#manhunt: unabomber

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Film Journal

"Manhunt: Unabomber" by Greg Yaitanes

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Who Is Allison Moore?: A Disney's Wish Mystery

OK, this is a little off the rails and random but this has been driving me crazy since I looked into it last night.

So, Disney's 100th Anniversary movie Wish is coming out soon and people have had a lot of hot takes about it so I wanted to do some digging. As part of that, I looked at the writers and two people have a "Screenplay by" credit: Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore.

Jennifer Lee, of course, wrote Frozen--their biggest princess hit in the modern era so that makes total sense to me. If you're coming out with a new princess movie for the big centennial of course you'd tap her. But I'd never heard of Allison, and when you look at her name on Wikipedia:

No blue link. So I headed to IMDB to check out her credits, figuring maybe she was some hot new talent recently promoted from within who did storyboards on some recent projects like Moana or something. But when I went to her IMDB page, this is what I found (after a brief mix-up with a Dexter's Lab actress):

Her Producer credits come up first and...huh. That's a lot of adult live action TV projects. Well, maybe her Writing credits are where this starts to make sense:

What? That can't be right, can it? The only vaguely Disney-esque thing on that credit list is Beauty and the Beast and, to be clear, that is a CW reboot of a 1987 procedural with the logline, "A beautiful detective falls in love with an ex-soldier who goes into hiding from the secret government organization that turned him into a mechanically charged beast." And she wrote two episodes on it.

And look at Disney's official page about Wish!

Everyone else on this page has credits that make sense--Frozen, Frozen 2, Raya, Encanto. And the two credits they list for Allison?

Night Sky and Manhunt.

Night Sky, an Amazon Prime show that she wrote one episode for and was cancelled after one season. And Manhunt--and show about hunting the UNABOMBER--that ran for two seasons and that she wrote two episodes for. Those are her two credits that they put up there next to Frozen and Encanto.

I have been scouring the internet trying to figure out who this woman is and how she got this job and I have come up *empty*. This is the big 100th anniversary movie! Why would they have one of the two screenplay writers be someone who seemingly has never done something like this before??? Like, I understand that not having done something before doesn't mean you can't do a good job, but it usually means you don't get the keys to the biggest most anticipated projects in the company's history!

They presumably could have gotten anyone they wanted for this and they picked this person and I have zero clue why and it's driving me crazy. If anyone has ANY information that could illuminate this at ALL--an interview, a social media post, gossip from your cousin who's a gofer at Disney--please let me know because I feel like I'm going full Pepe Silvia over this.

12/26 Edit: A SMALL UPDATE IS HERE!

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I alwats think about this, it's one of the most indelible images in American art history and we never talk about who even drew it.

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The Radiant & Mysterious Brunette👩 Dutch 🇳🇱 Actress Of 2 Great TV Series Of HBO & CBS / PARAMOUNT PLUS ➕

Born On October 19th, 1980

Sheis a Dutch actress. She is best known for portraying Dr. Helen Prins on the WGN America drama series Manhattan (2014–2015), Emily Grace in the HBO science fiction drama series Westworld (2018–2020), and Dr. Kristen Bouchard in the CBS/Paramount+ supernatural drama series Evil (2019–present).

Herbers also played recurring roles in the FX spy thriller series The Americans (2015), the HBO mystery drama series The Leftovers (2017), and the Discovery Channel drama series Manhunt: Unabomber (2017).

Katja Mira Herbers is the daughter of violinist Vera Beths (born 1946) and oboist and conductor Werner Herbers (1940–2023). Growing up she spent time in the US, accompanying her mother on tour with the group L'Archibudelli. Her mother remarried to cellist Anner Bylsma, and her father remarried to costume designer Leonie Polak, who introduced her to the theater. She had a Canadian au pair and learned to speak Dutch, German, and English growing up.

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Thanks to @thatsbitchcraft for the tag! (ngl though this one’s gonna be fucking difficult bc I haven’t watched anything in ages. My brain is just a rotting compost heap of all the fics I’ve been reading instead)

Rules: List eight shows for your followers to get to know you better.

