Anthrax to Zodiac

So who actually mailed the anthrax letters? In the first part of the investigation, the government focused its attention on bacteriologist Dr. Steven Hatfill. But, eventually, the FBI admitted that Dr. Hatfill was not involved at all, publicly exonerated him, and paid him almost five million dollars in damages for illegally leaking his name to the press. Next, the task force unequivocally declared...

In Chapter 2, we take a look at the actual mailings and examine the total extent of the contamination and total cost of the cleanup. We also explore the general investigative strategies that guided the FBI's Amerithrax investigation and consider the amazing scope of the failed efforts of the task force.   To access full show notes click here .

This post contains the second half of Chapter 1 of  Anthrax to Zodiac . Here, we examine the meat of the timeline of events involved in the mailings and learn, step by step and day by day, how the bioweapons successfully penetrated the halls of power in the US government and leading media outlets while federal agents, caught flat-footed by the attacks, struggled to discern what was actually happen...

On September 11, 2001, Americans watched in disbelief as jumbo jets crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The country was under attack.  Families huddled around their televisions, waiting to see if other hijacked planes were still in the sky, on a collision course with more iconic symbols of American democracy. In the weeks immediately following 9/11, in a...

Welcome to "Anthrax to Zodiac," a thrilling investigative series that takes you on a journey into the most perplexing and captivating unsolved crimes in American history. Join Denise Diana Huddle, a renowned private investigator and archival researcher, as she delves into seven chilling mysteries that have haunted America. From the unsettling anthrax letters that shook the nation in the aftermath...