Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, sentenced to multiple life terms, is transferred from supermax prison in Colorado to federal prison medical facility in North Carolina that treats inmates for significant health problems
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has been transferred from the Colorado supermax prison to a federal medical facility in North Carolina - a sign the infamous domestic terrorist's health is deteriorating.
Kaczynski, 79 - a mathematics prodigy who gained notoriety for his manifesto after sending a series of bombs in the mail over 17 years that killed three people and injured 23 - has been moved to FMC Butner, which is known for treating inmates with significant health problems.
He was transferred on December 14 from supermax prison Florence-ADMAX - the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' - where he has been serving multiple life sentences. The prison houses the 'worst of the worst,' such as World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.
His condition is unknown and the Bureau of Prisons refused to tell his brother David Kaczynski about any ailments. David found out about his brother's transfer through someone who corresponds with him.
DailyMail.com contacted FMC Butner and ADX, which declined to comment due to security concerns. The medical facility in Bahama, North Carolina was where ponzi king Bernie Madoff took his last breath.
Kaczynski hasn't responded to his brother's letters since David tipped off investigators after excerpts from a 35,000-word manifesto were published in the Washington Post and The New York Times in 1995 - helping to end the FBI's 17-year manhunt for a suspect.
The manifesto railed against modernization, which David and his wife recognized as his brother's ramblings.
Kaczynski was transferred on December 14 from supermax prison Florence-ADMAX to federal medical facility FMC Butner
Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 after he mailed bombs through the US Postal Service. He also hand-delivered some (pictured in 1996)
Kaczynski (pictured in 1996) started sending the bombs in 1978 from his cabin in Lincoln, Montana
Kaczynski's brother David (pictured) turned over documents and letters that he said proved his brother was the Unabomber. FBI analysts were able to determine it was 'certainly the same' person
Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 to carrying out mail bombings as a 'campaign' against scientists, computers, and airlines.
He pleaded guilty to 13 counts of transporting explosive devices with the intent to kill or maim, as well as federal charges. He was spared the death penalty, but sentenced to multiple life terms.
Kaczynski - who has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University and a master's from the University of Michigan - started his terror reign in 1978 after moving to a cabin in the woods that he built in Montana in 1971.
For the next 17 years, he mailed or hand-delivered 16 bombs, including to a few professors at the University of Southern California at Berkeley, where Kaczynski taught geometry and calculus as the youngest assistant professor for two years.
Among his victims were a Yale computer scientist, an astronaut candidate, a Sacramento forestry lobbyist and the president of United Airlines.
Kaczynski sent a bomb that failed to detonate on an American Airline flight in 1979 and later to the president of the company in 1980.
The president of United Airlines received minor injuries after opening a bomb. Kaczynski disguised the homemade bombs to appear as presents.
His first fatality came in 1985 and his bombs would go on to kill two others.
The FBI got on his tail in 1978, according to its website, after one of his bombs exploded at the University of Chicago.
In 1979, the FBI paired up with the United States Postal Service - which Kaczynski used to send the bombs he did not hand deliver - and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The task force eventually grew to 150 full-time investigators and analysts.
The task force eventually concluded that Kaczynski had connections to Chicago, which was his hometown.
The FBI said 'even the gender was not certain, although investigators believed the bomber was most likely male' and they 'also investigated several female suspects.'
It wasn't until 1995 that they were able to identify the Unabomber after receiving his manifesto.
His brother David contacted the FBI and provided letters and documents written by Kaczynski. FBI linguistic analysts were able to determine that the author of the manifesto and the letters David provided were 'certainly the same.'
In an interview with ABC News in February 2016, David's wife Linda Patrik said she was the one who first made the connection the Unabomber might be Ted after the manifesto was printed in the Washington Post and New York Times.
David Kaczynski said: 'When she said, "Well, I think maybe your brother's the Unabomber," I thought, "Well, this is not anything to worry about. Ted's never been violent. I've never seen him violent."'
Kaczynski was sentenced in 1998 and sent to supermax prison known as the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' Florence-ADMAX - or more commonly known as ADX - which houses the 'worst of the worst,' such as the World Trade Center and Boston Marathon bombers
He is now being housed at a federal medical facility FMC Butner (pictured), which is known to house inmates with significant health problems. The Bureau of Prisons did not comment on Kaczynski's health conditions
'I couldn't imagine that he would do what the Unabomber had done.'
They went to the library, where the manifesto was projected, and David said: 'I thought I was going to read the first page of this, turn to Linda and say, "See, I told you so."
'But on an emotional level, it just sounded like my brother's voice. You know, it sounded like the way he argued, the way he talked, the way he expressed an idea.'
In particular, he noticed the repeated use of the phrase 'cool-headed logicians', according to the Guardian.
On April 3, 1996, Kaczynski was arrested and diagnosed with schizophrenia. When investigators 'combed' through the bomber's home, they found 'a wealth of bomb components, 40,000 handwritten journal pages that included bomb-making experiments and descriptions of Unabomber crimes; and one live bomb, ready for mailing.'
Kaczynski was convicted in 1998 and moved into ADX shortly after.
Twenty years after the Unabomber was arrested, he reached out to journalist Lawrence Wright, a writer for the New Yorker, from the supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, claiming he is 'NOT mentally ill' and wants to dispute his brother's statements.
It read: 'I am ready to speak to someone from the media regarding my brother's recent comments and to discuss how they are being used to torment me.'
'I am only granting one interview to one person. In order to determine who will get the interview, I am asking you to write me back affirming that you understand that I am NOT mentally ill, as my brother Dave, would have you believe.'
He also urged Wright to introduce himself and explain why he should be trusted.
Wright declined the interview.
Kaczynski also wrote a letter to a love interest and said he didn't regret his actions.
Writing to a love interest from behind bars he revealed he doesn't regret a single moment of his bombing campaign.
'Do I feel that my actions were justified? To that I can give you only a qualified yes,' he wrote in a letter from prison.
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