Case Closed

In 2001, one or more persons unleashed a series of attacks - letters filled with deadly anthrax powder - five people died and 22 more were infected. In seven years, the FBI failed to solve the case. Then, in the summer of 2008, the FBI announced that a scientist who had never in those seven years been formally accused or even designated as a "person of interest," and who had just the week before allegedly committed suicide, was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks. According to the FBI, this one scientist prepared the lethal anthrax powder, got it out of the U.S. Army lab near Washington, D.C. where he worked, put it into multiple envelopes, and took those envelopes to a mailbox in Princeton, N.J. There are no witnesses or forensic evidence to connect this scientist with the attacks. It seems impossible that he could even have been in Princeton to mail the letters when the FBI says he was there. And the science the FBI says it used to prove its case is very much unproven. CASE CLOSED presents one possible (fictional) sequence of events to explain the FBI's failure. Says one well-placed source in the Intelligence Community: This story, unfortunately, is "all too plausible."