this could have been devastating. mom could have died. reporter: steve holland s mother is the mississippi judge who received one of the letters. dutschke ran against him in 2007. he was a mad personality. vicious kind of guy. he attacked me personally and even my entire family. reporter: last week charge as were dropped against the first suspect in the case, an elvis impersonator. curtis said he had been framed and pointed to dutschke as a possible suspect. they searched the marshal arts studio dutschke used to run and his home in tupelo. i met with the fbi and i consulted to a search and signed a piece of paper saying, go ahead, search the house. i don t have anything at all to do with this. reporter: an attorney representing the 41-year-old on