Oct 21 2001 – In Wynnewood Manor they know her as Terry, the mother in her mid-30s who collected their mail every weekday for three years. Today, Terry is being treated for exposure to anthrax, and black-jacketed FBI agents are swarming over the route she took. The net is closing on the anthrax terrorists and Terry might just be their critical mistake.
Terry did not pick up from public post boxes; she dealt only with residential addresses in Wynnewood Manor, a suburb of Ewing, New Jersey, a working-class town west of Trenton, the nearby city. Somebody left Terry a letter to post.
If she checked the address, she may have been surprised to see it was for Tom Brokaw, the veteran NBC anchorman. What the suburban terrorist did not realize was that while the envelope to Mr Brokaw was stamped “Trenton, NJ”, it also had a Postal Service bar code, which narrowed it down to Terry’s sorting office. When she was found to be suffering from anthrax, the search narrowed: she was on duty the day the bar code was franked on Mr Brokaw’s envelope; probably, she collected it.
Teams of FBI officers questioned residents along the postal worker’s tree-lined postal route. Samantha Pae, 34, her fianc