Convicted “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday where he was serving eight consecutive life terms without parole.
Convicted domestic terrorist Theodore"Ted" Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber”, has died in a United States federal prison at age 81.
The Harvard-educated mathematician ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995. Mr Kaczynski mailed or hand-delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that resulted in the deaths of Hugh Scrutton, Thomas J. Mosser and Gilbert Brent Murray.
His victims were primarily professors and students on several university campuses across the United States as well as the high-profile president of United Airlines Percy Wood. The Washington Post published the manifesto in September 1995 following pressure from the FBI and then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
Upon reading the letter in the Washington Post, Mr Kaczynski's brother David recognised the writing style and reported his suspicions to the FBI.
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