AP News, March 9th, 2007
Two dud pipe bombs mailed to companies in Chicago and Kansas City included threatening letters with phrases such as "Bang you're dead" and "Tic-toc," postal inspectors said Friday.
The Postal Inspection Service also said investigators believe the suspect, who has identified himself as "The Bishop" in letters sent to financial institutions over the past 18 months, has ties to the Chicago area.
About half of the 15 threatening letters known to have been sent to Chicago-area postmarks, and the two pipe bombs, were mailed from the post office in suburban Rolling Meadows, said David Colen of the inspection service's Chicago office.
Other details outlined to reporters Friday had already been released, including references to heaven and hell and threats made to recipients if their stock did not move by $6.66. The number '666' is associated with Satan.
Colen said authorities were discussing the information again in hopes of shaking loose information in the case.
He said there have been no known threats since the two pipe bombs were mailed Jan. 26.
Colen declined to discuss specifics of the bombs but said each contained all the components of a workable device, although with some unconnected wires.
Postal inspectors said one bomb went to American Century Investments' midtown Kansas City, Mo., mail facility, a few blocks from its national headquarters. The other was sent to Janus Small-Cap in Denver and was forwarded to a company in a Chicago high-rise with ties to the Denver company, Colen said.
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