Federal investigators have linked Bruce Ivins, the man suspected of mailing four anthrax-laced letters from a Nassau Street mailbox in fall 2001, to the town of Princeton through his alleged longtime obsession with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, The Associated Press reported Monday.
Investigators told the AP that Ivins, a former Army biowarfare scientist who died last week of an apparent suicide, had a fixation with the sorority dating back to his years as a student at the University of Cincinnati.
Officials said they hope the link will help explain why the letters were mailed from Princeton, nearly 200 miles from the Fort Detrick lab in Frederick, Md., where officials believe the anthrax was stolen. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case, one of the largest criminal investigations in the nation’s history.
Federal investigators have linked Bruce Ivins, the man suspected of mailing four anthrax-laced letters from a Nassau Street mailbox in fall 2001, to the town of Princeton through his alleged longtime obsession with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, The Associated Press reported Monday.
Investigators told the AP that Ivins, a former Army biowarfare scientist who died last week of an apparent suicide, had a fixation with the sorority dating back to his years as a student at the University of Cincinnati.
Officials said they hope the link will help explain why the letters were mailed from Princeton, nearly 200 miles from the Fort Detrick lab in Frederick, Md., where officials believe the anthrax was stolen. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case, one of the largest criminal investigations in the nation’s history.