Odd: scientist commits suicide after learning would be charged in anthrax attacks
Bruce Ivins - a biotechnology researcher at Fort Detrick in Maryland - apparently committed suicide using Tylenol 3 and died Tuesday. That was after he learned that the government would charge him in the anthrax mailings of a few years ago. According to this the story was uncovered by the L.A. Times, but at post time the headline on their site returns a "page not found". However:
Henry S. Heine, a scientist who had worked with Ivins on inhalation anthrax research at Fort Detrick, said he and others on their team have testified before a federal grand jury in Washington that has been investigating the anthrax mailings for more than a year... Ivins was the co-author of numerous anthrax studies, including one on a treatment for inhalation anthrax published in the July 7 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Related posts on the strange deaths of biodefense researchers, microbiologists, and the like here, here, and here.
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eh (not verified)
Sun, 08/03/2008 - 05:09
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HS 15241 e10k@hotmail.com 2008-08-03T07:09:36-05:00
This is rather odd as well. [1]
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[1] www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD06SAf0p9A
Fred Dawes (not verified)
Wed, 08/06/2008 - 03:12
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HS 15242 dawes57@cox.net 2008-08-06T05:12:19-05:00
He was murdered to keep the real anthrax guy free and working for the real power people, our enemies are many and inside government.