Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber who terrorised US for almost 20 years, died by suicide: Report
Ted Kaczynski
Ted Kaczynski—a terrorist known as the 'Unabomber' who set off a bombing spree from 1978 to 1995 killing three and injuring 23, has taken his life inside a federal prison medical centre in North Carolina, according to reports.
The incident took place early Saturday. Emergency workers rushed to Kaczynski’s cell at 12:23 am in an attempt to revive him in the prisonbut were unsuccessful.
He was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
According to the AP news agency, the 81-year-old was suffering from late-stage cancer.
Named Unabomber by the FBI because his early targets seemed to be universities and airlines, Kaczynski was a Harvard-educated mathematician.
He has been locked up since May 1998when he was sentenced to four life sentences, plus 30 years for the campaign of terror that kept universities nationwide on edge.
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He confessed to carrying out 16 bombings in the 17 years, permanently injuring several of his victims.
Notorious federal prison
The understaffed federal prison is already in the spotlight following the self-inflicted death of another high-profile inmate sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly hanged himself in 2019.
The death even spurred a long manifesto from Kaczynski who speculated that Epstein was murdered—a claim that was fast gaining ground until Justice Department officials ruled it a suicide.
Kaczynski was previously in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a federal medical centre in Butner, North Carolina, in December 2021 due to poor health.
Terrorised US for 20 years
In 1995, before he was identified as the Unabomber, he coerced newspapers to publish a long manuscript he had written, saying the killings would continue otherwise. Both the New York Times and Washington Post published the 35,000-word manifesto later that year at the recommendation of the US Attorney General and the director of the FBI.
He had remained scot-free for almost 20 years until undone by his own family members. His brother and sister-in-law were the ones who identified him after growing suspicious of his activities.
Kaczynski's sister-in-law, Linda Patrik, and brother David were one of the first to identify Kaczynski as the Unabomber after reading the Unabomber's writing.
They then tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the Unabomber for years in the nation's longest, costliest manhunt.
Also see |Ted Kaczynski's life in pictures: A Harvard Maths prodigy turned reclusive murderer
In April 1996, authorities found him in a small plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.
(With inputs from agencies)
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