A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.
A top US government scientist has apparently committed suicide just as he was about to be charged over an anthrax scare in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
