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Letter claiming responsibility for a bombing, you know, that lended some credence to the fact that the author of that letter was the real thing. >> reporter: weird. all too weird. detective psalm and the others went home for the weekend to digest what they had just read and seen. and then monday morning, psalm's phone rang. 7:00 a.m. >> he says, hey, get in here. we got nor one another one of t letters. i came to work. there is a second letter sitting on my desk. this one was slightly smaller manila envelope or half-size ma think nila envelope and way too much postage again. >> what was that i...

>> reporter: shawn said he then dropped brooke off at her car in the parking lot where she'd left it. >> did he say he didn't know where she went after that? >> he was at home. he said he didn't know where she went. >> reporter: so had brooke met her killer there in the parking lot or some time later? perhaps she left to meet up with that other guy she'd been texting, daniel hawkins. but as far as investigators knew, shawn smoot was the last person to have seen brooke alive. and as investigators checked out his story, something wasn't adding up. >> so is this one of the first now where this gu...

Packages, came across that package and immediately called it in. again, as you say, it fit the similar description of packages we saw earlier this week. same type of manila envelope, same type of stamps on the envelopes again. at this postal facility on 52nd street and eighth avenue, six blocks south of where you are, jim and poppy, again, postal workers were immediately evacuated. john miller says they followed the same protocol they followed earlier this week. you had a number of investigators. you had state police, nypd, fbi, all descending upon the scene. bomb sniffing dogs here as well, w...

Also, cctv footage at surrounding businesses, as well. just to not draw to find a line under it, we have known for a reporting in the last 72 hours that they really has been a wealth of forensic evidence that was available to the fbi, and that has certainly facilitated this investigation. we were told this morning that, had advanced to the point where the fbi was reaching out to retailers to determine the point of purchase for elements s packages. things like the manila envelope. also, the pipes. also, the explosive powder that was inside. finally, what i would say is that there has been repor...

Former attorney general eric holder, that these were sent in what appears to be a padded manila envelope. the return address in maine is debra schultz. and there's no indication here the congresswoman sent out the packages herself. but the packages contained that return address. and the components of these devices, you're looking at it now, it appears to be a pipe. we're told 6 to 10 inches in length, there's explosive powder found inside. there appears to be some additional devices. obviously you can see wires in what we're looking at on-screen. we're told the components of the devi devices t...