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Virus
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report by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible emergence
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List of Murdered Scientists
#1 Dr. David Schwartz.. murdered at home..
#2 Dr Benito Que... dead in the street...
#3 Dr.Set Van Nguyen..dead in airlock refrigerator.
#4 DR.Don Wiley.. vanished.. car abandoned...
#5 Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik Dead near his home. ..... Feb. 2002...
#6 Dr. Ian Langford .Russian.. beaten to death in his home...
#7 DR. V Korshunov... Russian..head bashed in...
#8 Dr A Bushlinski Russian.. murdered..
#9 Dr. I Glebov.. Russian.. Bandit attack....
Also reported that in plane from Isreal to
What did these scientists know that was so important that they had to be
silenced..????.
(OR, what CURE could they have come up with to what's about to be DELIBERATELY
RELEASED??)
Missing / Dead Scientists
Another Leading Scientist Found Dead
(The Times, UK)
Dr Ian Langford, Senior Research Associate in CSERGE, in the UK
British News
February 13, 2002
Mystery death of scientist
By Michael Horsnell
DETECTIVES were last night trying to unravel the circumstances in which a
leading university research scientist was found dead at his blood-spattered and
apparently ransacked home.
The body of Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the
A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Dr Langford, who lived alone
in the house in
Dr Langford began working at the university in 1993 after gaining his PhD in
childhood leukaemia and infection following a first-class honours degree in
environmental sciences. He worked most recently as a senior researcher
assessing risk to the environment.
Professor Kerry Turner, director of the centre, said: “We are all very shocked
by this appalling news. Ian was without doubt one of
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-206921,00.html
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A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health
Especially Since 9-11
by Michael Davidson
© Copyright 2002, From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com, All rights
reserved. May be recopied, distributed for non-profit purposes only; May not be
posted on an Internet web site without express written authorization. Contact
[email protected] for permission.
[ -- As FTW has begun to investigate serious discussions by legitimate
scientists and academics on the possible “necessity” of reducing the
world©&Mac246;s population by more than four billion people, no stranger
set of circumstances since 9-11-01 adds credibility to this possibility than
the suspicious deaths of what may be as many as 12 world-class microbiologists.
Following on the heels of our two-part series on the coming world oil crisis,
this story by Michael Davidson, FTW’s new staff writer, and a graduate of the
Syracuse University School of Journalism, is one which takes on a unique
significance. Special thanks to Jeff Rense, www.rense.com and researcher Ian
Gurney for bringing five of these deaths to FTW©&Mac246;s and the
world©&Mac246;s attention first. – Revised
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FTW -
Whatever you think the answer may be, change that light bulb soon.
Microbiologists are dropping like flies.
In the five-week period from
In the ten weeks prior to
On
On
On
On
And on
Before these deaths, on
According to several press reports, including a 12/05/01 article by Barry
Chamish and one on 1/13/02 by Jim Rarey (both available at www.rense.com), the
plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as four or five
passengers who were microbiologists. Both
At about the time of the
Besides all being microbiologists, the five scientists who died within five
weeks of each other pose severe problems with "official" explanations
of their deaths. And four of the five were doing virtually identical research;
research that has global political and financial significance.
A MEMPHIS MYSTERY
Dr. Don C. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at
His rented Mitsubishi Galant was found about four hours later, abandoned on a
bridge across the
Early reports about Wiley's disappearance made no mention of paint marks on his
car, or a missing hubcap which turned up in subsequent reports. The type of
accident needed to knock off the hubcaps (actually a complete wheel
cover) used on recent model Galants would have caused marked damage to the
sheet metal on either side of the wheel, and probably the wheel itself. No body
or wheel damage to the car has been reported.
Wiley's car was found about a five minute drive from the hotel where he was last
seen. There is a four-hour period in his evening that cannot be accounted for.
