Who was Ted Kaczynski? How the 'Unabomber' went from Harvard prodigy to ... trends now

Infamous domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski was found dead Saturday morning in his cell in federal prison, 27 years after his reign of terror was brought to an end. 

Known across America as the 'Unabomber' while authorities desperately sought him from 1978 to 1996, he waged war on unsuspecting victims by mailing explosives via the US postal system. 

Over an 17-year campaign, Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 more with 16 bombs. 

But his descent into madness came after he became known as a prodigious Harvard-educated mathematician with a genius-level intellect, leading many to question where it went wrong for the terrorist.  

Born on May 22, 1942, Ted Kaczynski was the son of second-generation Polish Catholics. 

His father was a sausage maker and his mother was a homemaker, and he grew up in Chicago with his younger brother David. 

From a young age it quickly became apparent that Kaczynski was a genius-level mathematician, and he skipped the sixth and 11th grades on his way to attending Harvard aged just 16. 

However, high school classmates remember the virtuoso as an outcast, with one ominous incident seeing him show a fellow student how to make a mini-bomb that detonated during chemistry class. 

Harvard classmates recalled him as a lonely, thin boy with poor personal hygiene and a room that smelled of spoiled milk, rotting food and foot powder. 

He went on to graduate school at the University of Michigan, before he got a job teaching math at the University of California at Berkeley. 

In 1971, an unemployed Kaczynski bought a 4-mile parcel of land in the wilderness outside Lincoln, Montana, where he built a cabin without heating, plumbing or electricity. 

While briefly working for his father and brother in Chicago in the late 1970s, he was abruptly dumped by a female colleague after two dates. When Ted began posting

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