carbontetrachloride Wrote:It would not surprise me if Emperor Bloomberg had someone send it just to drum up publicity.

TheOTHERmaninblack Wrote:Reports today say that they have a "suspect" who's confessed to sending the letters knowing that they contained ricin. A Texas redhead, one each, female type. With that particular baseline of crazy, how much farther do you need to go? But just to press the point, she seems to be an aspiring actress.

What are the odds that she (or her husband whom she claims forced her to mail the letters) are actual pro-gun folk and not agents provocateur?

Quote:(CNN) -- A Texas actress in a troubled marriage was arrested and charged Friday in connection with ricin-tainted letters that were mailed last month to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, authorities said.

Shannon Richardson, 35, also known as Shannon Rogers and Shannon Guess, initially told the FBI that her husband, Nathaniel, sent the ricin-laced letters, but a polygraph exam found her to be "deceptive" on the matter, court papers said.

Investigators found that her computer storage devices contained the text of threatening letters sent to the president, but the couple's computer records show her husband couldn't have printed them out because he was at work at the time, an FBI arrest affidavit said.

On Thursday, Shannon Richardson told investigators she mailed the ricin-tainted letters, but she claimed that her husband typed the letters and forced her to print and mail them, the affidavit said.

Her husband denied involvement and claimed his wife wanted to end their marriage and leave him, the affidavit said. He told investigators that his wife was "intentionally misleading" them, the court papers said.