Sharp Objects (my absolute fave of all time and I highly recommend it but also, trigger warnings out the ass. don’t go in blind) Breaking Bad (and to a lesser extent, but I’ll count it anyway, Better Call Saul) Hannibal (although I have yet to finish it) Bones (was obsessed when I was in high school but it definitely went downhill; quit while you’re ahead) Big Little Lies (took a while to get into it but holy shit) Manhunt: Unabomber (things from this show live in my mind rent-free 24/7) The Sinner (in fairness I only watched the first season, but it was fantastic. once I read the book it’s based on, then I’ll let myself watch the rest of it)

No pressure tagging: @moongays @queerdeadwizards @ruinsplume @tigolbittys @billsfangearring @benjamin-ovich @cuntyremus @colgatebluemintygel and an open tag to anyone else who wants to participate!

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Jacob Graham: Left-wing anarchist jailed for 13 years over terror offences after declaring he wanted to kill at least 50 people

The security services uncovered Jacob Graham's activity as part of an investigation into the purchase of chemicals online, it can be disclosed.

By Duncan Gardham, Tuesday 19 March 2024 09:17 UK

A left-wing anarchist has been jailed for 13 years for preparing acts of terrorism by compiling and sharing a bomb-making manual, after declaring he wanted to kill at least 50 people.

Jacob Graham, 20, from Norris Green, Liverpool, dedicated his manual, called the "Freedom Encyclopaedia", to "misfits, social nobodies, anarchists, [and] terrorists past and future, who want to fight for freedom against the government".

The judge said the college student was a "dangerous young man", adding that Graham described himself "as the first UK home-grown terrorist".

The security services uncovered Graham's activity as part of an investigation into the purchase of chemicals online, it can be disclosed.

When they raided the home he shared with his mother and sister, they discovered he had filmed bomb-making experiments in his back garden and buried supplies in a secret woodland hide in Formby, Merseyside.

In a document called "My Plan", Graham wrote he wanted to kill at least 50 people by attacking government buildings and politicians' houses.

He also made 138 videos, to be released on the day of an attack, in which he demonstrated explosives and talked about "Judgement Day" and "standing up for working-class people".

On a wall in his bedroom, Graham had printed out a picture of a car bomb exploding with the words: "Make politicians afraid to start their cars again."

'Destro the Destroyer'

Graham, a computer science student, used the name "Destro the Destroyer" and communicated with like-minded extremists using a gaming platform called Discord.

On another platform called Telegram, he exchanged messages with others who shared his hatred of government in groups called Earth Militia, Total Earth Liberation and Neo Luddite Action.

Sentencing him to 13 years in a young offenders institution, with five years on extended licence, the judge, Mr Justice Goose, said those who knew Graham believed he was an "ordinary young man" with an interest in fireworks, the military and outdoor pursuits.

"In reality, however, you are a dangerous young man, you described yourself as the first UK home-grown terrorist," the judge added.

Graham was the administrator for a number of chatrooms on the encrypted Telegram app, including one called Total Earth Liberation Group, with 150 members, into which he shared his bomb-making manual.

Graham told police he was "left-wing" but "more like an anarchist", adding: "I don't like the idea of a central control and I don't really like the monarchy."

His ideal government would be the size of "Merseyside or Liverpool", he said, adding he supported the Green Party and was an "environmentalist" who did not like the way "corporations act and how they damage the Earth".

He was found guilty by a jury on 23 February of one count of the preparation of terrorist acts, four counts of possession of information for terrorist purposes and two of dissemination of a terrorist publication, between May 2022 and May 2023.

Graham was cleared of one count of preparation of terrorist acts, following the five-week trial.

"I think it is fair to say I was quite anti-government," he told his trial.

"I didn't agree with the idea of it - the way certain things were handled, the pandemic, the cost of living. I didn't agree with a group of small people being able to make decisions that affect a mass."

The court heard Graham came to idolise an American terrorist called Theodore Kaczynski - known as the Unabomber - after watching a Netflix series called Manhunt, and pledged to "finish what he started".

From a remote cabin in Montana, Kaczynski carried out a 17-year mail bombing campaign, in which he targeted technology academics at universities, killing three people and injuring 23.

In his document "My Plan", which Graham started in May 2022, he stated that he was planning a bombing campaign that would end in a shooting spree.

Graham's bedroom. Pic: Greater Manchester Police via PA

"I am going to attack government buildings, politicians [sic] houses, mass murder those who think it is ok to hide their wrong doings [sic] behind money and power but you cannot hide from me. I am aiming for at least 50 deceased and more injured. Any more is a blessing," he wrote.

"I have constant anger, I am a ticking timebomb. I am not sorry for nothing."

Graham made video diaries and said in one: "I've got everything I need to start my revolution."

'Most of us can't afford to heat our homes... there needs to be someone to fix this'

In a video on 21 June, Graham took out a machete with a red handle and tapped the blade, saying: "Can't end my life yet, I have so much carnage to commit."

