Introducing...Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer - Episode 1

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A deadly bioterror attack shook the U.S. and triggered one of the FBI’s most complex investigations. Aftermath takes you inside the high-stakes hunt for the Anthrax killer and the investigative breakthrough that cracked the case.

Episode 1: Isolated Incident - Right after 9/11, the FBI scrambles to stop a second-wave attack using a deadly toxin. When a Florida photo editor is poisoned by a rare bacteria, agents uncover a possible al-Qaeda plot to spread anthrax from the air. But are they already too late?

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0:00.0	I mean, this was a huge crime scene.
0:08.1	Most people don't think about it as a crime scene, but it was a crime scene of seven blocks.
0:14.1	The unthinkable happened today.
0:15.8	The World Trade Center, both towers, gone.
0:18.9	Thousands are dead and injured. The skyline of New York and the psyche of the American population
0:24.6	has been forever changed.
0:26.6	Now it's obvious, I think.
0:28.6	I think we have a terrorist act of proportions
0:31.6	that we cannot begin to imagine at this juncture.
0:36.6	It was the evening of September 11th, about 12 hours after the terrorist attacks,
0:42.3	and Scott Decker, a special agent with the FBI, was already on the move.
0:47.3	He'd packed his bags and said goodbye to his family in Virginia.
0:52.3	I was told to grab four of the guys,
0:55.0	load up our Suburban's with evidence collection equipment,
0:59.0	hazmat gear, Tyvex suits, masks, gloves.
1:03.0	We loaded up the trucks that evening,
1:06.0	O Dark 30, September 12, we started heading up to New York.
1:10.0	I think five black Subururbans in a row.
1:13.3	While everyone else was trying like hell to get out of New York City, Decker drove all night to get in.
1:20.6	As we went through Maryland, we went through Delaware on Route 95, the main corridor.
1:25.5	We got to the Delaware Memorial Bridge and the big alert sign above the traffic.
1:30.5	And usually the letters are in yellow,
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