Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, 83, ‘died by SUICIDE’ in North Carolina federal prison cell
- Kaczynski was found dead in his cell at a federal prison in North Carolina
- He died by suicide, according to sources familiar with the situation
Domestic terrorist “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski “died by suicide” in his federal prison cell, according to insiders familiar with the situation.
Kaczynski was found dead in his cell at a North Carolina federal prison around 8 a.m. He turned 81 years old.
While the formal cause of death has not been disclosed, sources say he died by suicide, the New York Times.
Ted Kaczynski (pictured) was behind a 17-year bomb explosion that killed three people and injured 23 others
After committing 16 bombings during a 17-year reign of terror, Kaczynski was serving life without the possibility of parole when he was finally caught in 1996.
Kaczynski was captured after years of manhunt led him to a primitive cabin in Montana’s western forest where he built the explosives that killed three people and wounded 23 others between 1978 and 1995.
He had been transferred to the North Carolina Federal Penitentiary Medical Facility after spending two decades in a Colorado federal Supermax prison.
Kaczynski was a Harvard-educated mathematician who later retreated to the Montana wilderness after coming to believe that technology would mean the end of civilization.
He enacted a sinister plan to detonate explosives at universities and airports, which he would often mail to his victims.
Years before the September 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the deadly homemade bombs of the Unabomber changed the way Americans shipped packages and boarded planes, virtually shutting down air traffic on the West Coast in July 1995.
He published an extensive 35,000-word manifesto called “Industrial Society and Its Future,” in which he argued that modern society was plagued by the increasing role of technology in everyday life.
While the fear he sparked led The Washington Post and The New York Times to make the agonizing decision to publish the manifesto in September 1995, it ultimately led to his downfall.
Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the bizarre belief system in the tome and tipped off the FBI.
The tip led to the end of the nation’s longest manhunt, and in April 1996, authorities found him in a 10-by-15-foot wooden cabin outside Lincoln, Montana.