framing him. accusing her of writing and sending letters tainted with ricin to president obama, new york city mayor michael bloomberg and the mayor s director of a gun control group in washington, michael glaze. she s charged with planting evidence in and around her house, creating ricin research on her husband s computer, putting together a tupperware container with ricin ingredients inside. scattering castor beans used to make ricin in the trunk of her husband s car. she allegedly mailed the letters in texas and drove to shreveport, louisiana, and met with the fbi to accuse her husband of sending the ricin letters. the let essasaid in part, quoteu will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone that wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional, god-given right and i will exercise that right until the day i die. what s in this letter is nothing compared to what i ve got planned for you. now, the fbi interviewed her
her husband. her name as we said, shannon richardson, an actress whose stage name is shannon rogers and in court papers the fbi accuses her of writing and sending ricin letters or letters tainted with ricen to president obama, bike he will bloomburg and the director of a gun control group michael glaze and charged also with planting evident in and around the house including creating ricin research on her husband s computer and putting together a tupperware container with ricin ingredients inside and scattering castor beans used to make it in the trunk of her husband s car and mailed the letter from texas and drove to louisiana and met with the fbi to accuse her husband of sending the ricin letters. they read in part will you have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my
richardson met with authorities to say her husband had mailed three ricin laced letters to president obama, mayor michael bloomberg and the head of a gun control advocacy group. the arrest warrant affidavit says shannon richardson placed castor beans in the trunk of her husband s cars and sprinkled riceon power around tools at their tools to ensure he would be apprehended and claimed to find ricin research on the family computer and suspicious material in the house. from the beginning, investigators were suspicious of her story and now believe it was shannon richardson and not her husband who mailed the letters, which contained an ominous threat. you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. the right to bear arms is my constitutional god given right. what s in this letter is nothing compared to what i ve got planned for you. last week mayor bloomberg shrugged off the threat.
you ll have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i ll exercise that right until the day i die. in the text of the letters themselves, in the greeting in the letter, it just says you. so we re assuming that the letters are the same, from the same machine or computer. reporter: police say two of the letters contained an orange, pink oily material within which were traces of ricin which is derived from castor beans. all were sent to the national bioforensic analysis center. investigators trying to figure out who sent them. letters to the president and mayor were intercepted with workers trained to spot and handle suspicious mail. however, the head of the gun control group personally opened the letter addressed to him
envelopes was an orange-ish pink color and also oily. the source tells us that for example, if you crush these castor beans which is where you get ricin, you will get certain trace amounts. when they say trace amount, it is substantially different in terms of its toxicity and its danger than, for example, a weaponized ricin. all right. the investigation goes on. d deb, thanks. ricin is one of the most deadly toxins known to man. using it as a weapon is not easy, as it may sound. since the 9/11 attacks there have been six attempted ricin attacks in the u.s. no one was injured or killed. most of the cases remain unsolved. that said, it has been used successfully as wa weapon. one of the most infamous examples dates back to the cold war. the murder weapon wasn t a tainted letter. it was more along the lines of james bond. it s a fascinating tale. gary tuchman tells it. reporter: georgie was a beloved influential novelist and