Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, better known as ‘unabomber‘, has been found dead in his US prison cell where he was serving a life sentence. Responsible for a chain of letter bomb attacks between 1978 and 1995, the terrorist was 81 years old. Although there is still no official cause of death, prison authorities are investigating a possible suicideaccording to the American chain ‘ABC News’.

Kaczynski was sentenced to eight life sentences in 1998 for mailing bombs to universities, airlines and businesses between 1978 and 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 others. His nickname ‘Unabomber’ came precisely from the nickname of “University and Airline Bomber” that the FBI used to refer to him. He was arrested in 1996 after an investigation that spanned decades and is considered the most expensive in FBI history.

Kaczynski has died at the Butner federal prison medical center in North Carolina, where he had been transferred in 2021 due to his poor health. Before, he had served time in the maximum security prison of Florence, in Colorado, one of the prisons with the harshest conditions in the US.

His story captured the imagination of the American public in the 1990s. Kaczynski was a math genius who entered Harvard University at just 16 years old and, at 25, was already an assistant professor at the prestigious Berkeley University. However, he left academic life and, in the early 1970s, left civilization to live in a cabin In a rural area of ​​Montana, where he had no running water, he lit himself with candles that he made himself and lived by hunting rabbits.

From there, Kaczynski began to send explosives as a rejection of the role of technology in civilization. He himself made public his allegation against technology in a 35,000-word manifesto published in 1995 by ‘The Washington Post’ and ‘The New York Times’ at the request of the Government, since Kaczynski promised to “desist from terrorism” if the words were disseminated. of the. His posting ultimately led to his arrest when his sister pointed out that he might be responsible.

Among his objectives were several universities such as the University of Illinois (Chicago), Northwestern University, the University of Utah (Salt Lake City), Vanderbilt University, the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Michigan or the University of Yale. He also attacked an American Airlines flight, the president of United Airlines and a Boeing factory.

Many of his victims lost their fingers from opening the letters with explosives and the fact that the violence was so random caused great nervousness in American society at that time. Kaczynski was eventually arrested in 1996, pleaded guilty two years later, and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.