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Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, has died in federal prison at 81

  By MICHAEL BALSAMO and LINDSAY WHITEHURSTJune 10, 2023 GMT
  1 of 6
  FILE - Theodore Kaczynski looks around as U.S. Marshals prepare to take
  him down the steps at the federal courthouse to a waiting vehicle on
  June 21, 1996, in Helena, Mont. A spokesperson for the Bureau of
  Prisons told The Associated Press that Kaczynski, known as the
  “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison. The cause of death was not
  immediately known. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
  1 of 6
  FILE - Theodore Kaczynski looks around as U.S. Marshals prepare to take
  him down the steps at the federal courthouse to a waiting vehicle on
  June 21, 1996, in Helena, Mont. A spokesperson for the Bureau of
  Prisons told The Associated Press that Kaczynski, known as the
  “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison. The cause of death was not
  immediately known. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated
  mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness
  and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured
  23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.

  Branded [78]the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal
  prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a
  spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated
  Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and
  was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not
  immediately known.

  Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in
  the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when
  he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of
  terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing
  16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his
  victims.
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  Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the
  Unabomber’s deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed
  packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel
  on the West Coast in July 1995.

  He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times,
  to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his
  35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which
  claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of
  powerlessness and alienation.

  But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother, David, and David’s
  wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the
  FBI, which had been searching for the Unabomber for years in nation’s
  longest, costliest manhunt.

  Authorities in April 1996 found him in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter)
  plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled
  with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed
  bombs.

  As an elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber won his share of
  sympathizers and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry
  David Thoreau.

  But once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who
  weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as
  more of a pathetic loner than romantic anti-hero.

  Even in his own journals, Kaczynski came across not as a committed
  revolutionary but as a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances.

  “I certainly don’t claim to be an altruist or to be acting for the
  ‘good’ (whatever that is) of the human race,” he wrote on April 6,
  1971. “I act merely from a desire for revenge.”

  A psychiatrist who interviewed Kaczynski in prison diagnosed him as a
  paranoid schizophrenic.

  “Mr. Kaczynski’s delusions are mostly persecutory in nature,” Sally
  Johnson wrote in a 47-page report. “The central themes involve his
  belief that he is being maligned and harassed by family members and
  modern society.”

  Kaczynski hated the idea of being viewed as mentally ill and when his
  lawyers attempted to present an insanity defense, he tried to fire
  them. When that failed, he tried to hang himself with his underwear.

  Kaczynski eventually pleaded guilty rather than let his defense team
  proceed with an insanity defense.

  “I’m confident that I’m sane,” Kaczynski told Time magazine in 1999. “I
  don’t get delusions and so forth.”

  He was certainly brilliant.

  Kaczynski skipped two grades to attend Harvard at age 16 and had
  published papers in prestigious mathematics journals. His explosives
  were carefully tested and came in meticulously handcrafted wooden boxes
  sanded to remove possible fingerprints. Later bombs bore the signature
  “FC” for “Freedom Club.”

  The FBI called him the “Unabomber” because his early targets seemed to
  be universities and airlines. An altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in
  1979 went off as planned aboard an American Airlines flight; a dozen
  people aboard suffered from smoke inhalation.

  Kaczynski killed computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising
  executive Thomas Mosser and timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray.
  California geneticist Charles Epstein and Yale University computer
  expert David Gelernter were maimed by bombs two days apart in June
  1993.

  Mosser was killed in his North Caldwell, New Jersey, home on Dec. 10,
  1994, a day he was supposed to be picking out a Christmas tree with his
  family. His wife, Susan, found him grievously wounded by a barrage of
  razor blades, pipes and nails.

  “He was moaning very softly,” she said at Kaczynski’s 1998 sentencing.
  “The fingers on his right hand were dangling. I held his left hand. I
  told him help was coming. I told him I loved him.”

  When Kaczynski stepped up his bombs and letters to newspapers and
  scientists in 1995, experts speculated the Unabomber was jealous of the
  attention being paid to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

  A threat to blow up a plane out of Los Angeles before the end of the
  July Fourth weekend threw air travel and mail delivery into chaos. The
  Unabomber later claimed it was a “prank.”

  The Washington Post printed the Unabomber’s manifesto at the urging of
  federal authorities, after the bomber said he would desist from
  terrorism if a national publication published his treatise.

  Patrik had had a disturbing feeling about her brother-in-law even
  before seeing the manifesto and eventually persuaded her husband to
  read a copy at the library. After two months of arguments, they took
  some of Ted Kaczynski’s letters to Patrik’s childhood friend Susan
  Swanson, a private investigator in Chicago.

  Swanson in turn passed them along to former FBI behavioral science
  expert Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote them had also
  probably written the Unabomber’s manifesto.

  “It was a nightmare,” David Kaczynski, who as a child had idolized his
  older brother, said in a 2005 speech at Bennington College. “I was
  literally thinking, ‘My brother’s a serial killer, the most wanted man
  in America.’”

  Swanson turned to a corporate lawyer friend, Anthony Bisceglie, who
  contacted the FBI. The investigation and prosecution were overseen by
  now-Attorney General Merrick Garland, during a previous stint at the
  Justice Department.

  David Kaczynski wanted his role kept confidential, but his identity
  quickly leaked out and Ted Kaczynski vowed never to forgive his younger
  sibling. He ignored his letters, turned his back on him at court
  hearings and described David Kaczynski in a 1999 book draft as a “Judas
  Iscariot (who) ... doesn’t even have enough courage to go hang
  himself.”

  Ted Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago, the son of
  second-generation Polish Catholics — a sausage-maker and a homemaker.
  He played the trombone in the school band, collected coins and skipped
  the sixth and 11th grades.

  His high school classmates thought him odd, particularly after he
  showed a school wrestler how to make a mini-bomb that detonated during
  chemistry class.

  Harvard classmates recalled him as a lonely, thin boy with poor
  personal hygiene and a room that smelled of spoiled milk, rotting food
  and foot powder.

  After graduate studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he
  got a job teaching math at the University of California at Berkeley but
  found the work difficult and quit abruptly. In 1971, he bought a
  1½-acre parcel about 4 miles (6 kilometers) outside of Lincoln and
  built a cabin there without heating, plumbing or electricity.

  He learned to garden, hunt, make tools and sew, living on a few hundred
  dollars a year.

  He left his cabin in Montana in the late 1970s to work at a foam rubber
  products manufacturer outside Chicago with his father and brother. But
  when a female supervisor dumped him after two dates, he began posting
  insulting limericks about her and wouldn’t stop.

  His brother fired him and Ted Kaczynski soon returned to the wilderness
  to continue plotting his vengeful killing spree.

  ___

  Balsamo reported from Miami. This story includes biographical material
  written by former Associated Press writer Derek Rose.

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