2001 Anthrax Attacks | Diving Into the Amerithrax Investigation

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

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Investigating the post-9/11 bioterror attacks that had people afraid to open their mail: The 2001 Anthrax Attacks. Ad-free episodes, bonus content, & more: http://www.redwebpod.com Weeks after September 11th, letters laced with a mysterious powder began arriving at newsrooms and Senate offices. The powder was quickly identified as anthrax and in just days, five people died and 17 others were left ill. The investigation spiraled into one of the most complex and controversial in FBI history. Today, we examine the infamous 2001 Anthrax Attacks. Sensitive topics: suicide, bioterrorism, terrorism, political themes Our sponsors: Shady Rays - Go to http://shadyrays.com and use code REDWEB to get 35% off polarized sunglasses.Shopify - Go to http://shopify.com/redweb to sign up for your $1-per-month trial period.Huel - Go to http://huel.com and use code REDWEB to get 15% off your first order (min. $75 or more).This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp - go to http://betterhelp.com/redweb to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Weeks after September 11th, letters laced with a mysterious powder began arriving at newsrooms and Senate offices.
0:13.8	The powder was quickly identified as anthrax, and in just days, five people died and 17 others were left ill.
0:23.2	The investigation spiraled into one of the most complex and controversial in FBI history. So today, we examined the infamous 2001 anthrax
0:31.4	attacks. This is Red Web.
0:46.4	Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.
0:50.0	I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me hearing this case,
0:54.0	probably not for the first time on this one, Alfredo Diaz.
0:57.9	What up?
0:59.4	Yeah, man, people lacing that sweet powder on these envelopes.
1:03.6	This was...
1:04.0	Not no sweet powder.
1:08.2	Not the good stuff.
1:10.2	Very dangerous. I remember probably middle school at this point just hearing
1:16.1	about this on the news and everyone breaking out about like be careful opening your mail so i didn't
1:23.6	really know much else aside from that i just knew that everyone, like the adults around me were panicking.
1:29.0	And I was just this little kid going, okay, I don't touch mail.
1:32.0	I don't got mail anyways.
1:33.3	So I'm going to go back outside and go play with my friends.
1:37.7	And so it's just something that happened kind of in passing that I heard about.
1:41.5	But I knew it was a big deal around the neighborhoods and the government news, all that kind of in passing that I heard about, but I knew it was a big deal around the neighborhoods
1:45.5	and the government news, all that kind of stuff. I didn't know that it was, it seems, as of
1:51.7	right now, initially hearing this, isolated to more so the government as opposed to your
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