The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, Dies at 81 in Federal Prison

The American Theodore Kaczynski, known as “Unabomber”, was found dead in the federal prison of North Carolina where he was imprisoned for life for having committed between 1978 and 1995 a series of attacks, which left three dead and more than twenty injured, American media announced on Saturday June 10, citing the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). He was 81 years old.

Called “Unabomber” by the FBI, Theodore Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, BOP spokeswoman Kristie Breshears told the Associated Press. He was found unconscious in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she reported. The cause of his death is not immediately known.

From 1978 and for eighteen years, this Harvard graduate had sent sixteen bombs, concealed in postal parcels, to various people and companies, causing a total of three deaths and twenty-three injuries. After a long hunt, he was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998.

Theodore Kaczynski had forced the Washington Postin collaboration with the New York Timesto publish in September 1995 its manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future”, which asserted that modern society and technology lead to a feeling of helplessness and alienation.