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Ted Kaczynski

81 years old · died June 10, 2023 · Federal Medical Center Butner, Granville County, North Carolina

Ted Kaczynski, 81, attended Harvard from the age of 16 and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan. His sister-in-law, Linda Patrik, and his brother, David Kaczynski, are named in reporting on his death. He died early on June 10, 2023, in his cell at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, where he had been moved in December 2021 because of poor health. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A source told ABC News the death was being investigated as a possible suicide, and no official cause of death had been announced.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A source told ABC News the death was being investigated as a possible suicide, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported it the same way, though no official cause of death had been announced.

Reported by: Federal Bureau of Prisons (the agency that held him); A source told ABC News.

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