(Washington) Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in a United States federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Kaczynski was found dead around 8 a.m. in a federal prison in North Carolina. The cause of death was not immediately known.
He had been transferred to the North Carolina Federal Prison Medical Facility after spending two decades in a Supermax federal prison in Colorado for a series of bombings targeting scientists.
Kaczynski had been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole since his 1996 arrest at the cabin where he lived in western Montana. He pleaded guilty to setting off 16 explosions that killed three people and injured 23 others in various parts of the United States between 1978 and 1995.