Anthrax Case Solved?

[caz]

Hi Stan,

This sounds quite plausible to me. Many people harbour personal grudges and occasionally they build up and up until someone else does something explosive and attention-grabbing about their own 'issues', giving ideas to others with personal powder kegs of their own.

Here's a very interesting and topical piece that touches on product tampering:

http://www.johannhari.com/

Love,

Caz
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[sdreid]

I don't know if you want to call mail a product but in virtually all the product tampering cases that have been solved, the killer proved to be someone who was targeting one of the victims with the other murders being for cover. This was true of Christina Edmunds back in 1871 and Stella Nichell in 1986 as well as some of the trick-or-treat poisonings. In fact, this is a recent epiphany with me regarding the 1982 Chicago Cylenol Poisonings. Perhaps authorities should be looking for someone who personally knew one of the victims and not necessarily one of the victims who died.

[sdreid]

I think they believe, these days, that most people will believe anything they're told.

Yes they do and there might be some truth to that.

[Celesta]

I guess this guy had the stuff all packaged up and ready to go so he could just pop it in the post in case some terrorists decided to fly airliners into the WTC someday.

Unless the WTC was just a catalyst? Maybe we're supposed to believe that.

I think they believe, these days, that most people will believe anything they're told.

[sdreid]

Too bad the dead can't sue.

[sdreid]

I guess this guy had the stuff all packaged up and ready to go so he could just pop it in the post in case some terrorists decided to fly airliners into the WTC someday.

[sdreid]

The five death toll for the case included two DC postal workers, an NYC hospital employee, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman and a Florida photo editor. None of these were known to Ivins as far as can be determined. If he's guilty, he must be one of the most diabolical killers ever.

[sdreid]

I guess a CYA is a bigger concern that possibly letting the actual killer go free.

[sdreid]

I heard on the radio today that the FBI is closing this case even though there's no evidence. Somehow, I thought they were better than that but I was obviously mistaken.

[sdreid]

No autopsy was performed on Ivins either. Why not?

[sdreid]

My grandfather had a cow that he said died of anthrax but I don't know how he knew that. He buried it where it dropped.

[sdreid]

According to reports, he passed a polygraph where he denied having anything to do with the crimes

Actually, Ivins passed two polygraphs according to his lawyer. This is in his favor, although, by no means, exculpatory.

Has anyone heard what this "new technology" was that the Feds used to finger Ivins?

[sdreid]

Are far as the actual contaminated locations, they could trace them back except to Ivins.

[sdreid]

I haven't heard any more about Grassley's commission. Apparently, he's too busy getting us to burn E15.

[sdreid]

I see A6 listed all the time. Is there more than one thread devoted to that case?

Now back to Anthrax. Does anyone know of another case where this was used as a murder weapon? There are some other cases, like Dr. Hyde, where a bacterium was used to slay a victim but I don't recall any with this agent.