Bruce Ivins Back in the News

[Ghostwriter]

I found this interesting. Thought they had laid this to rest.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021506504.html

"Prunetacos" anyone?

[carnation]

I saw it! Aggghhh!!!

[ThetaPrincess24]

I saw that too and immediately thought..."hey that's that crazy prunetacos character from GC that had an unhealthy obsession with Kappa!"

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

I saw that too and immediately thought..."hey that's that crazy prunetacos character from GC that had an unhealthy obsession with Kappa!"

Did he ever find out what Sorority Sally Ride was in? This seemed to be one of his premier obsessions as well. He probably would have really lost it if she turned out to be either a Chi O or a Kappa.

[SOM]

This story line just keep going and going:
The anthrax killings: A troubled mind

Bruce Ivins, who became a respected Army scientist and an authority on the laboratory use of anthrax, had a penchant for vendettas, especially against women.

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.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1007330.story

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by SOM

This story line just keep going and going:
The anthrax killings: A troubled mind

Bruce Ivins, who became a respected Army scientist and an authority on the laboratory use of anthrax, had a penchant for vendettas, especially against women.

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.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1007330.story

This guy gets crazier & crazier the more that comes out about him. I'm glad he is no longer out there plotting the demise of others. I dont think words can describe how sick this man was!

[Ghostwriter]

Wonder if he was the Tylenol killer?

[ThetaPrincess24]

I thought the Unabomber or someone else did that? Or is that no longer the thought?

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

I thought the Unabomber or someone else did that? Or is that no longer the thought?

This is what some were supposing but Kaczynski denies it. Why deny it if you are already serving a life without parole sentence?

The reason I brought it up is because he (Ivins) killed himself with an overdose of Tylenol (if I read the article correctly). Kind of a strange way to commit suicide as it is not nearly as effective/efficient as other OTC medicines. But then maybe he really didn't want to die. Quien sabe?

[honeychile]

^ A woman who killed her husband and put a few other bottles of Tylenol on the shelves to try to make it look random was convicted for the crime, but for some reason, they're checking out the Unabomber now.

The Prunetacos bit has me nauseated!

[Munchkin03]

We're coming up on the ten-year anniversary of the anthrax attacks.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/01/us/ant...html?hpt=hp_c2

"Having joined the sorority as an undergraduate, Haigwood stayed involved as the adult adviser at the UNC chapter. Ivins, she says, always asked her for information about Kappa Kappa Gamma.

"Every time I talked to him, nearly, he would mention it," says Haigwood. "And finally I said, 'You know, Bruce, that's enough!'"

I wonder how different things would be if the FBI had jumped on her tip when she sent it to them...

[HannahXO]

I was just about to post that...chilling

[katydidKD]

the CNN special keeps talking about his unfortunate obsession with KKG. I feel bad for them, this nut is insane. Writing an letter to the editor posing as Haigwood saying KKG thinks hazing is great, so many other things he did to kappa, just nuts.

[LXA SE285]

PBS will be airing a Frontline special about the Ivins case on Tuesday:

The Anthrax Files

[SOM]

New York Times story: Scientists’ Analysis Disputes F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case
A decade after wisps of anthrax sent through the mail killed 5 people, sickened 17 others and terrorized the nation, biologists and chemists still disagree on whether federal investigators got the right man and whether the F.B.I.’s long inquiry brushed aside important clues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/sc...20Ivins&st=cse