Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber who terrorized the United States from 1978 to 1995, died in prison at the age of 81. The New York Times reports it.

Mathematician, after studying at Harvard he locked himself in a cabin in Montana and from 1978 to 1995 he sent homemade explosive packages to several people, killing three and injuring more than twenty . A campaign of terror that frightened all the universities of the country.

Targeted above all by academics and businessmen, its stated goal was to cause "the collapse of the modern social order" .

Arrested in 1996, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years in prison without the possibility of probation . After two decades in a maximum security federal prison in Colorado, he was transferred to the medical facility at Butner Federal Prison, North Carolina. There he was found dead at 8 this morning, the cause of death was not disclosed.

(Unioneonline/L)

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