TOP 7 NOTORIOUS INMATES OF FLORENCE ADX: THE ALCATRAZ OF THE ROCKIES

I was wondering the other day who are the most notorious criminals serving life inside the Super Max Prison known as the ADX in Florence Colorado. There are 4 prisons located in that complex with over 3,000 total prisoners. However, only 382 are assigned to the ADX. The inmate's life inside the ADX is a whole lot like living in an average bathroom. They do get a small tv with very limited channels.

Just a two-hour drive from Denver, 376 of the United States’ most notorious criminals are held at the country’s only federal supermax prison, the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility—otherwise known as the ADX.

As of mid-July, Colorado gained yet another infamous resident, when Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was relocated here after being sentenced to life plus 30 years on international drug trafficking charges earlier in the month.

The 37-acre compound, located on the outskirts of the old mining town of Florence in Fremont County, was opened in November 1994 and houses many of the country’s most high-profile inmates, including those convicted of federal high crimes and deemed too violent to live among a general prison population.

Prisoners at the ADX—we’re talking bombers, serial killers, terrorists, mobsters, cult leaders, and drug kingpins—live in near-continuous solitary confinement, spending 23 or more hours a day isolated in soundproof, one-man cells that are only 7-by-12 feet, with a small, four-inch slit for a window. Aka Hi-Tek Hell. Read More

7 Most Notorious Inmates:

Eric R. Rudolph: Olympic Park bomber, serving two life sentences

Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American Christian Terrorist convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed three people and injured 150 others.

Theodore "Ted" John Kaczynski: Domestic terrorist, aka the “Unabomber,” serving eight life sentences is an American domestic terrorist, anarchist, and former mathematics professor.[2][3][4] He was a mathematics prodigy, but he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive lifestyle. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in an attempt to start a revolution by conducting a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology.

Robert P. Hanssen: Double agent/spy, serving 15 consecutive life sentences. On February 18, 2001, Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union and its successors. He pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage on July 6, 2001, and was sentenced to prison without the possibility of parole.

Terry L. Nichols: Oklahoma City bomber/domestic terrorist, serving 161 consecutive life sentences is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Ramzi Yousef & Mohammed Salameh: Two of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers; serving life sentences are Kuwaiti convicted terrorists of Pakistani origin who were the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, and was a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot.

Evil Dr Michael Swango: the poisoning guy Serial killer, serving three consecutive life terms. Joseph Michael Swango (born October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and a former physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he only admitted to causing four deaths. He was sentenced in 2000 to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev: Death Row Terrorist, aka the Boston bomber, sentenced to death born July 22, 1993 is a Kyrgyz-American terrorist of Chechen descent who was convicted of planting pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, along with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The bombings killed three people and injured approximately 280 others.

THE FBI TEN MOST WANTED LIST TURNS 70!

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, and William Kinsey Hutchinson, International News Service (the predecessor of the United Press International) editor-in-chief, who were discussing ways to promote capture of the FBI's "toughest guys".

This discussion turned into a published article, which received so much positive publicity that on March 14, 1950, the FBI officially announced the list to increase law enforcement's ability to capture dangerous fugitives.

The First Top Ten Most Wanted

Morley Vernon King

William Nesbit

Henry Randolph Mitchell

Omar August Pinson

Lee Emory Downs

Orba Elmer Jackson

Glen Roy Wright

Henry Harland Shelton

Morris Guralnick

Individuals are generally only removed from the list if the fugitive is captured, dies, or if the charges against them are dropped; they are then replaced by a new entry selected by the FBI. In ten cases, the FBI removed individuals from the list after deciding that they were no longer a "particularly dangerous menace to society". Machetero member Víctor Manuel Gerena, added to the list in 1984, was on the list for 32 years, which was longer than anyone else. Read More

UNABOMBER: IN HIS OWN WORDS NEW SERIES FEATURES IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS

I just watched this new series about the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski on Netflix but it was produced for the Reelz Channel.  The Unabomber: In His Own Words and I loved it.


The Manhunt: Unabomber series on Netflix is great as well, both together are totally perfect.

Let me say one thing about this case... Linda Kaczynski solved this case!!, without Linda recognizing Ted's writing and attitude, they may never have found him in that shack in Montana. Thank you Linda are you the HERO of this story to me. Though kudos to the FBI and Newspapers that published the Manifesto.

Ted is heard narrating and commenting on certain topics. He laughs all the time and his voice seems awfully high pitched. Kind of surprising to me. He seems like a "fun" guy. It is a great show for my fellow True Crime fans.

Theodore John “Ted” Kaczynski Is the “Unabomber.” A man that gave up a promising academic career to carry out a reign of terror that killed three people and injured 23 others all because he believed that industrialization and modern–‐technology were the true evils of society.

A nationwide manhunt searching for the terrorist only known as the “Unabomber” last from 1978 –‐ 1995 until a tip led the FBI to a remote 10×12 foot cabin in the Montana mountains. The tip that took down the Unabomber came from Kaczynski’s younger brother David and David’s wife Linda.

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THE UNABOMBER'S MANIFESTO IS PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPER 9-19-1995

Ted Kaczynski 

The Washington Post published a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23.

After reading the manifesto, David Kaczynski's wife realized the writing style was similar to that of her brother-in-law, she convinced her husband to notify the F.B.I.

Ted's Cabin and FBI Special Agent Jim Fitzgerald

On April 3, 1996, Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his isolated cabin near Lincoln, Montana, where investigators found evidence linking him to the Unabomber crimes.

There is a great series on Netflix MANHUNT: THE UNABOMBER it is really good and explains just how little evidence the FBI really had on Ted.

Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago. A talented math student, he entered Harvard University at age 16. In 1967, after receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Kaczynski was hired as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

THE STORY OF JAMES FITZGERALD AND THE UNABOMBER

However, he resigned abruptly in 1969 and eventually began living as a hermit in a small Montana cabin that lacked electricity and running water. Kaczynski received occasional financial support from his family.

FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald who figured out the linguistics link to Unabomber

From 1978 to 1995, the Unabomber carried out 16 bombings and mail bombings across the U.S. and became the subject of a massive F.B.I. manhunt. The F.B.I. codenamed him UNABOM because his targets included universities and airlines. Over the years, his victims included professors, scientists, corporate executives, and a computer store owner, among others.

On September 19 of that year, after discussions with the F.B.I. and Attorney General Janet Reno, the Post, in collaboration with the Times, published the manifesto, which railed against industrialized society.