In another video made in his bedroom on 9 August, he said: "If terrorism is standing up for what you think is right, standing up for the working class people of this country, most of us can't afford to heat our homes or afford food, there needs to be someone to fix this problem. It is my responsibility to do this."

He added: "I will be a homegrown terrorist because I was born on British soil. If they want to call me a justice warrior or a hero, call me that. If they want to call me scum, call me that because I won't be here to listen to all of it."

In another video he threatened to attack Hugh Baird College, which he attended, saying: "I'm f****** ready, f****** bring it, I don't care, I'll kill every single last one of them."

Graham had downloaded a compendium of terrorist publications including the Mujahideen Handbook and the White Resistance Manual, which he stored in a folder called "Alexandria" after the fabled ancient library.

He told his trial he felt like a character in a James Bond or Mission Impossible film or The Last Of Us, a post-apocalyptic TV show.

He said he was "doomsday prepping" for "some sort of possible invasion, civil war, martial law, natural disasters, solar flares, floods, things like that."

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Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Found Dead in Prison Cell

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Ted Kaczynski, Known as the Unabomber, Dies at Age 81

Ted Kaczynski, the man infamously known as the Unabomber, was discovered dead in his prison cell in North Carolina, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The 81-year-old, who had been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a series of bombings across the United States, had been transferred to North Carolina in 2021 due to his deteriorating health. The exact cause of Kaczynski's death has not yet been disclosed, leaving many questions unanswered about the circumstances surrounding his passing. Kaczynski gained notoriety for his role in a string of bombings that targeted scientists and claimed the lives of three individuals. His reign of terror began in 1978 and continued until his arrest in 1996. Previously held in a maximum-security prison in Colorado, Kaczynski's declining health prompted authorities to move him to North Carolina, where he would receive the necessary medical attention. The decision was made in 2021, ensuring that he could be provided with appropriate care while serving his sentence. Kaczynski's arrest took place at a primitive cabin he inhabited in western Montana. Following his capture, he admitted to orchestrating a total of 16 explosions that caused casualties and injuries spanning from 1978 to 1995. His homemade bombs, often sent through the mail, induced fear and changed the way Americans approached package delivery and air travel. One particularly alarming incident involved an altitude-triggered explosion aboard an American Airlines flight, which detonated as intended. This event and the subsequent threat to blow up a plane departing from Los Angeles before the end of the July 4 weekend in 1995 caused chaos in air travel and mail services. The Unabomber later dismissed it as a "prank." The Unabomber's targets were primarily universities and airlines, earning him his infamous moniker from the FBI. As a highly educated mathematician trained at Harvard University, Kaczynski developed a vehement opposition to the consequences of advancing technology. His anti-technology manifesto, titled "Industrial Society and Its Future," was published by The Washington Post and The New York Times in September 1995 at the insistence of federal authorities. The Unabomber had promised to cease his acts of terrorism if a national publication would print his treatise. Kaczynski's reign of terror, marked by his bombings and the ensuing manhunt, left a lasting impact on American society. The hunt for him became the longest and most expensive in the nation's history. Ultimately, his arrest and conviction brought some measure of closure to the victims and their families. While the news of Ted Kaczynski's death raises questions, it also marks the end of a dark chapter in American history. The impact of his actions and the fear he instilled continue to resonate, reminding us of the importance of vigilance and the pursuit of justice. Read the full article

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Events 9.19 (after 1950)

1950 – Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River. 1957 – Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout. 1960 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign the Indus Waters Treaty for the control and management of the Indus, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers. 1970 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival. 1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. 1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew. 1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object. 1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. 1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City. 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music. 1989 – A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew. 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. 1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto. 1997 – The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people. 2006 – The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. 2008 – A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein crashes during a rejected takeoff from Colombia Metropolitan Airport in West Columbia, South Carolina, killing four of the six people on board. Barker and Goldstein both survive. 2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed. 2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602. 2016 – In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police. 2017 – The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage. 2019 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan. 2021 – The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13. 2022 – The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.

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INTRODUÇÃO AOS ESTUDOS LINGUÍSTICOS

O que é Linguística?

A linguagem humana: do mito à ciência (José Luiz Fiorin)

Manual de linguistica

Análise de v��deos - funções da linguagem

Sugestão de filme

"A Chegada (2016)" e SUGESTÃO DE SÉRIE: MANHUNT- UNABOMBER - 1° TEMPORADA

Para melhor discutirmos o Relativismo linguístico x Universalismo e o PAPEL DA LINGUÍSTICA COMO CIÊNCIA assistam ao filme e à série sugerida para a próxima semana.

