The late Wichita abortion provider George Tiller faced numerous death threats, according to FBI documents released earlier this week to The Associated Press. Of note: Tiller received a letter in 1999 claiming that a militant anti-abortion group had paid a woman $25,000 to kill him.
The feds investigated "numerous death threats" sent to the doctor, who was assassinated during a church service in May 2009 by Scott Roeder. The threats detailed in the 287 pages of "heavily redacted" documents -- including the $25,000 hit -- were not found to be credible.
The documents don't cover Tiller's killing and "mostly cover cases in which the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to
prosecute or cases in which federal investigators could not identify
suspects." Almost all of the cases were more than a decade old.
Reporter Roxana Hegeman found that the FBI investigated the following incidents:
prison that he planned to kill Tiller. The activist's name was redacted.
However, Rachel "Shelley" Shannon, who shot Tiller in both arms in 1993, was locked up in the prison that year. That investigation was labeled "hearsay" and closed.
kill Tiller. The veteran later told investigators that he made the threat so
he could get treatment. He was deemed "mentally unstable at the time."
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