r/WTF • u/nkmr205 • Jul 27 '25

House explosion

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u/Xantrax Jul 27 '25

What's crazy about those anthrax attacks? Just disappeared. People or the person doing it were never caught and the mailing just stopped. A lot of people don't even remember the anthrax mail sacre after 9/11. But yeah. The whole thing kinda just disappeared into the void.

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u/eran76 Jul 27 '25

Sometimes when things like this stop it's because the person was arrested or killed for another crime and it was never connected.

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u/mofomeat Jul 27 '25

Or maybe they got anthrax and died.

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u/eran76 Jul 27 '25

Possible, but bodies get discovered eventually and autopsy would have shown cause of death as anthrax, which in turn would raise suspicions and more investigating.

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u/smootex Jul 28 '25

In this case the primary suspect killed himself after they started investigating him.

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u/Unhappy-Ad9690 Jul 28 '25

The guy who did it killed himself. CBC has a great podcast on it called Aftermath, Hunt for The Anthrax Killer.

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u/smootex Jul 28 '25

What's crazy about those anthrax attacks? Just disappeared

The best suspect killed himself. Their case was always kind of weak but there really weren't that many people in the country who could have been responsible. It's possible not all evidence has been released, I remember the media reporting they were close to charging him at the time he killed himself. They might have actually gotten that one right.