2001 Anthrax Mailer Commits Suicide Before Arrest!
 

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty against a top Army microbiologist in connection with anthrax mailings that killed five people. The scientist, who was developing a vaccine against the deadly toxin, committed suicide this week.

The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md. For more than a decade, he worked to develop an anthrax vaccine that was effective even in cases where different strains of anthrax were mixed, which made vaccines ineffective, according to federal documents reviewed by the AP.

U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the ongoing grand jury investigation, said prosecutors were closing in on Ivins, 62. They were planning an indictment that would have sought the death penalty for the attacks, which killed five people, crippled the postal system and traumatized a nation still reeling from the Sept. 11 attacks.

more - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/...hrax_scientist

Good to see it was one of our own people.

*rolls eyes*

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D-FENS!

So they did what, broadcast on worldwide media that they were "closing in" and "planning to indict" and "seek the death penalty".. welp, there ya go.. suicide. Idiots.

whoops guess i reposted heh

he should have spoken to a lawyer first. They were working the case from the wrong end to convict him.

So the anthrax attacks are an inside job?

It was pretty obvious it was that guy from the start, they just couldn't prove it. Glad he at least saved the tax payers money on a trial.

Yeah, seems like they were onto him pretty bad when he topped it

You would rather waste the money on a trial and housing him in jail? I only wish this was a foolproof method.