Unabomber committed suicide in his cell, investigation sources say
Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, responsible for a string of bombings between 1978 and 1995 and known as ‘Unabomber’, committed suicide on Friday night into Saturday in his cell at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina, according to several sources quoted by the U.S. press.
“For security and privacy, this office does not release data on the cause of death of any inmate. The official cause of death is determined by medical examination and does not depend on the Bureau of Prisons,” a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman was quoted as saying by Fox News.
However, The New York Times has indicated that Kaczynski committed suicide and cites as sources three people with knowledge of the situation. The official information indicates that “the staff initiated resuscitation measures“The prisoner was found lifeless and was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Kaczynski, 81, was sentenced to. eight life sentences in 1998 for mailing a series of bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others.
Kaczynski was serving a life sentence for transportation of explosives with intent to kill or injure, mailing an explosive device with intent to kill or injure and use of an explosive device in connection with a crime or violence.
He studied at Harvard University and was professor of mathematics. Among his objectives were several universities such as the University of Illinois (Chicago), Northwestern University, the University of Utah (Salt Lake City), Vanderbilt University, the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Michigan and Yale University. He also attacked an American Airlines flight, the president of United Airlines and a Boeing factory.
In 2021 he was transferred from Florence Supermax Prison, Colorado, to Butner, North Carolina, and then to a federal health center in North Carolina, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office labeled it as. solitary and vindictive and is known for the publication in 1995 of the text The Industrial Society and its Futureknown as the ‘Unabomber Manifesto’, in which justified his attacks to preserve humanity and nature in the face of technology and exploitation. Its publication, made in The Washington Post y The New York Times at the urging of the authorities, eventually led to his arrest when his brother David hinted that he might be responsible.
He went to detained in 1996 in a cabin in an inaccessible region of Montana after a decades-long investigation considered the most expensive in FBI history. Newspapers, a coded diary, components for explosives and two finished bombs were found in the cabin.
“I don’t believe in anything. I don’t even believe in those who worship nature or those who worship the wild. I am perfectly prepared to throw garbage in a forest that is of no use to me. I often throw cans among the trees,” he said.