There is also no explanation as to why he would have been headed into
The
On
Mr. Smith theorizes that Wiley pulled over to the outermost lane of the bridge
(that lane being closed at the time) to inspect the damage to his car. Smith's
subsequent explanation for the fall requires several other things to have
occurred simultaneously:
· Dr. Wiley had to have had one of the two or three seizures he has per year
due to a rare seizure disorder known only to family and close friends, that
seizure being brought on by use of alcohol earlier that evening;
· A passing truck creating a huge blast of wind, roadway bounce due to heavy
traffic; and,
· Dr. Wiley had to be standing right at the edge of the guard rail which,
because of Wiley's 6' 3" height, would have come only to his mid-thigh.
These conditions would have put Wiley©&Mac246;s center of gravity above the
rail, and the seizure would have caused him to lose balance as the truck
created the bounce and blast, causing him to fall off the bridge.
Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology
Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at
Dr. Benito Que was found comatose on a street in
Set Van Nguyen was found dead at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization's animal diseases facility in
According to Victoria Police, Nguyen died after entering a refrigerated storage
facility. "He did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had
leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system, Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen
collapsed and died" says the official report.
Nitrogen is not a "deadly" gas, and is a part of the air. An extreme
over-abundance of nitrogen in one's immediate atmosphere would gradually cause
shortness of breath, lightheadedness, and fatigue; conditions a biologist would
certainly recognize. Additionally, a nitrogen leak in a laboratory's
refrigerator system sufficient to fill the room with nitrogen would set off gas
system alarms, and would be so massive as to cause complete failure of the refrigeration
system, causing the temperature to rise, also setting off alarms that every one
of these systems is equipped with as a standard safety procedure.
A RUSSIAN, BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AND OLD CORPSES
In 1989, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to
The New York Times obituary indicated that the announcement of Pasechnik's
death was made in the
Attempts to access either of those links resulted in "Page Not
Found".
Vladimir Pasechnik spent the ten years after his defection working at the
Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at the UK Department of Health,
Early October saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume the
bodies of 10
ANTHRAX CURES AND THE RUSSIAN
Almost immediately at the outset of the anthrax scare, the Bush administration
contracted with Bayer Pharmaceuticals for millions of doses of Cipro, an
antibiotic to treat anthrax. This was done despite many in the medical
community stating that there were several cheaper, better alternatives to
Cipro, which has never been shown to be effective against inhaled anthrax. The
Center for Disease Control's (CDC) own website states a preference for the
antibiotic doxycycline over Cipro for inhalation anthrax. CDC expresses
concerns that widespread Cipro use could cause other bacteria to become immune
to antibiotics.
After three months of conflicting reports it is now official that the anthrax
that has killed several Americans since October 5 is from
The militarized anthrax used by the
In recent years Patrick has worked with Kanatjan Alibekov. Now known by the
Americanized "Ken Alibek", he defected to the
His boss was Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik.
A PATTERN?
The DNA sequencing work that the above microbiologists were doing is aimed at
developing drugs that will fight pathogens based on the pathogen's genetic
profile. The work is also aimed at eventually developing drugs that will work
in cooperation with a person's genetic makeup. Theoretically, a drug could be
developed for one specific person. That being the case, it's obvious that one
could go down the ladder, and a drug could be developed to effectively treat a
much broader class of people sharing a genetic marker. The entire process can
also be turned around to develop a pathogen that will affect a broad class of
people sharing a genetic marker. A broad class of people sharing a genetic
marker could be a group such as a race, or people with brown eyes.
ANTHRAX
About 10 weeks before 9-11, in June, 2001, senior government officials gathered
at Andrews Air Force Base for an extremely complex war game called Dark Winter.
One Dark Winter scenario had several major media outlets receiving letters
demanding the immediate removal of all
In 1998, the BioPort Corporation was founded for the express purpose of buying
the Michigan Biologic Products Institute from the State of
BioPort now has on its Board of Directors Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. In
October 1985 Crowe was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He
retired from that position in 1989 and was appointed
After four years of constant factory violations that prevented the vaccine from
being shipped, on
BioPort's anthrax vaccine is quite controversial, with a great deal of debate
about both its safety and efficacy.
