New season of Cover Up explores FBI investigation into bioterrorism attack

Sony Music and Campside Media have launched The Anthrax Threat, a new season of Cover Up.

The podcast explores the FBI investigation of the first lethal act of bioterrorism in October 2001 when letters laced with the deadly powder anthrax began appearing in U.S. mail.

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI reassigned thousands of agents to the counterterrorism unit to prevent another domestic tragedy. Yet just weeks later deadly mail was distributed to prominent journalists, government officials and postal workers, resulting in five recipients ending up dead.

Hosted by journalist Josh Dean, the series follows the path of a seven-year journey led by the FBI to find out who was responsible for the poisonings, as what started as an unprecedented case turned into an unsettling mystery. 

Through new interviews and archive footage, The Anthrax Threat asks who sent these letters and why. It unveils first-hand recordings of encounters between FBI agents, government staffers, scientists and many more who were involved with the case every step of the way.  

“This case was a national fixation at the time, but it pretty quickly drifted from memory — and so many questions have gone unanswered over the last twenty years,” said Josh Dean. “The Anthrax Threat — a real team effort of reporters and producers — takes listeners inside the sprawling, extremely flawed seven-year investigation into these shocking and heinous crimes.”

Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat on The Binge today to listen to all episodes, all at once and is also available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher.