IT has been three-and-a-half years since someone mailed anthrax around the US, killing five innocent people, and the criminal still hasn’t been caught. But that has not stopped an intrepid band of obsessives from tirelessly chewing over the case on the internet. Now the dean of the bunch, a retired computer guy in Wisconsin, has laboriously self-published his take on the story.
Ed Lake is clearly an amateur. People, places and events are introduced without explanation. You almost have to be a fellow anthrax fanatic to follow this account of the events, but perhaps this is precisely the audience he…
