Anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins' emotional state is detailed
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
The government releases documents indicating that the scientist's mental illness flared around the time of the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings. Bruce E. Ivins, the bioweapons scientist who apparently killed himself as the government was preparing to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had a long history of mental illness that flared just before mail contaminated with the fatal spores was received in New York, Florida, Connecticut and Washington, D.C.