Ted Kaczynski, often referred to as the “Unabomber,” is said to have committed suicide in jail.
On Saturday, June 10, the 81-year-old, who was serving a life sentence for a series of bombs around the United States, was found dead in his North Carolina jail cell.
According to “The New York Times,” Kaczynski died in his detention cell, despite the white shirts’ best efforts to rescue him.
The circumstances surrounding his suicide are unknown, and it is unclear if prison officials could have done more to safeguard his safety.
Kaczynski, guilty of one of the explosions that targeted academics, was relocated to North Carolina in 2021 from a high-security prison in Colorado owing to poor health.
In 1996, Kaczynski was arrested. He was discovered in a makeshift shelter in western Montana.
Between 1978 and 1995, he was convicted of 16 explosions that killed three people and wounded 23 others in various US locales.
Kaczynski mailed the explosives he built at home.
They included an altitude-activated explosive device that detonated on an American Airlines aircraft as planned, altering the way Americans mailed goods and boarded flights.