Via the LA Times:
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A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the last 18 years worked at the government’s elite biodefense research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md., had been informed of his impending prosecution, said people familiar with Ivins, his suspicious death and the FBI investigation.
Let us not forget those who perished in this act of senselessness.
* Bob Stevens, 63, picture editor of the Sun newspaper
* Thomas Morris Jr, 55, Washington
* Joseph Curseen, 47, Washington
* Kathy Nguyen, 61, worked in a New York hospital
* Ottilie Lundgren, 94, lived in a rural community in Connecticut.
I have to honestly say that I am quite sorry that this man died, I was truly hoping that they would catch whomever did this and he would be placed on trial. I guess he was a coward. There is, I believe, a very hot placed reserve for him… IN HELL.
(H/T Memeorandum)
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