SMALLPOX
An
Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in
1977, after treating the last known case in
According to Steven Black, a director of the
MEHPA A LAW FROM HELL
On
After working only 18 days, on
Under the terms of MEHPA, after declaring a "public health
emergency", without consultation with public health authorities, law
enforcement, the legislature or courts, a state governor or anyone he/she
decides to empower, can, among many other things:
· Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes a felony and
will result in quarantine.
· Require any individual to undergo specific medical treatment. Refusal
constitutes a felony and will result in quarantine.
· Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine, fuel or clothing,
an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency.
· Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous. There will be no
compensation or recourse.
· Draft you or your business into state service.
· Impose rationing, price controls, quotas and transportation controls.
· Suspend any state law, regulation or rule that is thought to interfere with
handling the declared emergency.
When the Federal government wanted the states to enact the 55 mph speed limit,
they coerced the states using the threat of withholding federal monies. It is
reasonable to assume the same tactic will be used with MEHPA. As of this
writing, the law has been passed in
So now we come to the end of the story, and it's reasonable to ask
"What©&Mac246;s the connection between dead microbiologists, vaccine
contracts and MEHPA?©&Mac247;
The research the microbiologists were doing could have developed methods of
treating diseases like anthrax and smallpox without conventional antibiotics or
vaccines. Pharmaceutical contracts to deal with these diseases will total
hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. If epidemics could be
treated in non-traditional ways, MEHPA might not be necessary. Considering the
government©&Mac246;s actions nullifying many civil liberties since last
September, MEHPA seems to be a law looking for an excuse to be enacted. Maybe
the microbiologists were in the way of some peoples' or business' agendas.
We also know that DNA sequence research can be used to develop pathogens that
target specific genetically related groups. One company, DynCorp, handles data
processing for many Federal agencies, including the CDC, the Department of
Agriculture, several branches of the Department of Justice, the FDA and the National
Institute of Health. On
One thing is certain: the small and elite community of world class
microbiologists is well aware that its numbers are shrinking and these dead
microbiologists were among the few who could have answered these important
questions.
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JEFF RENSE INTERVIEWS
PATTY DOYLE & Dr. WILEY'S SISTER
Superb Interview on the Jeff Rense show with
Patricia Doyle, PhD and Pamela McIsaac (Dr. Wiley's Sister)
(Move show position forward to 01:00:50)
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Was Dr. Robert Schwartz Murdered in an
HHMI secluded Farmhouse?
There are still so many questions regarding the "flurry" of deaths of
major scientific researchers in the span of a few weeks.
Dr. Wiley was associated with Howard Hughes Med. Inst. lab at Harvard. Dr.
Robert Schwartz founded the
It was reported that Dr. Robert Schwartz was murdered in a secluded farmhouse
outside of Leesberg,
I have been going over archive news reports and found the following that is of
interest.
Also, in 1996 Dr. Tsunao Saitoh world class scientist, CJD, Alzheimer Disease
neurological researcher was murdered along with his daughter in what LaJolla
police call a very professional hit. Dr. Saitoh had been associated with HHMI,
In 1994, Jose Trias and his wife were murdered in their
What research was going on at the HHMI farmhouse? Was there a lab there as well
as offices? Was Dr. Schwartz expertise in DNA sequencing being used in HHMI
special research? What about Dr. Wiley's expertise i.e. infectivity and
immunity of viruses, bacterias and mycoplasmas?
Patricia Doyle, PhD
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Loudon Facility a Major Shift for Hughes Medical Institute
By Rob Terry,
Washington Techway
Thursday, February 1, 2001; 3:17 PM
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's planned computational biology center in
Loudoun County has the potential to bring Northern Virginia a newfound
visibility in life sciences research, and not just because of HHMI's endowment
and worldwide reputation.It also represents a major shift in HHMI operations, a
first-of-its-kind, stand-alone, research-and-development outpost that will
bring 200 to 300 scientists, and possibly up to 500 total jobs, when
construction is complete.
At least 500,000 square feet of space is planned for the 281-acre site,
bordered by the
One HHMI executive likens the center's concept to that of Bell Labs, AT&T's
famed research and development institution (now the R&D arm of Lucent),
home of such seminal inventions as the transistor, the laser and communications
satellites. The modern history of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute began in
1984.
