New York Daily News – by Jennifer Fermino , Rocco Parascandola AND Corky Siemaszko
The Texas man being grilled in connection with the ricin-laced letters mailed to President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg is married to an actress who played a zombie in “The Walking Dead.”
Nathan Richardson, 33, was unmasked Friday by a local paper as the man in FBI custody — and the husband of flame-haired beauty Shannon Rogers Guess.
Guess, who reportedly is pregnant with their sixth child, called the cops after finding a suspicious substance in her refrigerator, according to the Texarkana Gazette.
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FBI search home in New Boston, Texas, during an investigation into threatening letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which contained the deadly toxin ricin.
Richardson, an Army veteran who works at the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, has been described as a person of interest by the FBI but has not been charged with a crime.
But G-men — including a hazardous waste response team — have been searching the sprawling spread the Richardson’s share with their five sons since Thursday.
NATHAN D. RICHARDSON VIA FACEBOO
Nathan Richardson is in FBI custody after his wife Shannon found a suspicious substance in their refrigerator.
“They’ve only lived there about a year,” said neighbor Johnie Ruth Fields. “I don’t really know them, but this is pretty disturbing.”
Guess, 35, a Dallas beauty queen who also has had bit parts on “Vampire Diaries,” was escorted by several G-men to the federal courthouse in Texarkana on Friday. The feds did not say why, but she is believed to be cooperating with investigators.
SHANNON ROGERS GUESS VIA FACEBOO
Raven-haired beauty Shannon Rogers Guess called cops after finding something suspicious of her husband’s in the refrigerator.
Her husband describes himself on his Facebook page as a “nerd, dork, cracker. May 1980 to present.” He also professed himself to be a fan of Texarkana Ink!, a local tattoo parlor.
“We tat a lot of people here but I don’t remember him,” said owner John Mowrer.
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This envelope contained the ricin-tainted letter mailed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Guess, however, has a tribal design on her lower back and butterflies on her stomach, according to her IMDB profile.
In New York, a defiant Mayor Bloomberg said he’s got more to fear from Mother Nature than any gun nut firing off ricin-laced letters.
“I have more danger from lighting than anything else,” Bloomberg said. “And I’ll go about my business, and we’re certainly going to keep working on getting guns off the streets, out of the hands of criminals and people with mental problems.”
SHANNON ROGERS GUESS VIA FACEBOO
Shannon Richardson played a zombie in “The Walking Dead.”
The letters sent to Obama, Bloomberg, and hizzoner’s Washington-based anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns were postmarked May 20 in Shreveport, La., which also handles mail from parts of Texas and Arkansas.
They did not have return addresses, but all contained the same sinister message:
JOHN MINCHILLO/AP
Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Real Estate Board of New York on Thursday despite ricen-laced threats.
“You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns,” the letter said, according to sources. “Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional, God-given right and I will exercise that right til the day I die. What’s in the letter is nothing compared to what we got planned for you.”
The presence of ricin was confirmed in the letters containing an oily pinkish-orange substance that was sent to Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group.
KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS
President Barack Obama got a threatening letter Thursday.
The feds still haven’t said whether Obama’s letter was also laced with the poison.
Meanwhile, the FBI has arrested another alleged ricin-letter sender — a Spokane, Wash. man named Matthew Ryan Buquet — for targeting Obama, the CIA, a local judge, a nearby Air Force Base, and his local post office.
ANDREW SAVULICH/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A letter scare at the Federal Bldg., 290 Broadway, in Manhattan brought out the Hazmat team Thursday.
Buquet, 38, a convicted sex offender who did time for molesting a 10-year-old girl, was arrested May 22 and pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a mailing a threatening communication charge.
Investigators said Buquet’s case and the Richardson case are not connected.
A picture of a bearded Buquet appears on his Facebook page above the words, “Just chillin’ like a villain.”
Below that, a commentator wrote on the same day Buquet was arrested, “Apparently the FBI thinks you’re a villain too, buddy.”
Original article by The New Your Daily News? This is what “professional” journalism has become?
Has reporting really gotten so lazy that the bulk of an article is based on the contents of a person’s Facebook page? And it took three reporters to write it?
The lead paragraph lets us know that the wife of the man in questin played a zombie on Walking Dead. Clearly relevent to this case since we know all Walking Dead fans are raging psychopaths waiting for the zombie apocolypse to start so they can strap on their massive gun collections and start shooting at anything that moves. Clearly a rational reason for gun control.
Then we are told she is a “flame haired beauty”. I guess this is to innediately give her extra credibility for calling the police after finding something strange in her fridge. I’m glad my wife doesn’t do that. I’d be serving 20 to life for all the times I’ve let some some old chinese food turn funky.
We also learn that she is reportedly pregnant as reported by a different newspaper. This icon of news reporting can’t even nail down if she is pregnant, but wan’t us to believe them on the source of th ricin. Of course they never actually say the husband is the definative source, but just imply he is by association and character assanation.
An army veteran who works at the army depot at Texarcana. And we know all army veterans are trigger happy crackpots suffereing from PTSD. Has to be this guy.
So then we get back to teh character descriptions. She is a “Dallas beauty queen”, and he is a fan of a tattoo parlor. Tattoo parlor? Well, the reporters MUST get an interview there. But the ink guy dowsn’t remember him. That’s definitely gotta be suspicious. Make sure that gets into the article.
Now that the characters of the actors have been covered, lets get a quote from that rock of a man, Bloomberg. Oooh, it’s a heroic one showing he isn’t afraid. Then we leaarn he makes a speach despite the impending threats and scary powers sent to him. What a guy!
OK, that’s it. I can’t even read this article a second time to finish this.
And print media wonders why it’s dying and has lost credibility.
Is she flame haired, or raven haired. According to the article, she’s both.