Ricin Arrest: Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson Admits Sending Poison-Tainted Mail to Obama: Officials
Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson was arrested Friday in connection with the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NBC reports.
Guess Richardson lives in New Boston, Texas, and was arrested in Arkansas on charges that will be filed Friday afternoon, authorities told NBC.
According to an FBI affidavit obtained by the Associated Press, Richardson contacted authorities on May 30 to implicate her husband. She later failed a polygraph test and investigators also found inconsistencies in her story, the document said. Richardson then admitted mailing the letters knowing they contained ricin, but said her husband had typed them and made her print and send them.
NBC reports:
Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, originally called the Federal Bureau of Investigation claiming that her husband had sent the letters, officials said. The investigators found that she had sent the letters herself, they said.
According to E! Online, Guess Richardson is an actress who has had small parts in both “The Walking Dead” and “Vampire Diaries,” and her husband is an army veteran. Guess Richardson denied that she had sent the letters in a statement to E! News:
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