A new board of trustees was appointed to oversee the scientific and
philanthropic organization created by reclusive aviation-industrial magnate
Howard Hughes. The board decided to sell the organization's primary asset, the
Hughes Aircraft Co., to General Motors for $5 billion.
The sale was a strategic shift that set in motion a chain of events bringing
HHMI to its current place of prominence as the nation's largest private medical
research organization, with an endowment of $13 billion. Currently, 3,000
scientists lead 350 research groups at 72 sites through partnerships with host
institutions, focusing on six primary areas: cell biology, genetics,
immunology, neuroscience, structural biology and computational biology.
HHMI funds each investigator an average of $600,000 to $1.5 million annually,
then largely leaves them alone. Institute investigators - which in the past
included HHMI President Thomas Cech when he was at the
HHMI also distributes about $100 million a year on science education grants.
Reported by Washington Techway,
http://www.washtech.com/washtechway
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Hughes Medical Institute Boosts Virginia's Biotech Vision
By Rob Terry,
Washington Techway Staff Writer
On Jan. 25, about 20 members of
The official announcement made one week later could set those wheels in motion:
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the largest private biomedical research
organization in the
"
The 10-year project in many ways underscores the unique nature of Chevy Chase,
Md.-based HHMI, and the enormous advantages and resources available to it. With
such a huge endowment - $13 billion - and such a stable of scientific talent,
clustering, economic incentives and the like are the least of HHMI's concerns.
And
"We think it could have substantial impact," said HHMI President
Thomas Cech, a 1989 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry who took the reins at the
institute last January. "As soon as people know the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute is located there, and especially [with] this kind of activity. I
mean, we're going to be bringing a lot of the most exciting scientists in the
country, who will be passing through there every year. We're going to have all
of our scientific meetings out there at the farm [Janelia Farm is the name of
the site] instead of having them here at headquarters. There will be I think a
lot of opportunity for collaboration."
While small biotech clusters have formed in
Biotech companies were expected to cluster around American Type Culture
Collection at Innovation@Prince William, a tech park outside
The perception of
"[The HHMI project] is perfect for us because nobody wants to do the
10-year, $500 million investment in biopharmaceuticals. Particularly around
here, where you're used to Internet time," he said.
Travis Sample, a professor of business administration at Shenandoah University
who, along with colleague Jim Wong has a business plan on how to position the
region as a bioinformatics hub, said the HHMI center's impact "is going to
be bigger than AOL," largely because of the region's Web and IT dominance.
"It wouldn't have happened three years ago here, because of the
infrastructure. We're ready now," he said.
For HHMI this newest strategic shift, in the works over the past year, will put
HHMI at the forefront of cutting-edge bioinformatics discovery.
Cech and his management team had to figure out how the institute could get the
greatest impact out of the healthy annual return the endowment was providing:
Should they funnel an extra $50 million into funding roughly 50 more
investigators? Or would bringing on those investigators create additional
layers of administration and change the character of the institute?
"We felt we could probably do something that would take greater advantage
of the institute's flexibility," said Gerald Rubin, HHMI's vice president
for biomedical research.
Cech wants the new center to be a catalyst for new avenues of HHMI scientific
collaboration and information sharing.
"It's a completely new concept for us and we think it's completely new for
the country," Cech said. "The subject material that we're going to be
tapping is not unique. There are many other institutions that have recognized
that making more of an investment in imaging, proteomics and bioinformatics is
the way to go over the next 10 to 20 years. So we overlap a lot in those
concepts with what's being done at
"What I think is unique is this emphasis on dissemination of information
to the community. Instead of it being a competitive situation, where we're
building this to get a leg up on our competitors, the opposite of that is we're
building this to increase everyone's competitiveness, in terms of solving
problems rather than competing with each other, and trying to have as open and
sharing a mode of operation as possible."
HHMI management, with the help of commercial developer Mark Winkler Co. in
Alexandria, narrowed their search to about six sites using a basic criteria:
They wanted the center to be an hour's drive from headquarters in Chevy Chase,
on a site at least 100 acres and no more than an hour's drive to an airport.
