Merged (Ed) Ricin poisoned letters

I heard they are still waiting for definitive results. I wouldn't be terribly shocked if the tests came up negative. It wouldn't be the first time someone mailed a "poisoned" letter that turned out to be a hoax.
 
Some interesting investigative blogging here.

This link leads to an article called The BARBARIANS Guarding the Gates of Dialogue by Jim Kirwan. It is an article, or rather a bit of a rant, about censorship and freedom of speech. It also discusses political correctness and about Kirwan getting into a debate with another page’s moderator. The moderator’s name was Kevin Curtis. Curtis describes himself as a ‘Mississippi activist’, according to Kirwin’s article.
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He sounds like a standard-issue nut here:

Justice is sweet & I waited 10 years to hear news like this. One of the Assistant DA’s listed in Patsy B’s article put a loaded gun to my head in 2003 and more than a half dozen kangaroo court hearings took place “after I” filed charges againt the ada for assault. I was the one who went to jail over and over again b/c the legal/justice/court system in n/e Ms was broken & still is.
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He also believes the local hospital is a chopshop for black market organ harvesting. He kind of comes off as someone who might think to taste the ricin first.
 
I loved reading the partisan commentary on news articles covering the story, speculating that it was probably an ultra-conservative Tea Partier or gun nut intending to assassinate Obama.

Nope, just a random crazy. Just like in the Giffords shooting. And the Reagan shooting.
 
The Guy is an Elvis Impersanator?

There have got to be some good parodies in the offing....

Considering what he did, "Return to Sender" seems really ripe.....

C
 
NBC news just reported that senator Wicker hired Curtis as an Elvis impersonator about a decade ago.

Steve S
 
http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-ricin-suspect-released-jail-171027275.html

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A federal official says the man charged with sending poison letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge has been released from jail.

Jeff Woodfin, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Oxford, Miss., says Paul Kevin Curtis has been released from custody.

Woodfin says he doesn't know if there were any conditions on the release.

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http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/04/hearing_for_ricin_suspect_paul.html

FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden referred questions to the U.S. attorney's office.

On Monday, FBI Agent Brandon Grant testified that Friday searches of Curtis' vehicle and house in Corinth, Miss., found no ricin, ingredients for the poison, or devices used to make it. A search of Curtis' computers found no evidence he researched making ricin.

"There was no apparent ricin, castor beans or any material there that could be used for the manufacturing, like a blender or something," Grant testified. He speculated that Curtis could have thrown away the processor.
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