# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-kaczynski
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:03:08.045Z

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description: "A mathematics prodigy who walked away from academia in 1969 to live in a cabin without electricity, then murdered three people and injured 23 others in a 17-year mail bombing campaign targeting what he saw as technological civilization's assault on wilderness and human freedom."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, and showed early brilliance in mathematics before abandoning his academic career in 1969 for a reclusive primitive life. In 1971 he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, learning survival skills and seeking self-sufficiency. After witnessing the destruction of the wilderness around him, he concluded that living in nature was becoming impossible and turned to terrorism, beginning a nationwide mail bombing campaign in 1978 that would span 17 years and become the FBI's longest and most expensive investigation. In 1995 he sent a letter promising to stop if major newspapers published his 35,000-word manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, which opposed all forms of technology and advocated violent revolution; The Washington Post printed it that September, and his brother David recognized the prose style and reported him to the FBI. Arrested in 1996, he fought his lawyers' insanity defense, pleaded guilty in 1998, and received consecutive life sentences without parole. He died by suicide in prison on June 10, 2023, months after stopping treatment for cancer.