Ted Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber’, died in prison

() — Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber”, died in prison, according to police sources.

Kaczynski was serving eight life sentences after pleading guilty in 1998 to sending bombs that killed three people and wounded 23 others through the mail between 1978 and 1995.

The former Harvard-educated math professor was arrested in 1996 in a small, remote cabin in western Montana. The “Unabomber” first came to the attention of authorities in 1978 after a homemade bomb exploded at a Chicago college.

Although Kaczynski evaded authorities for years, he was able to be caught after his brother identified his prose in his published manifesto. Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others before he was arrested in 1996.

Kaczynski was serving eight life sentences

In 2021, Kaczynski was transferred to a federal medical center in North Carolina, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was held at Supermax in Florence, Colorado before being transferred to FMC Butner on December 14, 2021.

Portrayed by prosecutors as a vengeful loner, Kaczynski published a 30,000-word tract that became known as the Unabomber Manifesto.

In the document, Kaczynski claimed a moral high ground for his deadly campaign, justifying the attacks in the name of the preservation of humanity and the nature of technology attack and exploitation.

“I don’t believe in anything,” Kaczynski wrote. “I don’t even believe in the cult of nature worshipers or wildlife. (I’m perfectly prepared to dump trash in parts of the forest that don’t serve me; I often dump cans in logged areas.)

A sentencing memorandum quoted extensively from Kaczynski’s diaries, in which he wrote of a deep hatred of people.

With information from Amanda Watts, Kay Jones