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Theodore John Kaczynski (/ k ə ˈ z ɪ n s k i / ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ ˈ j uː n ə b ɒ m ər / ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.
Jun 10, 2023 · Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics, businessmen and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 with the...
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Jun 10, 2023 · Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has been found dead in his prison cell, federal officials confirmed to the BBC. Kaczynski, 81, killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass...
- Ted Kaczynski’s Early Life
- The Unabomber in Montana
- The Unabomber Attacks
- Unabomber Manifesto
- David Kaczynski
- Unabomber Arrested
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Theodore Kaczynski was born in Chicagoin 1942 to a working-class family of Polish ancestry. He was one of two children, along with younger brother David, who would later become involved in his older sibling’s arrest. People who attended school with Ted noted that he was a “loner” who excelled academically. After graduating early from Evergreen Park...
After leaving Berkeley, Kaczynski returned to Evergreen Park, Illinoisto live with his parents for two years before moving to a cabin he had built in the woods outside Lincoln, Montana, in 1971. With very little money, Kaczynski hoped to live self-sufficiently by teaching himself survival skills such as hunting and organic farming. He also worked o...
Kaczynski began using mail bombs sent via the U.S. Postal Service—or that he occasionally hand-delivered himself—in a series of coordinated attacks over a period of 17 years, beginning in 1978. His first target, Northwestern Universityprofessor of engineering Buckley Crist, escaped injury when a package with his return address was found in a parkin...
By then, the FBIwas already hot on Kaczynski’s trail. Based on the similarities of the devices used in the attacks, they had already linked many of them and attributed them to one perpetrator or group of perpetrators. They also believed the attacker had connections to the Chicago area and the San FranciscoBay area, which Kaczynski of course did. Th...
The manifesto’s ideas were also familiar to Kaczynski’s younger brother David, who already harbored suspicions that his brother was the Unabomber by the time he read the manifesto after it was published in September 1995. By then, the two brothers had become estranged. David went to the FBI with his suspicions, and shared with them letters he had r...
On April 3, 1996, after having a search warrant for the elder Kaczynski’s cabin authorized by a federal judge in Montana, FBI officers descended upon the rural compound. There, they found Kaczynski in a disheveled state, surrounded by bomb-making tools and parts. Later that month, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on 10 counts of illegally tr...
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Learn about the life, crimes and manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, who conducted a 17-year series of mail bomb attacks from 1978 to 1995. Find out how he was caught, sentenced and died in prison.
The man that the world would eventually know as Theodore Kaczynski came to our attention in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb at a Chicago university.
Jun 10, 2023 · Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-trained math professor who unleashed a deadly bombing campaign from a shack in rural Montana and became known as the “Unabomber,” has died, according to...
Jun 12, 2023 · Ted Kaczynski, the man known as the "Unabomber," died by suicide in his prison cell after having served more than 25 years of his life sentence, a senior law enforcement official...
