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Food For Thought--Several Dozen Microbiologists & Scientists Dead Under "Suspicious Circumstances" Since 2001

>From PRISON PLANET.com

Updated list of scientists dead in suspicious circumstances since autumn
2001

Truth Seeker | January 27 2005

Korean Jeong H. Im a protein chemist from the University of Missouri is just
the latest in a long line of scientists that have died in suspicious
circumstances. Full chronological list below.

November 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris Wall's body was found sprawled next to a
three-story parking structure near his office. Mr. Wall, 41, had studied at
the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a biomedical expert who
held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual
property. It had been alleged that Jeffrey Wall had a connection to Biofem.

November 16, 2001: Dr. Don Wiley, 57, disappears during a business trip to
Memphis, Tennessee. He had just bought tickets to take his son to Graceland
the following day. Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis.
His body was later found in the Mississippi River. Wiley was one of the
world's leading researchers of deadly viruses, including HIV and the Ebola
virus. He was an expert on the immune system's response to viral attacks.

November 21, 2001: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian
defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, dies of a stroke. Pasechnik, who
defected to Britain in 1989, succeeded in producing an aerosolized plague
microbe that could survive outside the laboratory. He was connected to
Britain's spy agency and recently had started his own company. "In the last
few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal of
the [British] Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism.

November 24, 2001: Three more dead microbiologists: A Swissair flight from
Berlin to Zurich crashes during its landing approach; 22 are killed and nine
survive. Among those killed are Dr. Yaakov Matzner, 54, dean of the Hebrew
University school of medicine; Amiramp Eldor, 59, head of the haematology
department at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and a world-recognized expert in
blood clotting; and Avishai Berkman, 50, director of the Tel Aviv public
health department and businessman.

December 10, 2001: Dead microbiologist: "Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, was
stabbed and slashed with what police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in
Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high
priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged." [Globe and
Mail, 5/4/02] All were part of what they called a coven, and interested in
magic, fantasy and self-mutilation. The police have no motive as to why they
would have wanted to kill Schwartz, who was a single parent and said to be
very close to his children. Schwartz worked at Virginia's Center for
Innovative Technology on DNA sequencing and pathogenic microorganisms.

December 14, 2001: Dead microbiologist: Nguyen Van Set, 44, dies in an
airlock filled with nitrogen in his lab in Geelong, Australia. The lab had
just been written up in the journal Nature for its work in genetic
manipulation and DNA sequencing. Scientists there had created a virulent
form of mousepox. "They realized that if similar genetic manipulation was
carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed,"

January 2002: Two dead microbiologists: Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski.
Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and Brushlinski was killed in
Moscow. Both were well known around the world and members of the Russian
Academy of Science.

February 9, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Victor Korshunov, 56, is bashed over
the head and killed at the entrance of his home in Moscow, Russia. He was
the head of the microbiology sub-faculty at the Russian State Medical
University and an expert in intestinal bacteria.

February 11, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Dr. Ian Langford, 40, is found
dead, partially naked and wedged under a chair in his home in Norwich,
England. When found, his house was described as "blood-spattered and
apparently ransacked." He was one of Europe's leading experts on
environmental risk.

February 28, 2002: Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco: While taking
delivery of a pizza, Tanya Holzmayer, 46, is shot and killed by a colleague,
Guyang Huang, 38, who then apparently shot himself. Holzmayer moved to the
US from Russia in 1989. Her research focused on the part of the human
molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine. Holzmayer was
focusing on helping create new drugs that interfere with replication of the
virus that causes AIDS. One year earlier, Holzmayer obeyed senior management
orders to fire Huang.

March 24, 2002: Dead microbiologist: David Wynn-Williams, 55, is hit by a
car while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an
astrobiologist with the Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames
Research Center. He was studying the capability of microbes to adapt to
environmental extremes, including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and
global warming.

March 25, 2002: Dead microbiologist: Steven Mostow, 63, dies when the
airplane he was piloting crashes near Denver, Colorado. He worked at the
Colorado Health Sciences Centre and was known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise
in treating influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of the
country's leading infectious disease experts.

November 12 2002: Dr. Benito Que, 52, was "an expert in infectious diseases
and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School. Police originally
suspected that he had been beaten on in a carjacking in the medical school's
parking lot. Strangely enough, though, his body showed no signs of a
beating.

