2001 Anthrax Attacks - 679
Generation Why: True Crime
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4.5 • 18.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In the weeks after 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began arriving at newsrooms and Senate offices, killing five people and sending the country into a second wave of panic. The investigation that followed lasted years, consumed governmental resources, and ultimately pointed to a lone government scientist, Dr. Bruce Ivins, who died before he faced trial. The government closed the case in 2011, but not everyone was convinced they got it right.
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| 1:26.4 | I'm doing good, Justin. How are you doing now? |
| 1:29.4 | I'm doing okay. Anything new lately? Not really. Not really, huh? I watched a really interesting |
| 1:38.3 | documentary about the death of Steve McNair. And if you're a football fan, or you just read the news a lot, |
| 1:45.1 | you might know of this guy, but the story of his murder, I've found pretty interesting. So |
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