Posted on 06/07/2013 1:58:34 PM PDT by marktwain
FBI agents arrested Shannon Elizabeth Guess Richardson (pictured) this morning in connection with the ricin-tainted letters sent to the White House and the offices of Michael Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns. According to NPR (yes, that NPR) her husband and original person of interest Nathan Richardson has been cleared of suspicion. The FBI now believes that Shannon sent the poison letters as part of a plot to frame her husband and divorce him, and that the letters’ rants about gun control were a red herring.
That’s right: guns, racism and gun control had nothing to do with the poisoned letters. These assassination attempts aren’t the handiwork of white racists or ‘bitter clingers’ but instead could be the crimes of a madwoman who was willing to kill innocent strangers in order to ruin her husband.
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Is that mug shot a joke?
Clearly it is time to outlaw letters, stamps and the post office.
Wasn’t she in ‘American Pie?’
bump
The walking Dead
not guilty
“Clearly it is time to outlaw letters, stamps and the post office.”
Don’t forget about those large capacity manila envelopes.
bttt
I wonder if she’s a real redhead?
Application for BJ Clinton post-POTUS pardon submitted and under consideration.....
A washout today in Pocono but at least it should be good in Texas for the Trucks tonight.
How do the authors of this article know that a gripe about gun control had nothing to do with this, that it was just a ploy to frame the husband? Did the FBI say that?
In this modern era, with a long race, qualifying on time vs starting on owner points doesn’t make much of a difference does it? There were 43 entries so nobody going home anyway.
Not guilty, but clearly bat-bleep insane.
Don’t know about this article, but I heard on a radio news report that under questioning by the FBI she made incriminating statements concerning her own involvement, when she is the one who called the authorities about believing her husband was the ricin letter sender. So if you read between the lines, you’ve got LE becoming suspicious of her creating a set up to incriminate her husband and as they dealt with her they found enough to believe SHE’s the letter sender and it was a plot to frame hubby.
Not Guilty
Oh and part of the plot was to make her husband’s motive appear to be that he was a pro-gun nutcase. Thus the ricin letters targeted famous anti-gun figures and made threats of shooting people who tried to come near him and get his guns.
I find that last part interesting - suppose he really does have guns and has said he would not let anyone take them, would shoot them first. Maybe the ditz was trying to spark a confrontation in which there would be an actual shootout over her husband’s guns, and either he would shoot someone who came to his house or he would be shot and killed.
But the truth is he would not have instigated anything, it would have all been instigated by her.
But her story didn’t hold up under LE questioning, obviously.
I remember hearing that she told authorities originally that there was some smelly unknown substance in her refrigerator and that her husband had looked up ricin on the computer.
Obviously she had done whatever was done, herself.
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