Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack within the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing marketing campaign that killed three folks and injured 23 others, died on Saturday. He was 81.
Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died on the federal jail medical centre in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, informed The Related Press. He was discovered unresponsive in his cell Saturday morning and was pronounced useless about 8am, she mentioned. A reason for dying was not instantly identified.
Earlier than his switch to the jail medical facility, he had been held within the federal supermax jail in Florence, Colorado, since Might 1998, when he was sentenced to 4 life sentences plus 30 years for a marketing campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted to committing 16 bombings from 1978 to 1995, completely maiming a number of of his victims.
Al Jazeera’s Alex Baird reviews.
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