He died in a US federal prison Theodore “Ted” Kaczynskiknown as “Unabomber,” a mathematician who retired to a cabin in Montana after graduating from Harvard and sent explosive packages to several people over the course of about 17 years, resulting in three deaths and over 20 injuries.
Why Theodore Kaczynski was called the Unabomber
June 10, 2023
This was reported to the Associated Press by Kristie Breshears, spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Kaczynski was found dead around 8 a.m. at Butner Federal Penitentiary in North Carolina. He was 81 years old. The cause of death was not disclosed at this time.
Kaczynski was transferred to the North Carolina federal prison medical facility after spending two decades in a maximum-security prison in Colorado, Florence’s Supermax prison, where he was sent in May 1998 when he served four life sentences plus 30 years was convicted for a terror campaign that alarmed universities across the country.
After his 1996 arrest at the cabin where he lived in western Montana, Kaczynski was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. He pleaded guilty to causing 16 explosions in different parts of the country between 1978 and 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 others.