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Around 1225 in the morning on June 10th, 2023, officials at a North Carolina

prison find an 81-year-old man unresponsive in his cell.

Personnel attempt to save the man's life, but it's no use.

He's taken to a hospital where medical professionals pronounce him dead on arrival from an apparent suicide.

The man's name is Ted Kaczynski, but he's better known to the world as the Unabomber. He waged a terror campaign across the

United States for 17 years. He built 16 bombs that caused three deaths and countless permanent scars both mental and physical.

In life he was called a lunatic, a monster, the devil.

But the manifesto he wrote before his capture, in part to justify his actions, led some to consider

him a folk hero. Since his death, more and more people, including tech billionaire

Elon Musk, have taken to the internet to suggest that maybe his anti-industry, anti-technology, and pro-environment ideals were right.

But Candice DeLong, one of the FBI agents who helped capture Kaczynski in 1996 believes he was only motivated by one thing.

I mean he he wanted to kill he was a disturbed individual and killing made him feel good

it all is that simple

I'm Vanessa Richardson and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast. You can find us here every Monday.

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