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Ted Kaczynski, who was the "Unabomber", sentenced to life in the USA for 16 bomb explosions, dies in prison

2023-06-11 16:00:28Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Ted Kaczynski, who was the "Unabomber", sentenced to life in the USA
Ted Kaczynski

Who was the "Unabomber", the man who changed the way Americans shipped packages and boarded airplanes

Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber" who was serving a life sentence for a series of bombings across the US, was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell this Saturday. The news was announced by a prison spokesman for the Associated Press news agency. He was 81 years old.

Kaczynski, who was convicted of one of the bombings that targeted scientists, was being held in North Carolina after being transferred in 2021 from a high-security prison in Colorado due to failing health. The cause of death is currently unknown.

Kaczynski was arrested in 1996. He was found in a primitive shelter in western Montana. Convicted of 16 bombings that killed 3 people and injured 23 others in various US locations between 1978 and 1995.

Kaczynski sent the bombs he made at home by mail. They included an altitude-activated explosive device that went off as planned on an American Airlines flight, changing the way Americans shipped packages and boarded planes.

A threat in 1995 to blow up a plane outside Los Angeles before the final July 4th weekend threw flights and mail into chaos. The "Unabomber" later stated that it was a "line".

The Harvard-trained mathematician rebelled against the effects of advancing technology, leading authorities on the nation's longest and most expensive manhunt. The FBI nicknamed him the "Unabomber" because his first targets seemed to be universities and airlines.

In September 1995, the Washington Post and New York Times published his anti-technology manifesto entitled "Industrial Society and Its Future." This article was printed at the request of federal authorities, after Kaczynski said he would stop being a terrorist if a national media outlet published his treatise.

It was precisely this material that landed him behind bars. His brother David and wife Linda Patrick recognized the writing and reported it to the FBI.

In April 1996, authorities found Kaczynski in Montana, outside of Lincoln, in a 14-foot plywood cabin. He had lived there since 1970. The shelter was filled with personal diaries, a coded diary, components for explosives and 2 complete bombs.

Kaczynski hated the idea of ​​being seen as mentally ill and during the trial tried to fire his lawyers when they wanted to raise an insanity defense. In the end he pleaded guilty, preventing the lawyers from continuing.

In his personal diaries, made public by the government at the request of the victims' families, Kaczynski described his motives as "mere personal revenge".

"I often fantasized about killing the people I hated, government officials, policemen, computer scientists, rowdy student types who left their beer cans in parks, etc etc," he wrote.

Kaczynski killed computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser, and lumber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray.

California geneticist Charles Epstein and Yale University computer expert David Gelernter were maimed by bombs two days apart in June 1993.


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