it is a way to connect dr. ivinsto that crime, to the location where the letters were mailed. >> narrator: at fbi headquarters, they had something they believed was even stronger- - they thought they had caught ivins intentionally misleading them about the alleged murder weapon, rmr-1029. >> it just showed us his willingness and deliberate attempt to mislead us, and actually tell us mistruths. >> narrator: the fbi had found matches between the anthrax in the letters and one particular source. >> samples start coming back positive. and all of those samples that turn out positive have all been drawn up originally from bruce ivins' 1029 flask. >> narrator: but the sample bruce ivins gave them from rmr- 1029 did not match. to investigators, it was proof ivins was trying to mislead them. >> this is the only one we know of that wasn't right, that didn't come back to what it was supposed to be. >> and so, they instantly began to wonder if this wasn't an attempt to obscure the fact that rmr-1029 was the source of the anthrax