Posted on 07/31/2008 10:29:15 PM PDT by hole_n_one
One of the nation’s top biodefense researchers has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001 that killed five, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the past 18 years worked at the government’s elite biodefense research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of the impending prosecution, people familiar with Ivins, his suspicious death and with the FBI investigation said.
Ivins’ name had not been disclosed publicly as a suspect in the case that disrupted mail service and Senate business three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Maryland scientist had for years played a pivotal role in research to improve anthrax vaccines, preparing anthrax formulations used in experiments on animals.
Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins also had helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator’s office in Washington, D.C.
Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and colleague who declined to be identified out of concern, he said, that he would be harassed by the FBI.
The death -- without any mention of suicide -- was announced to Ivins’ colleagues at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, through a staffwide e-mail.
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Hmmm
here is a link.
http://www.businessreform.com/article.php?articleID=10744
http://www.stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html
“just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001”
Whoa.
“Ivins also had helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator’s office in Washington, D.C.”
Weird. Maybe mishandling evidence or something? Who Knows.
Wow. Hydrocodone OD. Not a fun way to go.
Right on the tail of having to pay damages to someone else they were absolutely convinced did it.
So how has this man been on the radar as a suspect all this time but they kept pursuing another man?
Funny how they NOW have another suspect.
BOOKMARK
Maybe he wanted to suffer.
Or maybe he used his skills as a biochemist to chemically leach the Tylenol out of the Vicodin caplets, leaving only the “good stuff”. An OD of pure hydrocodone would put you to sleep (eternally) fairly quickly, I’d wager.
Either way, it’s a tragic waste of human life.
Yeah, I just heard about this on coast-to-coast....
I wonder if they will present the facts of the case now that he is dead? I can’t help but wonder if they aren’t still stumped but need to pin this on someone.
Well the FBI will always find someone.
Mr.Richard Jewell comes to mind.
barbra ann
Sounds like another govt scapegoat/harrassment/suicide ala Captain McVey of the USS Indianapolis.
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Fox and FRiend reported he died of an overdose of pain killers.
They've been on this guy's tail for awhile. Paying off Hatfill was one of the requirements before arresting Ivins. In other words, admitting that it wasn't Hatfill. That's so that during a trial, Hatfill can't (or couldn't have, since there will be no trial) be used as a "reasonable doubt" excuse.
There is not the entire article...Drudge has a link up to the LA paper where you can read the article in its entirety.
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