Jean C. Duley, Ivins’ counselor said her client had “a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, actions, plans, threats & actions towards therapist.” His psychiatrist called him “homicidal, sociophatic with clear intentions.”  

Duley said she was frightened by Ivins’ threats. He even left her a telephone message telling that her actions had made it possible “for the FBI to now be able to prosecute him for the murders.” She asked the FBI for protection but the agents said they were too busy “watching” him, so they couldn’t watch her.

The therapist filed a petition for a protective order on July 24. She obtained the order that prohibited Ivins to contact her and required him to stay away from Duley’s workplace. “He is a revenge killer. When he feels he has been slighted, and especially towards women, he plots and actually tries to carry out revenge killings,” Duley testified at the hearing. “He was going to go out in a blaze of glory that he was going to take everybody out with him.”

She said Ivins left her two messages on her work telephone “ranting, blaming me for having done this to him.” He “thanked” her for ruining his life and “letting the FBI now be able to prosecute him for murders.”

Even if after the protective order was signed, the terror continued. Duley said she stayed burrowed in her home and slept on the couch, frightened of what might happen if Ivins was released from the hospital. The scientist was placed in a psychiatric hospital after Duley called the Frederick Police Department to report Ivins’ threats.

The therapist further cited another psychiatrist who called Ivins “homicidal, sociopathic, with clear intentions.” She was 100% sure than Ivins was serious about his threats.

Two nights later, Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after taking a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine just as he was about to be charged with by the Justice Department with conducting the deadly anthrax attacks that killed five people.