FBI agents are building a “growing circumstantial-evidence case” showing that former government scientist Steven Hatfill is America’s anthrax terrorist, a new report says.
Three specially trained bloodhounds – working separately – were given the scent extracted from anthrax-tainted letters mailed last year.
That scent led all three dogs to Hatfill’s apartment, ABC News said yesterday.
And teams of FBI agents sent to Zimbabwe – where Hatfill attended medical school in the late 1970s and early 1980s – have raised new questions about his claim that he never worked with anthrax, the network said.
Hatfill has strongly denied any involvement in mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17.
“I had absolutely nothing to do with this horrible crime,” he said in August.
Attorney General John Ashcroft has called Hatfill a “person of interest” in the case.