Ted Kaczynski reportedly died by suicide in his jail cell (Picture: Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images)
Ted Kaczynski, the infamous ‘Unabomber’ who killed three people and injured 23 over a 17-year long bombing campaign, died by suicide, according to reports.
Kaczynski, 81, was found unresponsive in his cell around 12.30am on Saturday morning.
The convicted bomber serving eight consecutive life sentences was transported by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Attempts to revive him at the facility and in the ambulance were unsuccessful.
Kaczynski’s cause of death was not initially reported, but three prison officials familiar with the situation told the New York Times that he died by suicide.
Ted Kaczynski is escorted inside a federal courthouse in Helena, Montana after his arrest in 1996 (Picture: AP)
The Associated Press also reported his cause of death to be suicide, also citing four anonymous sources.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has not yet officially confirmed Kaczynski’s official cause of death. They will wait until an official autopsy has been conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina.
Kaczynski was being housed at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, where he was undergoing treatment for late-stage cancer.
He was moved to the facility in December 2021. He previously served over 25 years of his sentence at ADX Florence, the maximum-security federal prison in Colorado which also houses infamous criminals including drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman and the Tsarnaev brothers, who were responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.
Ted Kaczynski speaks to a reporter for an interview inside ADX Florence in 1999 (Picture: Getty Images/Hulton Archive)
Kaczynski was a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he was on a tenure track, he left his job without explanation in 1969.
He then moved to a remote cabin in Lincoln, Montana, where years later he would conduct a cross-country bombing campaign that targeted academics, computer store owners, a timber industry lobbyist, and the president of United Airlines.
The 17-year search for the ‘Unabomber’ became the longest and most expensive search in FBI history before he was finally caught in 1996.
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Kaczynski was being housed at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, where he was undergoing treatment for late-stage cancer.