Anthrax victims express mixed emotions

[deminks]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-anthrax3-2008aug03,0,4169966.story?track=rss

The linking of scientist Bruce Ivins to the lethal 2001 attacks could bring closure, but some survivors want to weigh the evidence before deciding it's all over.

By Jim Puzzanghera | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 3, 2008

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Victims of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people, expressed mixed emotions about the developments in the case. Richmond's certainty was offset by the wait-and-see attitude of Mary Morris, whose husband, Thomas Morris Jr., died from the lethal spores that seeped out of letters processed at the postal facility where he and Richmond worked.

And the lawyer for the family of another victim, Bob Stevens, said they felt both vindicated at the apparent confirmation of their belief that a government biodefense worker was behind the attacks, and suspicious that Ivins might be a fall guy in a bungled investigation.

"He fits the profile that we had advanced, but they would like to see the evidence," said lawyer Richard D. Schuler, of West Palm Beach, Fla. He has filed a lawsuit, pending in the Florida Supreme Court, seeking damages from the government for the wife and three children of Stevens, a photo editor for the Sun tabloid who died after inhaling anthrax sent to the Boca Raton, Fla., offices of American Media Inc.

"The family definitely wants to be able to see the evidence that the FBI has accumulated, that they're not just trying to make this guy a scapegoat . . . allowing them to close their file and be done with it," Schuler said.

[Hugin]

1. Yes, let's be sure he wasn't a 'lone gunman'.

It's all too tidy that is what he's being made out to be.

[Supersedeas]

2. it is the victims who filled vindicated by the suicide that has filled our local rag