Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81. Kaczynski was previously in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a medical facility in 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. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski placed or mailed 16 bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others, according to authorities.

In 1995, before he was identified as the Unabomber, he demanded newspapers to publish a long manuscript he had written, saying the killings would continue otherwise. Both the New York Times and Washington Post published the 35,000-word manifesto later that year at the recommendation of the U.S. Attorney General and the director of the FBI.

If it hadn't been for the suspicions of his brother and sister-in-law, Kaczynski might never have been caught. Kaczynski's sister-in-law, Linda Patrik, was one of the first to identify Kaczynski as the Unabomber after reading the Unabomber's writing.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-found-dead-jail-cell/story?id=99984583

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Article updated.

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Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.

Kaczynski was previously in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a medical facility in North Carolina in December 2021 due to poor health.

Kaczynski, who went nearly 20 years without being captured, was considered America's most prolific bomber. His 16 bombs killed three people and injured two dozen others, the FBI said, until his arrest in 1996.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

[murielm99]

1. Holy cow.

The world certainly is changing in some interesting ways these days.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. First the Spy for Russia and now Ted. Prisons must be vying to get Trump in their lockup.

[2naSalit]

45. And the hits just keep coming!

These are strange times.

[mercuryblues]

2. A whole lotta prison cells

seem to be opening up for the Trump Family Cabal.

[Traildogbob]

5. 👏👏👏

And the previous occupants are going to join Paster Pat for s’mores over an open fire pit.

[mercuryblues]

16. Pat is still dead.

I was hoping the funeral was going to be the same day as trump's hearing. The TV coverage of them both at the same time would be fun.

[Traildogbob]

20. Trumps birthday is

The day after, Wednesday. Hopefully his most miserable. And Jack gives US more presents. Hope the 100 candles burn that flammable paste on his head holding that weave in place. How about an indictment chocolate cake with 37 candles?

[mercuryblues]

32. I found one

[Traildogbob]

40. 😂😂😂😂

I choked, lost my breath for a second there. Well done.

[roamer65]

44. Woohoo!!!

[Kennah]

57. Weekend Report

[mercuryblues]

59. So is Rush Limbaugh.

[Kennah]

62. I find it a glorious way to remember them

[mercuryblues]

63. LOL.

I'm dying here.

But I'm afraid you turn it into a meme.

[YoshidaYui]

66. lol

[bucolic_frolic]

3. We are having a bang up week!

[orleans]

9. lol. (pun intended?) nt

[bucolic_frolic]

11. don't know, just an expression we always used. /nt

[Sneederbunk]

4. Then it must be true.

You can grow old and die in prison.

[sakabatou]

6. The bastard's dead. Good.

[ChazII]

28. Agree with your comment. n/t

[smb]

7. Maybe He Can Be Roomates With Pat Robertson In Hell nt

[Aristus]

8. This just in: You are much less likely to die in prison if you don't go around blowing people up.

Just posting this because someone evidently didn't get the message.

It's going to be explosively hot where you're going, Ted...

[DENVERPOPS]

68. The unibomber

on a scale of one to a million was a one when compared to Trump and the Republican Cabal being an easy million.......

And yet, he was in Supermax, and Trump is continuing to walk free along with a thousand other Republicans that should be in Super Max here in Colorado and elsewhere in high security prisons around the country........

WASF

[electric_blue68]

10. Just caught this on Latest vs lbn: thot; The Onion? Wow!

Good.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. 2 Supermax openings in a week

Kaczynski and Hanssen.

[electric_blue68]

14. Crazeee! Jared for the other?

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Probably need to draw straws

as there are plenty that belong in there.

[electric_blue68]

35. Bwah. You"re right! 👍

[msfiddlestix]

31. oh hell, I missed the news on Hanson! I was wondering which Russian Spy died in prison. ty

[BumRushDaShow]

38. Yeah... that story came out last Monday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143083410

[Kennah]

60. I totally missed the news on Hanssen on June 5

[Sky Jewels]

15. His death:

"not with a ... but a whimper."

[Music Man]

17. Good riddance.

Fucking monster.

[Kaleva]

18. "developing story. Please check back for updates."

UPDATE: Ted Kaczynski will soon be embalmed. Stay tuned for further updates.

[SunSeeker]

19. Trump should die in prison as well. nt

[AverageOldGuy]

21. What a shame - - -

- - - should have been Trump.

After all, Kaczynski killed three people, Trump will destroy an entire nation and likely plunge the world into fascism.

