Bruce Ivins anthrax case similar to a Law & Order episode?

We were talking about the Bruce Ivins tragedy on the way back from lunch and something about it finally clicked in my brain.

Let me take a step back, I’m a big fan of Law & Order Criminal Intent. I remembered an episode that is eerily similar to this case, the one entitled, A Person of Interest.

In a continuation of a previous episode, the season finale finds Detectives Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) probing the murder of a former Air Force nurse — but the discovery of anthrax nearby intensifies the search and pushes Goren into the headlines when he is blamed for a suspicious scientist’s suicide.

I’m really surprised people haven’t seen that connection. I found only one reference to it in the comments of this post at HuffPo.

Interesting times we live in…