By: Yvonne Liu

Kaczynski, who gained world infamy as the Unabomber, was found dead around 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in a North Carolina prison medical facility. As of yet, the exact cause of death has not been determined.

Kaczynski’s frightening slow-motion rampage killed 3 people and injured 23 throughout the country in the 1990s. His bombs are sophisticated killing devices made with easily obtained chemicals, lamp cords, and materials that are easily obtained, highly damaging, and virtually untraceable. Kaczynski made epoxy from boiled deer hooves he shot, and even peeled batteries’ skin to prevent detection. He fed the investigators false information and once inserted hair found in a public restroom into the bomb in order to set off a genetic wild-goose chase.

A Harvard graduate and former professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, he wanted to draw attention to his ideas, which all came from his hatred of modern technology.

A letter he wrote in 1995 promised that if the New York Times or Washington Post published his 35,00-word article unedited, he would suspend all his killingsEventually, it was published in the Washington Post on Sept. 19. 1995 as an eight-page special section.

” In paragraph 96 of his 232 paragraphs — he numbered them, for ease of reference — he honed in on the terrifying method of his madness: ‘If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted,’ he wrote. ‘In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people. “

Kaczynski’s three killings included Hugh Scrutton, owner of a computer store in Sacramento, public relations executive Thomas Mosser, and California Forestry Assn. President Gilbert R. Murray. Aside from these fatalities, many injuries occurred as well as some close calls. He had distributed 16 bombs, either by dropping them off in person or mailing them from distant cities.

Kaczynski even sent an insulting note to Gelernter, a Yale professor. This was two years after his bomb shattered Gelernter’s right hand and almost destroyed one of his eyes.

“People with advanced degrees aren’t as smart as they think they are,” he wrote. “If you’d had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world and you wouldn’t have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source.”

Gelernter, without reading the note, forwarded it to the FBI. Telling agents, “If this guy has a message for me, I don’t give a damn what it is,”