[Major Nikon]

22. There's only one

[The Grand Illuminist]

23. This....

[dembotoz]

24. prison not a good place to be if you are old and sick

Does not sound like a hot bed for conspiracy.....
I do not feel sorry for him...He made his bed and he died in it

[C Moon]

26. This is the way his life ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

[underpants]

27. Just said this to my wife. Her immediate response "Oh good"

[oldsoftie]

29. The terrorist should've been executed years ago.

Thats what they deserve

[CaptainTruth]

30. The hits just keep on coming.

[Fiendish Thingy]

33. Just a reminder that Merrick Garland put Ted in that prison cell. Nt

[Talitha]

36. Wow, I didn't know that.

Thanks for the info!

[Kali]

37. is that right?

circles are always interesting

[BumRushDaShow]

39. He most certainly did

https://rollcall.com/2016/05/10/7-things-merrick-garland-told-the-senate-about-himself/



https://abc7.com/scotus-obama-garland/1248257/

[Kali]

41. I do remember about OKC

not the trial itself but I think when Obama was nominating

[BumRushDaShow]

42. During that nomination discussion after Scalia bought the farm

that's when all the "biographical" stuff was being reported about Garland (although there was also some discussion about him being a "centrist" ). Then that fucker Turtle snatched that SCOTUS slot away, and rammed through a series of loons.

[Warpy]

34. He displayed murderous ingenuity, making what he considered to be "green" bombs

constructed of wood and easily obtained materials. He always made me sad, wonder what he could have accomplished had he not gotten mad at the world and isolated himself into going crazier and crazier. He was a study in squandered potential.

Oh, I was thrilled when he was caught, he was too hard on low paid mail room employees and secretaries who represented many of his victims. His manifesto made sense until about halfway through the first big paragraph, where it became apparent Ted was nuts, a brilliant paranoiac.

I can't celebrate his passing, his life just made me sad because we don't have really good treatments for the kind of demons he was facing. It's why he fled to that cabin and went murderously mad.

[Backseat Driver]

51. I hear you! He turned away from advancing hi-tech and fled to

his cabin in the hills - it was the way in which he expressed his "crazy" dismay about the consequences of uncontrolled advanced technology--bomb making and using bombs across the country to murder and maim--that was the problem.

Neo-Luddites still have some quirky ideas about abstaining from the advantages that advanced hi-technology may bring to society. Just look at the many opinions expressed about the repercussions surrounding the dualities that exist over how (and who) will benefit from AI technology and its impact on the social, political, and educational fabric around the globe; Ted wasn't all wrong about coming repercussions. But his choices about how to bring us to awareness of HIS particular take on advanced technology's futuristic use was incredibly montrous and yet somewhat prescient at the same time. Assault weapons and ghost guns used in mass shootings have more recently killed more than Ted ever did, but instilled the same familar fear, terror, and loss into common daily activities.

My grandfather, born in the US of German immigrants, was employed as a loom wire-weaver for paper production; it was the closure of the corporate fabric and wire textile corporations in MA in the 1930s that brought him to the "rust belt" for work. His craft was then superceded by mechanized looms on which he was trained just prior to his retirement. Voice to text and the EMR have transformed the recordkeeping of medical and allied medical practioners but sure have not contributed much to lowering medical costs for patients nor much improved their care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism

[roamer65]

43. Wow...Hanssen, Kaczynski, Robertson and Dump indicted!!!!

Amazing past few days.

[DinahMoeHum]

47. Don't forget James Watt.

[roamer65]

65. Very true.

[IronLionZion]

46. "the convicted terrorist"

ah, back before 9/11 changed everything. When whites could be terrorists. After 9/11 whites became mentally ill because we needed to justify racism against brown Americans.

[Goonch]

48. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[WestMichRad]

49. Good riddance.

He was one screwed up person.

[paleotn]

50. Good

[cannabis_flower]

52. Developing story?

Really? He was old. He died what more can develop?

[BumRushDaShow]

53. They finished updating the bio and crimes-committed info

about an hour after they originally published their breaking news blip.

Seemed they wanted to retell the details because you have a whole pile of 20 & 30 somethings who either weren't born or were toddlers when he was caught and put away.

[iluvtennis]

54. Good riddance - he was a stain on this earth. n/t

[iluvtennis]

55. Good riddance - he was a stain on this earth. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

56. He was quite good at what he did. A sadistic bastard.

[Kennah]

58. We should invite TFG to author a Manifesto. It always works out.

[Kennah]

61. There were some uninspired conspiracy theories that he was also the Zodiac Killer ...

... but the "evidence" seemed quite unconvincing

[LudwigPastorius]

64. If they really wanted to fuck with him, they'd...

freeze his head and bring him back in 50 years when the planet has become an AI-ruled, techno-dystopia.

[intrepidity]

67. I didn't even know he was still alive

TIL that he wasn't dead but is now.