‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski found dead in his jail cell at 81

Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard and UC-Berkeley-educated mathematics professor who became known as the Unabomber after making 16 homemade bombs that killed three people, is dead, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson.

Kaczynski’s body was discovered in his cell Saturday morning, officials said. He was 81.

He had been in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a medical facility in North Carolina in December 2021 due to ill health. ---More...