Strange Story: FBI: Wife Tried to Frame Husband for Ricin Letters

[cali]

Shannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her suspicions: He was the one who had mailed ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg threatening violence against gun-control advocates.

When investigators looked closer, they reached a different conclusion: It was the 35-year-old pregnant actress who had sent the letters, and she tried to frame her estranged husband in a bizarre case of marital conflict crossing with bioterrorism.

Those allegations are detailed in court documents filed Friday as Richardson was arrested and charged with mailing a threatening communication to the president. The federal charge carries up to 10 years in prison, U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman Davilyn Walston said.

Richardson, a mother of five who has played bit roles on television and in movies, is accused of mailing the ricin-laced letters to the White House, to Bloomberg and to the mayor's Washington gun-control group last month.

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[graham4anything]

1. as with everything else in 2013, it is all about the guns and bullets, and always was nt

[cali]

3. it has little to do with guns and bullets. It's about a woman trying to frame

her husband while they're in the midst of a divorce.


You look at virtually everything through a gun prism ergo, everything looks like it's about guns to you. Even this. Sad.

[graham4anything]

5. It's about guns when it is sent to 2 of the biggest anti-gun people in the world

Otherwise they would have picked someone else.

It seems obvious to me.

They didn't pick the names out of a hat, it wasn't random.

It was the Great Equalizer and the President.

[sufrommich]

7. I can't figure out what her motivation was for

choosing pro gun reform politicians,it could be that her husband is very anti gun reform and she knew that would add fuel to the fire.At first I thought he was the guy who framed the Elvis impersonator,who also sent ricin through the mail.This is now 2 ricin incidents where the sender was trying to frame someone.Weird.

[NaturalHigh]

9. Very little to do with guns.

She was just using the anti-gun control thing to frame her husband.

[premium]

12. It has nothing to do with guns and bullets,

it has everything to do with a wife attempting to frame her husband.

[rucky]

2. Are they casting the Lifetime Movie yet?

[NaturalHigh]

8. Didn't this actress have a bit part in the Walking Dead?

Maybe they can get the woman from Mad Men to play her in the movie. I think both shows are on AMC. It would add an extra bit of irony.

[madville]

4. I remember reading the original story about this

The guy claimed he was being framed by his wife and now it turns out to possibly be true. Seemed far fetched at the time for sure.

[DCKit]

6. Only five kids? That's hardly a quiver-full.

Either she's escaping, or she's nuts.

[In_The_Wind]

10. Not her finest acting moment.

[etherealtruth]

11. There are times when the ony response is:WTF?

This is one of them