released. in december 2021 kaczynski was transferred to a federal medical facility in butner, north carolina, used to house inmates with health conditions. i think it s very important for transparency reasons to fully understand the circumstances around the death, but i would caution speculation at this point. we don t have any reason to believe anything untoward happened. andrew mccabe a former fbi deputy director with the bureau as agents closed the unabomber case. it was in 1978 when kaczynski started his campaign of violence by leaving a mail bomb in a parking lot at a chicago university. he would go on to plant explosives on an airplane, university buildings and by computer stores. he also mailed powerful bombs to university professors and business executives. by the time he was arrested in 1996, his 16 devices killed three innocent people and injured 23 others. his own words published in manifesto eventually led fib agents to his off the grid primitive cabin in the woods of