They happen to have a lyophaser, the equipment that you need to dry anthrax at that lab, that was requisitioned by Ivins. Of course. And in the paperwork says, property of Bruce Ivins.

So it's believed that his motive was that funding and approval for his life's work... Did he wear, like, a complicated costume and then scare children away from his lab? Nope, but his emails got left behind, let's say. God damn it! So his life's work was the development of an anthrax vaccine, and the funding... This is a supervillain origin story. Totally. And the only way to change things, he believed, was that for him to be able to continue his work was if something major happened to scare people about anthrax. Interestingly, this is exactly what happened after the anthrax attacks. They got approval and the funding that they needed to continue their research.

And so, also, when he was hospitalized, he ended up in group therapy. And in that time, he said some really fucked up things, ranging from threats to other people to basic admissions of guilt for having done the anthrax mailing. Quote, as described in detail... Are you ready to share with the rest of the group? Not until I anthrax all of you. This is again from the DOJ report. As described in detail in the mental health section Supra, at a group's therapy session on July 9, 2008, Dr. Ivins made a number of statements regarding the anthrax investigation and noted that he had a detailed plan involving a gun from his son and a bulletproof vest to kill, quote, co-workers and others who had wronged him. When asked by other members of the group what he was concerned about if he was innocent, he reportedly just smiled. Statements that he made also indicated that he had lost time. Quote, the only reason I remember some of this stuff, it's because there's like a clue the next day. Like there's an email or, you know, when you're in bed and you're like this, you know, that's not really fun. It's like, oh shit, did I drive somewhere last night? So he has a bunch of statements that he's made about waking up in his clothes and not knowing what he did the night before or seeing emails that he'd sent.

The idea that Bruce Ivins was murdered and they forced Tylenol down his mouth. In order to believe that, you have to believe that every other thing that Bruce Ivins did isn't real.

There's documents of that. Everything is documented. His emails, the harassment that he gave to these other co-workers, the time stamps of him signing in and out of the lab during suspicious hours.