Freed's article, "The Wrong Man," told the story of the FBI's efforts to track down individuals responsible for mailing anthrax powder to targets throughout the United States.
Hatfill was targeted due to his work with the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, his use of an antibiotic called Cipro useful in fending off anthrax and faulty investigating done by consultant Donald Wayne Foster.
[7] Since 2011, when he wrote about fractional luxury jet ownership, Freed has been a regular contributor of feature-length stories for the magazine of the National Air and Space Museum, covering a broad range of topics.
In December 2014, after a trip to Hanoi, Freed produced a story exploring what the Vietnam War was like for North Vietnamese soldiers who shot down American warplanes using Russian-built SA-2 rockets.
[12][13] Freed, under the pseudonym Fred Grimes, wrote a humor book titled Dear Ernest and Julio: The Ordinary Guy's Search for the Extraordinary Job.
[14] Freed has also written mystery-thriller novels centered on a protagonist named Cordell Logan: Flat Spin (2012), Fangs Out (2013), Voodoo Ridge (2014), The Three-Nine Line (2015), Hot Start (2016) and The Kill Circle (2017).
[16][17] In addition, Freed has written screenplays in Hollywood, including "The Devil Came on Horseback" and "A Glimpse of Hell" starring James Caan and Robert Sean Leonard which, at the time, was the highest rated program in the history of FX Networks.