WTF is Up With Ricin?

Shannon Richardson

You remember last month’s Ricin drama with the Elvis impersonator arrestee who improbably claimed he’d been set up by a rival local performer and then that turned out to be true. Well, now we have this new case of letters to Bloomberg and Obama with much more threatening text in the letters about guns. As we reported on Friday, federal authorities have now zeroed in on a guy named Nathan Richardson down in Texas who authorities first got tipped to by his wife who says she saw “strange material” in the couple’s fridge and ricin-related searches on their home computer.

Well, now Richardson is claiming that he’s being framed by his wife. Here’s the latest.