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CBC

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4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of 9/11, anthrax-laced letters unleashed a new wave of terror across the nation. But who was behind the attacks — and why has America nearly forgotten this story?

As government buildings shut down and law enforcement scrambled to track the perpetrator, the FBI launched one of the largest and most complex investigations in its history. Untangling a web of scientific evidence and false leads, the case took unexpected turns with lasting consequences.

From Wolf Entertainment, USG Audio, Dig Studios and CBC, this eight-part series grants unprecedented access to declassified materials and firsthand accounts, revealing how the anthrax attacks reshaped America—and the hidden impact that still lingers today.

More episodes of Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/JRKpUZ

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0:00.0	Scott Payne spent nearly two decades working undercover as a biker, a neo-Nazi, a drug dealer, and a killer.
0:08.4	But his last big mission at the FBI was the wildest of all.
0:12.9	I have never had to burn Bibles.
0:15.7	I have never had to burn an American flag.
0:17.9	And I damn sure was never with a group of people that stole a goat,
0:21.4	sacrificed it in a pagan ritual, and drank his blood, and I did all that in about three days with
0:25.6	these guys.
0:26.9	Listen to Agent Pale Horse, the second season of White Hot Hate.
0:31.1	Available now.
0:34.8	This is a CBC podcast.
0:40.2	In the fall of 2001, while Americans were still grappling with the horror of 9-11, another terror was quietly brewing.
0:47.8	Soon, envelopes filled with white powder, started showing up at media outlets and government buildings.
0:53.1	The letters dominated the news cycle, created mass panic, and killed innocent people just opening their mail.
0:58.6	But what's strange is if you ask people now what happened with the anthrax case,
1:02.7	almost no one knows.
1:04.0	It's like the whole story just disappeared.
1:06.7	Who mailed those letters?
1:08.3	Do you know?
1:09.8	I'm Jeremiah Crowell. I'm a documentary filmmaker and host
1:12.9	of Aftermath Hunt for the Anthrax Killer. In this series, I'll take you inside one of the
1:17.7	largest, twistiest investigations in FBI history, with the agent, scientists, and experts who were there.
1:24.2	From the science that cracked it, to the mistakes that almost derailed it, to the lives nearly
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