'Unabomber' Dies in Prison

The Unabomber was found dead in his cell this morning at a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. Ted Kaczynski, 81, had been imprisoned for over twenty years at the federal 'Super-Max' prison in Colorado -- the same prison where disgraced former FBI agent Robert Hanssen had been held until his recent death -- before his apparently recent transfer to a prison medical facility. Kaczynski mailed letter bombs to people -- they detonated when opened -- killing three people and injuring 23 from 1978 until his arrest in 1995. Kaczynski carried out his bombing campaign while living in an isolated shack in rural Montana. In prison psychiatrists diagnosed Kaczynski as "paranoid schizophrenic."

From the NPR report:

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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 the nation's longest, costliest manhunt. NPR news link

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