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 * Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski** ﻿The Unabomber

Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, who is better known as the "Unabomber", went on a reign of terror for almost 18 years mailing explosives to univesity and airplane officials. The name Unabomber, given to him by the FBI, was given to him because he bombed (un)iversities and (a)irplanes (Biography.com).

Kaczynski earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in mathematics in 1962. After graduation, he attended the University of Michigan, earning both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics. He did not come from a poorly educated background. After being a student at these two schools, Kaczynski took on teaching at Berkeley, California from 1967-1969. He later built a cabin in Montana where he lived in total isolation from the rest of society (Biography.com).

The "Unabomber's" attacks first began in 1978 when he moved backed to Chicago to work at the same factory as his brother David. He mailed a parcel that was never delivered to it's intended reciever but the package had a return address of a Northwestern University professor that exploded as it was being opened by a campus security officer(Biography.com).

The Federal Bureau of Investigation started up a task force along with the United States Postal Service after Kaczynski had sent explosives to two American airlines in 1979 and 1980. The taskforce was created to figure out who was committing these crimes because there was no suspects at the immediate time of the attacks. The case was called UNABOM(Biography.com).

The "Unabomber" wrote in a letter to New York Times in 1993 stating that there is no hope for industrialization because of what had been currently happening in the world. The "Unabomber" claimed he would stop the attacks if his manifesto would be published. He was against the future in technology and consumerism because it was destroying mankind. He believed individuals were losing their freedom to large corporations.This is said to be his motive for bombing universities and planes. The FBI received information from Kaczynski's brother who was able to point out the writing style in the published work and identify it with Theodore Kaczynski's writing (Free Encyclopedia, 2010).

Ted Kaczynski was arrested in 1996, in Montana, inside a cabin where incriminating documents, three manual typewriters, and bomb making materials were found.Theodore J. Kaczynski later confessed in court to being the "Unabomber" to avoid the death sentence because he had so much incriminating evidence against him. "Kaczynski pleaded guilty to 13 counts of transporting explosive devices with the intent to kill or maim. Kaczynski also pleaded guilty to all federal charges against him...comprising five bombings during his decades-long crusade against modern technology" (Washingtonpost.com, 1998). Kaczynski also admitted to 11 bombings in which he was not being charged for.

"At least three psychiatrists, including one from the federal prison system, concluded Kaczynski suffers from the grandiose fantasies and delusional rage of an unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic in deep denial" (Washingtonpost.com, 1998).

Kaczynski was sentenced to a term of four life sentences plus **30 years in prison and ordered to pay victims $15 million in restitution** for his nearly 18-year reign of terror which killed three people and injured 22 others. Kaczynski is currently an inmate at Florence Federal Correctional Complex in Colorado (Free Encyclopedia, 2010).

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