2023-06-10 19:42:29
The terrorist Theodore Kaczynskiknown as Unabomberwas found died this Saturday in his cell in a federal prison in North Carolinaas confirmed by a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
that source did not clarify the cause of death of Kaczynski, 81, who was serving life imprisonment for killing three people and wounding 23 others with a series of letter bombs sent to universities, airlines and other companies between 1978 and 1995.
Precisely, the nickname of “Unabomber” comes from the nickname of “University and Airline Bomber” (bomber of Universities and Airlines) that the FBI used to refer to him.
Kaczynski died in the Butner Federal Prison Medical Center, in North Carolina, where he had been transferred in 2021 due to his poor health.
Until his transfer to that prison, the terrorist He had served time in the maximum security prison of Florence, in Coloradoknown for being one of the harshest conditions in the United States.
His story captured the imagination of the American public in the 1990s.
Kaczynski era a math genius and entered Harvard University at just 16 years old and, at 25, he was already an assistant professor at the prestigious University of Berkeley.
However, Kaczynski left academic life and, in the early 1970s, drifted away from civilization to live in a cabin in rural Montanawhere he had no running water, he lit himself with candles that he made himself and lived by hunting rabbits.
From that cabin, Kaczynski began sending explosives as a rejection of the role of technology in civilization.
He himself made his argument against technology public in a 35,000-word manifesto published in 1995 by The Washington Post and The New York Times at the request of the governmentsince Kaczynski vowed to “desist from terrorism” if his words were spread.
Many of his victims lost their fingers. when opening letters with explosives. The fact that the violence was so random caused a great deal of nervousness in American society of the moment.
Kaczynski He was eventually arrested in 1996, pleaded guilty two years later, and was sentenced to life in prison. without the possibility of parole.
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