He debomb was the nickname given to American terrorist Ted Kaczynski received from the US authorities prosecuted for committing a series of attacks in the 1980s that led the FBI to follow his trail for over two decades until finally capturing him in 1996. After several years in prison, the prisoner was found lifeless in his cell on Saturday, June 10, 2023. I was 81 years old.

The life of that criminal, like that of many others, was filmed and analyzed in documentary series. One of them, Unabomber: in their own wordsis available on Netflix Ecuador.

The “Unabomber”, a Harvard graduate serial attacker who terrorized the United States for nearly two decades, dies in prison

“The man the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski He came to our attention in 1978 with the detonation of his first primitive pipe bomb at a Chicago university. Over the next 17 years, he mailed or delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans. and wounded nearly two dozen more. Along the way, he spread fear and panic, even threatening to blow up planes in mid-air.” the official FBI site picks up on the controversial character, who also boasted of being a math genius with a high IQ.

And it is that path he describes four episodes of the Netflix documentary series.

In 2017, actor Paul Bettany (Marvel Studios’ Vision) also played him for the production of 18 episodes. Manhuntwhere Sam Worthington, Lynn Collins and Cameron Britton also performed.

The capture of the Unambomber took place on April 3, 1996, when investigators arrested Kaczynski and searched his cabin. over there they found a large quantity of bomb components, 40,000 pages of handwritten journals, including bomb-making experiments and descriptions of the Unabomber’s crimes, plus a live bomb, ready to be shipped..

Since then and after his conviction in January 1998, he was in an isolated cell in a maximum security prison in Colorado (United States).