June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman, a UC San Diego expert on infectious
diseases and, since Sept. 11, 2001 a consultant on bioterrorism. He was 47.
Rickman died while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country
bordered on all sides by South Africa. He had complained of a headache, but
the cause of death was not immediately known. The physician had been working
in Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews, director of the UC San Diego Medical
Center's Owen Clinic, teaching African medical personnel about the
prevention and treatment of AIDS.Rickman, the incoming president of the
Infectious Disease Assn. of California, was a multidisciplinary professor
and practitioner with expertise in infectious diseases, internal medicine,
epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic utilization.

July 18, 2003: David Kelly, a British biological weapons expert, was said
to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home. Kelly was the
Ministry of Defence's chief scientific officer and senior adviser to the
proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the Foreign Office's
non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological weapons to
the UN biological weapons inspections teams(Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he
was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only in
this country, but in the world.

November 20, 2003: Scientist Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45 was killed by a hit
and run driver that jumped the kerb and ploughed into him in the 1600 block
of South Braeswood, Texas. He was studying the virus plaguing cruise ships.
April 2004: Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly, a distinguished Iraqi chemistry
professor dies in American custody from a sudden hit to the back of his head
caused by blunt trauma. It was uncertain exactly how he died, but someone
had hit him from behind, possibly with a bar or a pistol. His battered
corpse turned up at Baghdad's morgue and the cause of death was initially
recorded as "brainstem compression". It was discovered that US doctors had
made a 20cm incision in his skull.

May 5, 2004: A Russian scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons
laboratory in Siberia died after an accident with a needle laced with ebola.
Scientists and officials said the accident had raised concerns about safety
and secrecy at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology,
known as Vector, which in Soviet times specialized in turning deadly viruses
into biological weapons. Vector has been a leading recipient of aid in an
American programme.

May 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, a Norwich Free Academy graduate, 56,
died after being beaten to death during an alleged robbery. Mallove was well
respected for his knowledge of cold fusion. He had just published an ³open
letter² outlining the results of and reasons for his last 15 years in the
field of ³new energy research.² Dr. Mallove was convinced it was only a
matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy device.

June 22, 2004: Astronomer and physicist, Austrian born Thomas Gold famous
over the years for a variety of bold theories that flout conventional wisdom
died of heart failure. Gold¹s theory of the deep hot biosphere holds
important ramifications for the possibility of life on other planets,
including seemingly inhospitable planets within our own solar system. He was
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell University and wass the founder
(and for 20 years director) of Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space
Research. He was also involved in air accident investigation.

July 3, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, 52, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, was killed when
the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon. He was
married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the chief
scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence¹s
laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by
officials from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of
the aircraft was removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough.

July 21, 2004: Dr Bassem al-Mudares' mutilated body was found in the city
of Samarra, Iraq. He was a phD chemist and had been tortured before being
killed.

July 29, 2004: 67-year-old John Mullen, a nuclear research scientist with
McDonnell Douglas dies from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic. Police
investigating will not say how Mullen was exposed to the arsenic or where it
came from. At the time of his death he was doing contract work for Boeing.

August 12, 2004: Professor John Clark, head of the science lab which
created Dolly the sheep, was found hanging in his holiday home. Prof Clark
led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world¹s leading animal
biotechnology research centres. He played a crucial role in creating the
transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame. Prof Clark also
founded three spin-out firms from Roslin - PPL Therapeutics, Rosgen and
Roslin BioMed.

September 5, 2004: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani Iraqi nuclear
scientist* was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. He was a practising
nuclear physicist since 1984.

December 21, 2004: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot
dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his way to work at Diyala
University when armed men opened fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge
in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge
and fell into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local
university, was removed from the submerged car and rushed to Baqouba
hospital where he was pronounced dead.

January 7, 2005: Korean Jeong H. Im, retired research assistant professor
at the University of Missouri - Columbia and primarily a protein chemist,
died of multiple stab wounds to the chest before firefighters found in his
body in the trunk of a burning car on the third level of the Maryland Avenue
Garage. MUPD with the assistance of the Columbia Police Department and
Columbia Fire Department are conducting a death investigation of the
incident. A person of interest described as a male 6¹ ­ 6¹2² wearing some
type of mask possible a painters mask or drywall type mask was seen in the
area of the Maryland Avenue Garage.


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