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The UNAbomber
The so-called UNAbomber was on the run for seventeen years, until 1996 when his brother turned him in. Ted Kaczynski carried out attacks against universities and airlines.
On the 10th May 2023, the so-called UNAbomber was found dead in his prison cell.
Ted Kaczynski carried out a campaign of attacks against universities and airlines in the USA, over seventeen years. In 1996, he was turned in by his brother David Kaczynski.
In 2010, David spoke to Lucy Williamson.
(Photo: Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski outside the Federal Courthouse in Sacramento, California. January 1998. Credit: Bob Galbraith/AFP/Getty Images)
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