GUILTY MS - Everett Dutschke for mailing ricin letters, framing rival, Tupelo, 2013

[Justiceforever]

Does anyone else think that these letters and the Boston bombinge are connected?

 

[jnTexas]

Does anyone else think that these letters and the Boston bombinge are connected?

It is possible. Seeing as the letters came through on Tuesday and one is post marked from Tenn. That means they had to mail them end of last week. FRiday maybe saturday. So it is possible the letters were mailed before the bombing and are linked. IDK.....

 

[wfgodot]

I'm going with "highly doubtful, but anything's possible."

The House Homeland Security chair said yesterday there was no evidence of the incidents being related.

 

[wfgodot]

Feds arrest suspect in ricin-positive letters sent to Obama, senator

Federal agents on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the mailing of letters to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator that initially tested positive for the poison ricin.

The suspect was identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Miss., federal officials told NBC News.

Both letters carried an identical closing statement, according to an FBI bulletin obtained by NBC News on Wednesday.

According to the FBI bulletin, both letters, postmarked April 8, 2013 out of Memphis, Tenn., included an identical phrase, "to see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."

In addition, both letters are signed: "I am KC and I approve this message."
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more at the link

 

[wfgodot]

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A few suspicious packages remain on Capitol Hill, and this is obviously the early stages of a longer investigation and, eventually, trial. One thing's for sure, though. If Kenneth Curtis is the guy, he's not the brightest crayon in the box for signing his real initials at the end of the letter. Then again, people want to get caught sometimes.

the rest here: http://m.theatlanticwire.com/nation...-sending-ricin-laced-letters-signed-kc/64335/

 

[Angelonline]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-Wicker-IDd-Paul-Kevin-Curtis-Tupelo-MS.html

Several sites are saying the name Kenneth Curtis is wrong and that it is actually Paul Kevin Curtis. I did a Google search of Kevin Curtis (KC), there is a link for a ripoff report from 2007, which is signed I am Kevin Curtis and I approve this report....

 

[wfgodot]

Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which is as close to a local paper as I can find, has it Paul Kevin Curtis too. Also has him as being from Corinth and not Tupelo.

http://www.clarionledger.com/articl...tis-Corinth-arrested-connection-ricin-letters

 

[wfgodot]

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BBC Breaking News ‏@BBCBreaking 3m
Update: FBI says 3 letters now thought to contain #ricin - sent to president, senator & also justice official

http://bbc.in/15gFS0Q

 

[Snick1946]

Well he'll get about twenty years in a federal slammer to think over whether this was such a good idea. And, he should. You can disagree with politicians all you want but stuff like this has no place in society. He's a mid 40's male- a lot of guys in that age group spend their time getting all riled up on websites, talk radio and sadly, sometimes in their church. After awhile you start to believe the government is evil, Obama is Satan and UN troops are parachuting into your yard to seize your firearms. Maybe he'll get the meds he needs now.

 

[michmi]

So is this something he made or did it get it from somewhere else? I mean, how many people are in possession of ricin in this country?

 

[SurfieTX]

Suspect's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elvisguy4u

 

[Elley Mae]

So is this something he made or did it get it from somewhere else? I mean, how many people are in possession of ricin in this country?

http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/1_3cas.htm

Castor oil plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It would seem that he attempted to make it, or just crushed the seeds. idk What I do know is that I grew the plants for a few years, (still have some seeds for later). The plant is just beautiful and adds a burgundy red to the graden. The plants I grew where 5-6' tall with leaves 14-16" across. When clustered together they are eye catching. There was an article in the local paper a few years back, showed a local man with the plants in his back yard, they wer 15 foot tall. Beautiful. jmo btw they grow wild in parts of the south east, I've seen them in my travels.

 

[21merc7]

They grow wild here too, and they are beautiful plants. I believe castor oil is derived from them.

I grew some once from seeds I collected at the park. That was when I had a yard, and I didn't know about ricin yet. Loved them, even the seeds are pretty.

I'll take a guess that there are instructions on making the powder on the net, not going to look for it.

 

[wfgodot]

The Science of Ricin (New Yorker)

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For someone familiar with chemistry, ricin is relatively easy to extract from castor beans, which can be bought at any large grocery store. This makes it much simpler to handle than anthrax or botulinum toxin. The beans are treated with various chemicals to extract and solidify the protein, then washed with old fashioned dry-cleaning fluid to purify the poison. Filtering produces ricin particles about the size of a bacterium, or household dust. As few as two beans can produce enough ricin to kill a person. According to officials, the ricin in Curtis's letters was low quality, described as less than 1% toxin.
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the rest at the link above

 

[SurfieTX]

TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) -- According to court officials, the man at the center of a national ricin investigation is going before a federal judge at 11:50 a.m. Thursday morning.

Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, of Corinth, was a arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with (1) knowingly depositing for conveyance in the mail and for delivery from any post office any letter, paper, writing or document containing threats to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States and (2) knowingly depositing and causing to be delivered by the Postal Service according to the directions thereon, communications addressed to other persons, and containing a threat to injure the person of others.

Curtis is believed to be responsible for the mailings of the three letters sent through the U.S. Postal Inspection Service which contained a granular substance that preliminarily tested positive for ricin.

http://www.wtva.com/news/local/stor...jp3Ps0KO8rNEaz8aTQ.cspx#.UXAhqhOezUA.facebook

 

[wfgodot]

This is odd....in Daily Mail so who knows. Elvis impersonator?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Mississippi-sent-poisoned-letters-Obama.html

 

[SurfieTX]

Attorney: Paul Kevin Curtis says he is innocent

http://www.wtva.com/news/local/stor...KHCalkmEmv5NFBtT7w.cspx#.UXAwf_gyPd0.facebook

 

[SurfieTX]

This is odd....in Daily Mail so who knows. Elvis impersonator?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Mississippi-sent-poisoned-letters-Obama.html

Yep. So says his Facebook page among other personal sites.

 

[wishuwerehere]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Roger Wicker says he once hired the man accused of mailing suspicious letters as an Elvis impersonator.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/wicker-possible-ricin-suspect-elvis-impersonator

Curtis wore shackles and a Johnny Cash T-shirt Thursday in a federal courtroom in Mississippi.

If Curtis is in fact guilty, he is sullying the names of Elvis and Johnny Cash. I take offense.

 

[Elphaba]

He has a YouTube account... his ability to mimic famous singers is pretty good. BUT... but, the Prince tribute (of Little Red Corvette, which is all kinds of sexual) he did in front of a high school class kind of had a creepy feel to it. Just saying...