Ted Kaczynski, known as ‘The Unabomber,’ who led a 17-year bombing campaign that left three dead and 23 injured, committed suicide, The Associated Press (AP ) four people aware of the situation.
Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from terminal cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, around half past midnight on Saturday. Rescuers performed CPR and revived him before he was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that morning, they told the AP.
These people were not authorized to speak publicly about Kaczynski’s death and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Kaczynski’s death comes as the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been under heightened scrutiny for several years following the death of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who also took his own life in federal prison in 2019.
Kaczynski had been held in the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that plagued universities across the country. excited. He admitted having carried out 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995, maiming many of his victims for life.
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