Dead Anthrax Scientist Linked to Princeton Sorority
Anyone familiar with Bruce Ivins, the U.S. Army biodefense researcher responsible for sending the anthrax-infected letters of 2001 that killed five people and infected 17 others? In an after-the-fact aside to the F.B.I.’s seven-year investigation, which ended prematurely with Ivins’ suicide last week, multiple unnamed sources told The Associated Press that our favorite Unabomber wannabe “was obsessed with Kappa Kappa Gamma, going back as far as his own college days at the University of Cincinnati when he apparently was rebuffed by a woman in the sorority.”
This might explain why four of the infected letters were sent from a mailbox close to the Princeton chapter. But whether there’s a deeper meaning to this we’ll never know, since Kappa Kappa Gamma members aren’t talking, and because Ivins allegedly peaced out with the help of a bunch of Tylenols with Codeine.
I guess this gives Princeton the dubious honor, along with Harvard, of being somewhat tenuously associated with postal-using psychopaths. If you hear of any others make sure to contact us at tips@ivygateblog.com. Oh, and the F.B.I.
CORRECTION: Ivins died before the Justice Department could formally press capital murder charges.