A CHEGADA

MANHUNT- UNABOMBER

Vimos que a conclusão do caso Unabomber baseou-se em padrões semelhantes encontrados nas amostras linguísticas de autoria comprovada (escrita do manifesto). Para ajudá-los a pensar sobre esses padrões, analise o enunciado abaixo:

Você não pode comer o bolo e ter o bolo ao mesmo tempo!

O que ela revelou sobre o autor? Vamos analisar a frase em duas partes. Vamos analisar a frase em duas partes. Primeiro no âmbito da ideia transmitida pela frase em si mesma. Ao utilizar os verbos “comer” e “ter”, o autor dos atentados trabalha com a ideia de oposição como se social e industrial estivessem em lados opostos, como se, ao optar por um, automaticamente abríssemos mão do outro, como se fosse impossível ser livre e viver numa sociedade industrial, tal como é a impossibilidade de comer um bolo inteiro e ainda tê-lo.

Em uma segunda análise, pautada no inglês utilizado por ele para escrever a frase, observa-se a utilização de uma escrita culta, não empregada em tempos posteriores. Tal citação, a priori, foi considerada com erro ortográfico. Porém, o investigador linguista logo percebeu que se tratava de escrita correta e que a incorreção estaria nas produções modernas que pela aceitação da grande massa acabou se tornando “correta”.

Nesta passagem podemos fazer um paralelo entre a linguagem defendida pelo autor e a industrialização. Ao não acompanhar a “modernização” da linguagem, mesmo com todo seu conhecimento das estruturas gramaticais, e optar por uma estrutura de escrita mais “arcaica”, ele questiona a modernização industrial e seus valores, destacando por meio da escrita a valoração da forma anterior de viver e escrever. Para ele, tinha-se mais qualidade, porém a grande massa não teria condições de reconhecer isso porque estava imersa no processo de industrialização.

Qual é a função da linguagem?

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Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski is flanked by federal agents as he is led to a car from the federal courthouse in Helena, Montana, on 4 April 1996. Photograph: John Youngbear/AP

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, 81, Dies in US Prison Cell

Harvard-educated Mathematician waged 17-year bombing campaign from isolated shack in Montana wilderness

— Edward Helmore and Associated Press | Saturday 10 June 2023

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died on Saturday. He was 81.

Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told the Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early on Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8am, she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.

Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.

Years before the September 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the Unabomber’s deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the west coast in July 1995.

He forced the Washington Post, in conjunction with the New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” the first line read.

It was reviewed by mainstream publications, with the New York Times’ environmental writer Kirkpatrick Sale venturing that the Unabomber “is a rational man and his principal beliefs are, if hardly mainstream, entirely reasonable”.

Ted Kaczynski, from a 1962 Harvard yearbook. Photograph: Harvard University/Associated Press

But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the “Unabomber” for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.

Authorities in April 1996 found him in a 10-by-14ft (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.

But Kaczynski, who was initially regarded by some as a radical environmentalist, was primarily an anti-technologist. Academics judged his “manifesto” as a synthesis of the work of others: the French philosopher Jacques Ellul, British zoologist Desmond Morris and American psychologist Martin Seligman.

But once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than romantic antihero.

Even in his own journals, Kaczynski came across as not a committed revolutionary, but a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances.

“I certainly don’t claim to be an altruist or to be acting for the ‘good’ (whatever that is) of the human race,” he wrote on 6 April 1971. “I act merely from a desire for revenge.”

Kaczynski hated the idea of being viewed as mentally ill and when his lawyers attempted to present an insanity defense, he tried to fire them. When that failed, he tried to hang himself with his underwear.

Kaczynski eventually pleaded guilty rather than let his defense team proceed with an insanity defense.

David Kaczynski, left, and his older brother Theodore John Kaczynski, center, in a sandbox with neighbors. Photograph: AP

“I’m confident that I’m sane,” Kaczynski told Time magazine in 1999. “I don’t get delusions and so forth.”

Ted Kaczynski was born on 22 May 1942, in Chicago, the son of second-generation Polish Catholics – a sausage-maker and a homemaker. He played the trombone in the school band, collected coins and skipped the sixth and 11th grades.

