Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ who attacked Modern Life. dies at 81

Ted Kaczynski, the bomber, has died.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated math professor who launched a deadly bombing campaign from a hut in rural Montana and gained notoriety as the "Unabomber," has passed away. He was 81.

Around 12:25 on Saturday morning, Kaczynski was discovered unconscious in his cell at the Federal Medical Centre in Butner, North Carolina, according to a statement from the agency.

"Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures," the bureau said. "Staff requested emergency medical services (EMS) and life-saving efforts continued. Mr Kaczynski was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel."

Ted Kaczynski, what's the story?

After entering a guilty plea in 1998 for sending mail bombs that resulted in the deaths of three persons and the injury of 23 others between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski began serving eight life sentences.

The FBI says on its website that it spent nearly two decades attempting to find him while battling a killer who was sending untraceable explosives to arbitrary targets after sending the first one to a Chicago university in 1978.

In 1979, an FBI-led task team was established to look into the "UNABOM" case, which stands for university, airline, and bombing. Over 150 full-time detectives eventually joined the task force.

In 1996, Kaczynski was taken into custody at a tiny, out-of-the-way cottage in western Montana.

According to the bureau, Kaczynski was transferred to the federal hospital in North Carolina in 2021. Before being moved to FMC Butner on December 14, 2021, he had been detained at Supermax in Florence, Colorado.

Kaczynski defended his murderous campaign in the document by claiming that protecting people and the environment from technology and exploitation gave him moral authority.

"I believe in nothing," Kaczynski wrote. "I don’t even believe in the cult of nature-worshipers or wilderness-worshipers. (I am perfectly ready to litter in parts of the woods that are of no use to me – I often throw cans in logged-over areas.)"

Kaczynski talked of strong hate for people in his notebooks, which were widely mentioned in the sentencing statement.

Since Kaczynski's arrest in April 1996 as a result of a tip from his brother David, the family has maintained that the writings were the product of a paranoid schizophrenic, not a murderer with a cold, calculated heart. The prosecution was able to drop its desire for the death penalty and allow a plea deal after a federal prison psychiatrist concurred.