WASHINGTON — Answers to one of the nation’s most high-profile unsolved mysteries are in documents that could be released as early as this week.
Prosecutors were mulling this weekend whether to close the investigation early this week, possibly as early as Monday or Tuesday. If that happens, court documents detailing newly developed scientific evidence that recently led the government to Bruce E. Ivins might be unsealed.
Five people died and 17 others were sickened when anthrax-laced letters began showing up at congressional offices, newsrooms and post offices soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
After wrongly investigating Army scientist Steven Hatfill, the FBI more than a year ago began looking at Ivins, who worked at the same military lab.
Ivins, a decorated scientist who was working on an anthrax cure, killed himself Tuesday.
