Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Dies in Prison at Age 81
“Kaczynski was found unresponsive in his cell around 12:30 a.m. ET and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead”
Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unibomber, was found dead in his prison cell early Saturday.
Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell early Saturday, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.
Kaczynski was found unresponsive in his cell around 12:30 a.m. ET and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Kaczynski was previously in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, in December 2021 due to poor health.
Kaczynski, who went nearly 20 years without being captured until his arrest in 1996, was considered America’s most prolific bomber.
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Another great FBI victory.
Worked on the case for years and got bupkus.
Finally the guy’s brother turned him in.
Agents were high-fiving all over America, like they did something.
They did. They likely “observed” him.
As in, shipping him hard-to-find components, and suggesting “cool” targets.
So did they find him unresponsive at
12:30 AM or 8 AM?
Or should we just split it at 3:45 AM?
It’s really sad that Ted and his brother David never saw or spoke to each other again, after David turned him in to law-enforcement. David apparently was waiting for Ted to initiate. He would write to Ted over and over, “The door’s open.”
I can’t begin to understand what it’s like for David. I do know — that especially for people with serious mental illnesses and executive function disorders, it can be more difficult for them than the average person to initiate, to reach out. I would imagine both brothers had guilt and shame that got in the way — Ted for murdering and seriously injuring people, and David, for turning in his brother to law-enforcement, They each likely thought the other didn’t want to communicate. My guess is that before prison, David probably was the one who mostly reached out. So after Ted has been imprisoned for life, why change the lifelong dynamic, and now make Ted the initiator? If David is waiting 20 years for Ted to reach out to them, clearly, it’s not happening. The reunion likely would happen faster if the person who’s more well reaches out.
I had assumed the brothers were in touch, that they had worked through the initial feelings of David turning him in, that they talked frequently. It saddened me to know the two brothers have not spoken for 20 years since Ted was arrested.
I believe David feels some guilt for having turned his brother in. I never realized their fraternal relationship died that day. No wonder Ted fell into friendships with other serial and mass killers like Timothy McVeigh.