Kaczynski had skipped two grades to attend Harvard at age 16 and had published papers in prestigious mathematics journals. His explosives were carefully tested and came in meticulously handcrafted wooden boxes sanded to remove possible fingerprints. Later bombs bore the signature “FC” for “Freedom Club”.

The FBI called him the “Unabomber” because his early targets seemed to be universities and airlines. An altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 went off as planned onboard an American Airlines flight; a dozen people onboard suffered from smoke inhalation.

Kaczynski killed computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser and timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray. California geneticist Charles Epstein and Yale University computer expert David Gelernter were maimed by bombs two days apart in June 1993.

Mosser was killed in his North Caldwell, New Jersey, home on 10 December 1994, a day he was supposed to be picking out a Christmas tree with his family. His wife, Susan, found him grievously wounded by a barrage of razor blades, pipes and nails.

“He was moaning very softly,” she said at Kaczynski’s 1998 sentencing. “The fingers on his right hand were dangling. I held his left hand. I told him help was coming. I told him I loved him.”

When Kaczynski stepped up his bombs and letters to newspapers and scientists in 1995, experts speculated the “Unabomber” was jealous of the attention being paid to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

A threat to blow up a plane out of Los Angeles before the end of the Fourth of July weekend threw air travel and mail delivery into chaos. The Unabomber later claimed it was a “prank”.

The Washington Post printed the Unabomber’s manifesto at the urging of federal authorities, after the bomber said he would desist from terrorism if a national publication published his treatise.

Patrik had had a disturbing feeling about her brother-in-law even before seeing the manifesto and eventually persuaded her husband to read a copy at the library. After two months of arguments, they took some of Ted Kaczynski’s letters to Patrik’s childhood friend Susan Swanson, a private investigator in Chicago.

Swanson in turn passed them along to former FBI behavior science expert Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote them had also probably written the Unabomber’s manifesto.

“It was a nightmare,” David Kaczynski, who as a child had idolized his older brother, said in a 2005 speech at Bennington College. “I was literally thinking, ‘My brother’s a serial killer, the most wanted man in America.’”

Swanson turned to a corporate lawyer friend, Anthony Bisceglie, who contacted the FBI.

David Kaczynski wanted his role kept confidential, but his identity quickly leaked out and Ted Kaczynski vowed never to forgive his younger sibling. He ignored his letters, turned his back on him at court hearings and described David Kaczynski in a 1999 book draft as a “Judas Iscariot [who] ... doesn’t even have enough courage to go hang himself.”

Ted Kaczynski on 21 June 1996. Sources say he died by suicide on Saturday. Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP

‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski Died By Suicide in Prison – Report

Harvard-educated mathematician carried out a 17-year solitary bombing spree that killed three people and injured 23 others

— Associated Press | Sunday 11 June 2023

Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber”, who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.

Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from late-stage cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at the federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, around 12.30am on Saturday. Emergency responders performed CPR and revived him before he was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead later on Saturday morning, the people told the AP.

The people were not authorized to publicly discuss Kaczynski’s death and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Kaczynski’s death comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has faced increased scrutiny in the last several years following the death of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who also died by suicide in a federal jail in 2019.

Kaczynski had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.

A Harvard-educated mathematician, Kaczynski lived as a recluse in a dingy cabin in rural Montana, where he carried out a solitary bombing spree that changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes.

His targets included academics and airlines, the owner of a computer rental store, an advertising executive and a timber industry lobbyist. In 1993, a California geneticist and a Yale University computer expert were maimed by bombs within the span of two days.

Two years later, he used the threat of continued violence to convince the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish his manifesto, a 35,000-word screed against modern life and technology, as well as damages to the environment.

The tone of the treatise was recognized by his brother, David, and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, who tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the Unabomber for years in the nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.

Authorities in April 1996 found him in a small plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.

While awaiting trial, in 1998, Kaczynski attempted to hang himself with a pair of underwear. Though he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as a paranoid schizophrenic, he was adamant that he wasn’t mentally ill. He eventually pleaded guilty rather than allow his attorneys to present an insanity defense.

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Interior of Ted Kaczynski's Montana cabin which he lived in for 25 years.

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He is an Australian actor. He is best known for playing Jake Sully in the Avatar franchise, Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation, and Perseus in Clash of the Titans and its sequel Wrath of the Titans. He has taken other dramatic roles, appearing in The Debt (2010), Everest (2015), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), The Shack (2017), Manhunt: Unabomber (2017), and Fractured (2019).

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Manhunt: Unabomber (2017)

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