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[William Faulkner]: To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Drama I, Netflix 2024
Had a few run-ins with the law in the last couple of years. ibid. hooded man
Ricin has been found on letters mailed to the president. ibid. TV news
Authorities traced those letters to Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi. ibid.
He is said to be an Elvis impersonator obsessed with conspiracies. ibid.
I was cleaning in the morgue and guess what I found? A head. ibid. Kevin to wife
If he found them dead body parts, Kevin gonna get to the bottom of it. You know? ibid. barber
We’ve never dealt with anything like this … He would get on this rant about this conspiracy at the hospital where there were body parts. ibid. rozzer
I would go on the dark web and research body part harvesting. ibid. Kevin
His brain would make weird connections. ibid. wife
They say four men havested bones and tendons and heart valves from more than 1,000 bodies. ibid. Fox News
Michael Mastromarino, the mastermind behind this horror. ibid. Kevin
I told you so. I told you all so. ibid. Kevin
Our Mississippi state representative, Steve Holland, owned three of the largest funeral homes in the state of Mississippi. ibid.
It went to the White House. It went to the top. ibid. Steve Holland
[Steve Holland]: Kevin started these conspiracy theories that the medical center and myself have been selling body parts. And I almost choke on my own laughter at such silliness. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Drama II
This place is fucking cursed. Poverty – it’s everywhere in Mississippi. ibid. Kennedy
And it’s like he’s stepped into a portal to hell filled with secret conspiracies. ibid. family
Right after my children were threatened, weird things started happening in the night. Strangers that I had never noticed before are following me now. ibid. Kevin
My neighbour called and said you’re house is burning down. ibid.
Jack took my band, took my wife, stole all of my gigs, and everyone loved him. ibid.
I was about to step into this monstrous soap opera. ibid. new lady friend
When it comes to the police, he was stalked. He was harrassed. ibid. daughter
Our analysts scrubbed his social media. And there he was. ibid. investigator of ricin attacks
SWAT kicked my door down. At lost last this was my destiny. ibid. Kevin
Ice? I don’t even like rice. ibid. Kevin to rozzers
I said, There is no way he pulled this off. ibid. ex-wife
The number one enemy that has made my life a living hell for the last four or five years is James Everett Dutschke, a Karate instructor. ibid. Kevin
Kevin Curtis remains in custody while the US Government charges him with threatening the life of the President. Meanwhile, two FBI agents begin an investigation into Everett Dutschke as an alternative suspect. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Drama III, captions
I don’t think I’ve talked to anybody that would fit into the category of Everett Dutschke. ibid.
We were very confident we had got it right the second time. ibid.
A strange Southern tale of Elvis impersonators, organ havesting conspiracies, and internet fights over MENSA certificates. ibid.
One fo the most bizarre cases ever. ibid. TV
A brilliant scientist is recruited by the FBI to investigate a deadly biological attack on US soil. Then suddenly the scientist becomes the number one suspect. Could previously classified information prove his innocence? Or did the truth die with Bruce Ivins? Deadly Intelligence I: Dr Bruce Ivins, Amazon 2018
Ivins works at the Army Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Dr Irvins has been perfecting vaccines to protect America against bioweapons since 1980. ibid.
22 civilians were infected. 5 die. Ivins is recruited by the FBI for his specialised knowledge of anthrax. ibid.
He is discovered unconscious on his bathroom floor. ibid.
To this day there is still doubt that Bruce Ivins really was the culprit. ibid.
The killer is dubbed the Anthrax Mailer. ibid.
The killer anthrax is the so-caalled Ames strain, which originates in the United States. ibid.
Now all eyes turn to the scientists with access to the deadly bacteria. ibid.
Dr Hatfill is publicly announced as a person of interest. ibid.
‘We had a fingerprint, a DNA fingerprint, of the actual anthrax that was used in the attacks.’ ibid. Comment
The DNA leads not just to a single lab but a single flask. ibid.
‘Dr Ivins has been custodian of this flask since the late 1990s.’ ibid. comment
‘There were approximately 20 laboratories that received some material from that flask.’ ibid. Comment
The FBI claims it was professional self-preservation to stop proposed cuts to his research. ibid.
Dr Bruce Ivins has a dark side. Unbeknownst to the public, in 2008 Dr Bruce Ivins becomes the FBI’s main suspect in the anthrax mailings seven years earlier. But many of those who work with Ivins think the FBI are focusing on the wrong man. ibid.
On July 12th 2008 federal agents raid Ivins’ home. What they find is alarming. ibid.
Ivins begins drinking heavily. In July 2008 he’s committed to a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. ibid.
Ivins takes excessive amounts of acetaminophen, a pain reliever that in extremely high doses can cause organ failure. ibid.
A bioweapons scientist found mortally wounded on a Manhattan sidewalk. His death remains steeped in mystery. Behind him, a covert career with deadly secrets. The knowledge he holds is explosive. Did the grim nature of his research push him over the edge, or did he die because he knew too mch? Deadly Intelligence II: Dr Frank Olson
Biochemist Dr Frank Oslon has falled ten floors from his room in the Hotel Stadler. ibid.
To stop him blowing the whistle on a top-secret US bioweapons program. ibid.
America’s germ-warfare program had been kick-started with Nazi research. ibid.
Testing is also carried out in urban areas. ibid.
‘He thought that the experimentations being done with prisoners was unethical.’ ibid. comment
‘It would require a degree of athletic ability that he simply didn’t possess’ ibid.
‘The two police officers found Lashbrook’s behaviour highly suspicious.’ ibid.
Only a superficial autopsy is performed. ibid.
Olson’s death is reported as a suicide. But two decades later, a government inquiry into CIA activities leads to the release of previously secret documents. They link the CIA and Olson to a covert program of experiments in which patients were dosed with the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD. ibid.
So they begin testing it on their own troops. ibid.
The explosive allegation: Point Saint-Esprit was a secret LSD experiment undertaken by the US. ibid.
Frank Olson’s passport shows he made multiple trips to France in the early 1950s. ibid.
‘Frank Olson had no scratches on his face he would have had had he crashed through a window.’ ibid. comment
‘Frank Olson sustained a subgaleal hematoma right here above the left eye.’ ibid. expert
Members of the 1994 forensic team believe Olson’s haematoma pointed to possible foul play. ibid.
‘Frank Olson was dosed with LSD.’ ibid. comment
In 1953 Frank Olson is deeply conflicted about secret scientific experiments he’s been conducting for the Army and CIA, codenamed Project Artichoke. Ibid.