The Mirage Man by David Willman: Anthrax Attacker Bruce Ivins' Obsessions
The troubled psychiatric history of Bruce Ivins, the man responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Bruce Ivins in 2003. Photo: USAMRIID-Reuters-Corbis
On the morning of October 4, 2001, just three weeks after the events of September 11, sixty-three-year-old Robert Stevens lay near his death in a south Florida hospital.