2023-06-10 20:07:00
Ted Kaczynisky before appearing in federal court in Helena, Montana, in April 1996. John Youngbear
He was found guilty of murdering three people and injuring more than 20 after an alleged crusade that he started against technology and industrialized society.
10 jun 2023 . Updated at 8:41 p.m.
Ted Kaczynski, also know as Unabomber, has been found dead in his Colorado prison cell, in which he was serving eight life sentences. The Unabomber became known for carrying out a series of letter bombings over a period of nearly 20 years, from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s.
Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He displayed exceptional talent in mathematics from an early age and was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16. Kaczynski graduated from this prestigious educational center in 1962. He later earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He later became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught the same academic discipline.
But everything changed in 1969. At the age of 27, Kaczynski abandoned his academic career and moved to an isolated cabin in Montana. During this time, he began to develop a deep dislike for modern technology and industrialized society. He developed an extremist ideology and decided to put it into practice.
The seventies arrive and Unabomber is born. Kaczynski began mailing bombs to various people and organizations. Its main targets were people related to technology, such as scientists, engineers and company executives. The package bombs were meticulously designed and caused the death of three people, as well as numerous injuries.
Kaczynski continued to send letters to the media and prominent figures, expressing his warped vision of modern society. He continued with his terrorist activity, which he tried to justify with elaborate texts where he described the reasons for his criminal activity.
In 1996, Kaczynski’s brother David recognized his writing style in the manifesto and alerted authorities, leading to his arrest at his Montana cabin. At trial, Kaczynski was found mentally competent to stand trial and pleaded guilty to all charges related to the bombings. In 1998, Kaczynski was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Currently, he was serving his sentence in a high-security prison in Colorado.
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