Investigators on Wednesday unsealed the final search warrants executed against the man they say is responsible for the 2001 anthrax-by-mail attacks, disclosing that Bruce Ivins sent an e-mail to himself last year claiming that he had solved the notorious case. ...more

September 25, 2008

FBI scientists early on had - but destroyed - the unique strain of anthrax used in the deadly 2001 attacks that years later would lead them to Bruce Ivins, the government's top suspect in the nation's biggest bioterror case. ...more

August 19, 2008

Victims of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks said Thursday that they are satisfied with the investigation's outcome that pinned the blame on an Army scientist. And now, the widow of a dead photo editor said, it's time for the government to settle her lawsuit and pay up. ...more

August 8, 2008

Government officials asserted Wednesday that a troubled bioweapons scientist acted alone to perpetrate a terrorism scheme that killed five people, a case that centered on a near-perfect match of anthrax spores in his custody and a record of his late-night laboratory work just before the toxic letters were mailed. ...more

August 7, 2008

Lacking hard proof, federal prosecutors relied on the process of elimination and circumstantial evidence to finger Bruce Ivins as the anthrax killer. ...more

August 7, 2008

Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008

The evidence amassed by FBI investigators against Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

Answers to one of the nation's highest profile unsolved crimes are in documents that could be released as early as this week - and help explain how the government chased the wrong suspect for years, officials said. ...more

August 3, 2008

The Justice Department agreed Friday to pay biological-weapons expert Steven Hatfill a settlement valued at $5.85 million to drop a lawsuit he filed after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft named him a "person of interest" in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

June 28, 2008