Is American Criminal Ted Kaczynski Dead Or Still Alive And Why Is Death News Trending On Internet

Is American Criminal Ted Kaczynski Dead Or Still Alive? People are guessing as to whether the web rumor of Ted Kaczynski’s passing is a hoax.

The domestic terrorist known as the “Unabomber” killed three people and injured more than 20 others during Ted’s 17-year campaign of postal bombings from 1978 to 1995. The infamous term comes from the investigation code name that the FBI-led task force used to pinpoint his targets at the University and the passenger jet.

Out of the 16 bombs the Unabomber sent, the three that murdered Hugh Scrutton, the proprietor of a California computer company, Thomas Mosser, a New Jersey advertising executive, and Gilbert Murray, the head of the California Forestry Association, in 1995, were the worst.

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski wasn’t captured by the FBI until 1996, ending one of the most drawn-out and expensive manhunts in FBI history. He was then residing in a solitary, ten-by-14-foot cabin he had constructed in a remote Montana area without electricity or running water.

Is American Criminal Ted Kaczynski Dead Or Still Alive

Since Ted Kaczynski’s death news is just a hoax, he is still alive. 

Kaczynski, now 80 years old, served most of his time in solitary confinement at the Supermax high-security prison in Florence, Colorado. 

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A picture of Ted Kaczynski. (Source: oxygen.com)

He spent his hour of recreation time at that facility with Ramzi Yousef and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in separate cages made of wire mesh measuring 12 by 18 feet. Kaczynski was moved to the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Butner, North Carolina, on December 14, 2021.

A geneticist at the University of California who was one of Kaczynski’s surviving victims told the Los Angeles Times that Kaczynski’s sentence was unfair and that no punishment would be severe enough.

Ted Kaczynski’s death news has been trending on the internet for the past few days. However, no reliable source has confirmed that he is dead. Hence, it cannot be assumed that Ted Kaczynski is no more.

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Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is escorted by U.S. marshals from a federal courthouse June 21, 1996, in Helena, Mont. (Source: latimes.com)

In Sacramento, California, Kaczynski was charged with the three deadly bombings. His attorneys urged him to enter an insanity defense, but he declined. He attempted his life in jail in 1998, and paranoid schizophrenia was later determined to be the cause. He requested the right to self-defense, but that request was turned down.

On January 22, 1998, he received multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole and a fine of over $15 million. Robert Cleary, the lead prosecutor, told reporters that he believed “justice was done.”

Ted Kaczynski Before He Was Arrested

Kaczynski was born in 1942 in a Chicago suburb to a mother who worked as a sausage maker and a housewife. He was known as Teddy John by his family.

Kaczynski was hospitalized for an allergic rash when he was nine months old. As was customary in 1942, the hospital only permitted his parents to see their infant son for a few hours every other day.

Wanda Kaczynski, the future terrorist’s mother, later recalled how the child would wail as he was taken away from her after each visit, telling the FBI that she thought this incident laid the groundwork for Kaczynski’s arrest in 1996.

Kaczynski began attending Harvard on a scholarship when he was 16 years old. He was said to have a genius-level IQ of 167. Kaczynski was enlisted there for the Murray Experiment, which involved psychological abuse and humiliation of severely stressed subjects.

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