Author: danny bursteindanny burstein Date: Jul 31, 2008 23:34
(forwarding from a post in alt.obituaries)
> Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
> Subject: FOLLOW UP ~ Re: Bruce Ivins - Scientist reportedly commits suicide
> as FBI closes in on 2001 anthrax attacks
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:19:43 -0400
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed
suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges
against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks
following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published
report.
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the
government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland, had been told about
the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday
editions. The laboratory has been at the center of the FBI's investigation
of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people.
Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick (Maryland) Memorial Hospital. The Times,
quoting an unidentified colleague, said the scientist had taken a massive
dose of a prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine.
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