What did Ted Kaczynski do?

Ted Kaczynski, best known as Unabomed, was an American domestic terrorist who tormented US citizens for over a decade. He became the focus of the FBI. At some point, he was on the top list of the FBI’s most wanted and was considered the person who made the Bureau spend their most expensive budget on a criminal.

He was charged for coming numerous crimes, largely bombings from 1978 to 1995. At the peak of his bad deeds, he killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass mail-bombing spree.

Kaczynski’s crimes came to light after it was uncovered that he forced Washington Post and the New York Times to push his violent manifesto dubbed Industrial Society and Its Future in September 1995.

In 1996, he was sentenced to life without parole after evading capture for almost 20 years. His brother, David received a $1 million reward from the FBI for assisting with his capture in 1996. The reward was funded by a Congressional appropriation for the Justice Department.

He spent the past thirty years in numerous prisons across the United States – and recently spent his last days at a North Carolina prison medical facility. He was held at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998.