Anthrax Letters Traced to Professor on Uncharted South Pacific Island

WASHINGTON - Professor Roy Hinkley, the nerdy Wunderkind whose anthrax-laced letters killed five and sickened 17 others in 2001, died of a suicide yesterday after the FBI zeroed in on him as a suspect in its investigation of the anthrax attacks.

Hinkley sent the poisonous letters to congressional offices and newsrooms from an uncharted South Pacific that he used as his criminal base, according to government informant Willie Gilligan, a former crewman of the charter boat S.S. Minnow.

Mr. Gilligan, an admitted jailhouse snitch serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of movie star Ginger Grant, claims that Hinkley orchestrated some of the most diabolocal crimes in recent history from the island, including the World Trade Center attacks and the Unabomber killings.  Multi-millionaire Thurston Howell, III, will be charged as a conspirator for his role in funding Hinkley’s terrorist activities.

Aug 5

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