The anthrax killings: A troubled mind

[Zorro]

An interesting article about a disturbed mind.

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He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong.

By the mid-1970s, Bruce Ivins had earned his doctorate and was a promising researcher at the University of North Carolina. By outward appearances, he was a charming eccentric, odd but disarming. Inside, he still smoldered with resentment, and he saw a new outlet for it.

Several years earlier, a Cincinnati student had turned him down for a date. He had projected his anger onto the young woman's sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. There was a Kappa house in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Ivins cased the building. One night when it was empty, he slipped in through a bathroom window and roamed the darkened floors with a penlight.

Upstairs, he found something that fascinated him: a glass-enclosed sheaf of documents, called a cipher, necessary for decoding the sorority's secrets. The cipher would help him wage a personal war against Kappa Kappa Gamma into the sixth decade of his life.

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More at:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax-ivins-20110529,0,1007330.story?page=1

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #1 for, thanks, good article. Well, O.K. for now, but I go back and forth.

There was a recent report plus the attendant media items about flaws in the case. It's all so weird, but then CHEENEE-ShrubCo were weird, and this profile of IVINS makes him convincingly weird.

[Hannah Bell]

2. he's dead, and who's going to say different? all these folks = psycho "loners".

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) who was among the targets in the attack. While not outright rejecting the theory of Ivins' involvement, Leahy has asserted that "If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people. I do not believe that at all."<10>

A panel from the National Academy of Sciences reviewed the FBI's scientific work on the case,<11> and "conclude that the bureau overstated the strength of genetic analysis linking the mailed anthrax to a supply kept by Bruce E. Ivins."<12>



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins