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Government & PoliticsPartially True
The 2001 Anthrax Letters
In September–November 2001, letters laced with weapons-grade anthrax spores were mailed to news outlets and US senators, killing five people and infecting seventeen others. The FBI's Amerithrax investigation ultimately focused on Bruce E. Ivins, a USAMRIID scientist who died by suicide in 2008 before charges were filed. A 2011 National Academy of Sciences review found the FBI's scientific case "not as definitive as portrayed."
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History & Ancient CivilizationsUnsubstantiated
D.B. Cooper: The Unsolved Hijacking
On 24 November 1971, a man using the alias "Dan Cooper" hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the aircraft over the Washington-Oregon wilderness, never to be identified. The FBI investigated more than 1,000 suspects over 45 years before formally suspending the investigation in 2016. In 2011, a citizen-science analysis of a partial ransom-bill find and particles on Cooper's abandoned tie produced new leads that also proved inconclusive.
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