Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was found dead in his prison cell, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His cause of death was not immediately known.

Kaczynski, 81, known for orchestrating a series of bombings over a roughly 20-year stretch before being caught, was pronounced dead on Saturday when he was found by employees of the North Carolina prison where he was being held, according to ABC News. 

Three people died over the course of his 16 bombings, and was discovered after a family member recognized his writing as similar to the Unabomber’s manifesto.

According to the FBI, Kaczynski “mailed or hand-delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that killed three Americans and injured nearly two dozen more. Along the way, he sowed fear and panic, even threatening to blow up airliners in flight.”

Kaczynski’s first attack was in 1978 but he wasn’t arrested until 1996. The attacks took place across the country, including in Illinois, Utah, Tennessee, California, Washington, and Michigan, at universities and on planes.

“On April 3, 1996, investigators arrested Kaczynski and combed his cabin. There, they found a wealth of bomb components; 40,000 handwritten journal pages that included bomb-making experiments and descriptions of Unabomber crimes; and one live bomb, ready for mailing,” the FBI explained.

He was convicted and sentenced to four life sentences in prison in 1998 and sent to a maximum security facility in Colorado.

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The bomber pleaded guilty, rather than pursue an insanity plea. “I’m confident that I’m sane,” Kaczynski told Time magazine after his sentence. “I don’t get delusions and so forth.”

Kaczynski worked as a mathematics professor in the late 1960s at the University of California, Berkeley. He later resigned and lived in a remote cabin in rural Montana. He was skeptical of industrial society and detailed his critiques in a manifesto called “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which was published by the Washington Post as part of the effort to capture the then-unknown bomber. He believed that the development of technology had been harmful to humans. 

Kaczynski studied at Harvard, where he was reportedly put through experimentation to see how humans handled stress, something that has been credited with being partially responsible for the development of his worldview. The experiment involved verbal abuse and humiliation.

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Police in Michigan are investigating the discovery of roughly 300 absentee ballots from the 2020 election that were found in a storage locker.

The ballots were discovered in a storage locker in Thetford Township in August 2022 but just disclosed after the town’s supervisor, Rachel Stanke, filed a freedom of information request and discussed the findings at a municipal meeting this week. The ballots, which were found in a locker owned by the deputy town clerk, appear to mostly be spoiled ballots, Michigan State Police said. 

Stanke, who was tipped off in 2021 that some absentee ballots might be missing, said that it was important to bring the discovery to light so citizens could trust future elections.

“That’s why I want to bring this to their attention,” she said, according to Michigan News Source. “And I want them to be able to make sure that their elections are run fairly and smoothly.”

With spoiled absentee ballots, voters could be sent a new one or go pick one up. “Say they didn’t receive their ballot or they lost it or their dog ate it. They would have to come into the township and write a letter I believe show their ID and be issued a new ballot,” Stanke said. 

The Michigan attorney general’s office will decide if any criminal charges need to be filed or if any laws were broken, according to ABC 12 News. The investigation by Michigan State Police is still ongoing. 

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Stanke said that the ballots had been accidentally stored at the facility by a former city employee. 

“She was not aware when she was asked to store them in there. She thought they were old township documents,” she said. 

Members of the community want assurances that there will be more oversight about how and where ballots are stored. 

“Now this is all coming out and … I’m kind of happy that it’s coming out because the election is right around the corner again,” said Katie Hicks, a candidate for township clerk in 2020 who lost by just 19 votes. “And it concerns me that this will take place again for 2024.”

Thetford Township, a town of about 7,000 people, is located just north of Flint, Michigan.