2024-04-03 23:06:11
The American terrorist Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, killed a total of three people in sixteen bombings between 1978 and 1995. The police caught him exactly 28 years ago, on April 3, 1996, in his primitive cabin in Montana. Two years later he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Teachers called Kaczynski a mathematical prodigy. At school, he had an IQ of 167, so he skipped a grade. But years later, he decided to escape the modern world and live in an abandoned cabin as a hermit. His obsession went so far that he became one of America’s most notorious terrorists under the nickname the Unabomber.
Kaczynski was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after his arrest in 1996. He eluded the police for 17 long years. His brother contributed to the capture. Kaczynski admitted that between 1978 and 1995 he planted 16 bombs in various parts of the country, the explosions of which killed three people and injured 23 others.
He motivated his actions by aversion to industrial civilization and love for nature. The bombs exploded in the offices and homes of scientists, one in an airplane, in the offices of logging companies and other institutions that, in Kaczynski’s opinion, threatened nature and the environment and abused technical progress.
Kaczynski died last June at the age of eighty-one. He was found dead in a federal prison in North Carolina.