INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday
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
The 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 to committing 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.Years before the Sept
even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York
claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.But it led to his undoing
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 a beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack,
Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than a romantic anti-hero.Even in his own journals, Kaczynski came across not as a
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
papers in prestigious mathematics journals
His explosives were carefully tested and came in meticulously handcrafted wooden boxes sanded to remove possible fingerprints
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
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
I told him help was coming
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
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
in Chicago.Swanson in turn passed them along to former FBI behavioral science expert Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote them
said in a 2005 speech at Bennington College
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
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 1 1/2-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
him and Ted Kaczynski soon returned to the wilderness to continue plotting his vengeful killing spree.Source - The Associated Press-Agencies
