* Greenbrook Elementary School Records Review: Investigators took an interest in the Greenbrook Elementary School, located approximately 11 miles north of the contaminated mail collection box in Princeton, New Jersey, from which the anthrax letters entered the mail stream. The school’s name is similar to the fictitious “Greendale Elementary School,” used in the return address on the Washington, D.C. anthrax envelopes.[1] The investigation reviewed student records dating back several decades and cross-referenced those records to Amerithrax investigation databases.
* Analysis of Internet Queries of Targeted Victims’ Websites: Task Force agents collected the web logs for all Internet traffic accessing the contact or mailing address pages of nbc.com, nypost.com, pagesix.com, congress.org, senate.gov, msnbc.com, cbsnews.com, and websites maintained by AMI, focusing on the 90-day time period prior to October 15, 2001. The collected logs were consolidated into a database of 10.4 million records, from which 234,827 distinct IP addresses were identified. The database was searched for IP addresses that viewed the contact pages at all of the relevant websites prior to the postmark date on the envelopes. While the database search did eventually yield two statically-assigned IP addresses which met the predetermined criteria, both were found to be web crawlers. Web crawlers are set to touch every page on the web to capture material for search engines and archiving services.
* Investigation of Suspicious Deaths Following Anthrax Mailings: Working on the theory that the person who deposited the anthrax letters in the mailbox in Princeton may have become infected and died in a manner that escaped the attention of authorities, investigators conducted a review of suspicious deaths and deaths from unknown causes that occurred in Mercer County, New Jersey, during the period of October 2001 through February 2002. Mercer County reported that there were 77 deaths of individuals who did not have prior known life threatening illnesses, and the names and identifiers of these individuals were checked against a series of databases, including the Amerithrax Major Case Database and the FBI’s Automated Case Support System. Of the 77 deaths, none was found to have a significant nexus to any facet of the investigation.
- ↑ The school is located in Kendall Park, New Jersey, a town bordered by both Franklin Park and Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. The anthrax letters mailed to Senators Leahy and Daschle contained the return address of 4th Grade, Greendale School, Franklin Park, New Jersey 08852. The zip code 08852 is assigned not to Franklin Park, but rather to the adjacent town of Monmouth Junction, while the correct zip code for Franklin Park is 08823. Three towns in that area are adjacent to each other – Franklin Park, Monmouth Junction, and Kendall Park – and at one time or another certain addresses within these towns were reassigned to another of the three towns. Investigators pursued numerous leads and theories involving these circumstances. The Greenbrook School records review is an example of one of them.
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