The criminal investigation found no suspicious letters or activity to connect the case-patient to any of the known anthrax-laden postmarked letters, and no evidence existed that she had visited any of the media sites in NYC affected by this outbreak.
State officials have released only scant details about the worker in New Jersey believed to have pulmonary anthrax, describing her as a mail handler in her 40's who sorted mail near the machine that postmarked the contaminated letter to Tom Brokaw on Sept. 18 and the letter to Senator Tom Daschle on Oct. 8.
And he had lived right next door to a family that Postal Service officials said had received a letter postmarked in Hamilton, N.J., at nearly the same instant that the toxic letter to Senator Daschle had been processed.
NBC, which received one letter postmarked from Trenton on Sept. 17, apparently containing anthrax, later received a second letter with a St . Petersburgpostmark that contained powder that tests showed was benign.
Is there a letter postmarked Milwaukee?
Weeks later, Melinda's mother received a letter, postmarked Cairo.
Six months later, he received a two-page, single-spaced, typewritten letter postmarked Reutlingen, Germany.
Then, in late January of 2006, a typed letter, postmarked in Las Vegas, arrived at the F.B.I. field office in Seattle.
B wrote again on Oct. 24, 1985, in a letter postmarked New York.
In Rio de Janeiro, the offices of The New York Times received a letter, postmarked New York City, that tested positive for anthrax traces.
