferred to the North Carolina federal prison medical facility after spending two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado.