On June 10th, Ted Kaczynski, once the feared Unabomber, was reported dead, a spokesperson for the Bureau Of Prisons told the Associated Press. He was 81 when he died, and was found dead at 8 a.m.
In the beginning, Ted Kaczynski’s rudimentary bombs did nothing to bring attention to him. But soon enough, the failed attempts became deadly. His sophisticated weapons were made out of easily accessible materials but were highly damaging.
The Unabomber eluded investigators for 18 years. He sanded and polished his fingerprints off of surfaces, peeled battery skins off to hide the location they were purchased from, and left false clues for officers to follow. He even went as far as to put hairs from a bathroom in between the tapes in a bomb.
However, the terrorist who killed 3 people and injured around 23 people was captured in 1996.
In his writing, Kaczynski referred to himself as “FC,” short for “Freedom Club.” He also used first person plural to give the illusion that he was a group of people working together.
Back in 1985, Hugh Scratton, the owner of a computer store in Sacramento, California, became the first victim of Kaczynski’s lethal bombs. And then in the years 1994 and 1995, Thomas Mosser and California Forestry Assn. President Gilbert were killed by opening a package from an unknown source.
His victims usually were people who worked in technology. “People with advanced degrees aren’t as smart as they think they are,” the Unabomber wrote. “If you’d had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world and you wouldn’t have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source,” wrote Kaczynski to Professor David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale.
In the end, it was his brother who turned him in. Ted had estranged himself from his family, so the only times his brother heard from him were when Kaczynski sent fearful letters on technology to him. When one of the Unabomber’s writings was published, his brother, David, noticed the similarities between the work and the letters, and ultimately sent the FBI a tip on his brother.
On January 21, 1998, Kaczynski pleaded guilty, preventing a death sentence.
In the beginning, Ted Kaczynski’s rudimentary bombs did nothing to bring attention to him. But soon enough, the failed attempts became deadly. His sophisticated weapons were made out of easily accessible materials but were highly damaging.
The Unabomber eluded investigators for 18 years. He sanded and polished his fingerprints off of surfaces, peeled battery skins off to hide the location they were purchased from, and left false clues for officers to follow. He even went as far as to put hairs from a bathroom in between the tapes in a bomb.
However, the terrorist who killed 3 people and injured around 23 people was captured in 1996.
In his writing, Kaczynski referred to himself as “FC,” short for “Freedom Club.” He also used first person plural to give the illusion that he was a group of people working together.
Back in 1985, Hugh Scratton, the owner of a computer store in Sacramento, California, became the first victim of Kaczynski’s lethal bombs. And then in the years 1994 and 1995, Thomas Mosser and California Forestry Assn. President Gilbert were killed by opening a package from an unknown source.
His victims usually were people who worked in technology. “People with advanced degrees aren’t as smart as they think they are,” the Unabomber wrote. “If you’d had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world and you wouldn’t have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source,” wrote Kaczynski to Professor David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale.
In the end, it was his brother who turned him in. Ted had estranged himself from his family, so the only times his brother heard from him were when Kaczynski sent fearful letters on technology to him. When one of the Unabomber’s writings was published, his brother, David, noticed the similarities between the work and the letters, and ultimately sent the FBI a tip on his brother.
On January 21, 1998, Kaczynski pleaded guilty, preventing a death sentence.