They wanted plenty of space, "to be on a piece of land large enough where
we could control the environment," said Rubin.
That factor worked against
"I would have preferred something closer," Rubin, a
Plosila, who vividly remembers
contacts to become known as an IT and Internet hub. NIH fueled
"This could help create a cluster, clearly on the bioinformatics
side," Plosila said. Promising bioinformatics startups like LabBook in
"I don't think the significance of the Hughes thing can be
overstated," said CIT's Coughter. "It works on so many levels. The
first thing is it brings some prominence. . You can start to change the
mindset. Look at how long it's taken people to get used to the idea of going to
Frederick," he added, pointing to the rural Maryland city now home to
manufacturing centers for MedImmune and Invitrogen.
It's a prominence that Leslie Platt, head of a McLean-based Ernst & Young
health sciences group, asked everyone seated in the seventh-floor conference
room to imagine at the Jan. 25 CIT lunch.
"Look out the window here," said Platt, scanning the construction
cranes dotting the skyline and the traffic streaming up and down the
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Building the 'Bell Labs' of Biology
By Terence Chea,
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 1, 2001
Since its founding almost 50 years ago, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
one of the world's premier research organizations, has been an institute
without walls. With headquarters in
Now for the first time the institute is laying out plans to create its own
research complex, to be built on 281 acres of picturesque farmland in rural
Howard Hughes officials say the new research center will initially focus on the
emerging field of computational biology, also known as bioinformatics, which
taps the power of computers to interpret vast quantities of biological data
from projects such as the mapping of the human genome.
"We think the next decade will see a massive explosion in this area,"
said Thomas R. Cech, the institute's president. "These are brand-new
fields that have very few practitioners now, but everybody sees it as the wave
of the future."
Launched in 1953 by Howard Hughes, the founder of Hughes Aircraft Co., the
institute is one of the world's largest private medical research organizations,
with an endowment of more than $12 billion and an annual budget of $667
million. After the federal government, it spends more money on basic biomedical
research than any other organization.
The idea for the new research center was hatched not long after Cech, a Nobel laureate
and Howard Hughes scientist for 12 years, took over as the institute's
president about a year ago. Cech and other institute officials wanted to create
an environment in which scientists are free to dream up new ideas.
"Some say it sounds like the Bell Labs of biology," Cech said,
referring to the research organization that invented the transistor, the laser
and other pervasive technologies. "People are freed from the constraints
of having to write research grants. They're given generous support and are free
to invent and think up new ways of solving these problems."
When the research facilities are finished, institute officials hope to attract
a mixture of biologists, chemists, computer scientists and other specialists
who can pool their expertise to create cutting-edge technologies that answer
the future needs of biomedical research.
Initial plans call for the construction of a laboratory research facility and
housing complex, which are scheduled to be completed by 2005. The institute
will later announce plans for other facilities, which may include a science
education center, Cech said.
The institute plans to hire a permanent staff of 24 chief scientists, their
research staffs and administrative personnel, totaling about 300 employees, who
will work at the new campus. The institute will also invite up to 24 visiting
scientists, who can live and work on campus for weeks to years at a time. The
new facility will be open to both Howard Hughes researchers and outside
scientists with ideas for innovative projects.
The research center will be built in Ashburn, about four miles east of Leesburg
and eight miles from
Although the institute does not harbor its own commercial ambitions, Cech said
it has the potential to stimulate the local biotechnology industry. Across the
country, many biotech companies have been founded based on discoveries made by
Howard Hughes researchers.
"Clearly, it benefits the region," said John Holaday, chairman and
chief executive of Rockville biotechnology firm EntreMed Inc. and chairman of
the Maryland Bioscience Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that promotes
Maryland's biotech industry. "The name Howard Hughes itself evokes
excellence."
Although the center plans to first concentrate on the field of computational
biology, Cech said the center's focus could change as the demands of biomedical
research change.
"This is a very rapidly moving landscape of opportunity and we want to be
at the very forefront of it," Cech said.
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Washinton Techway / Washington Post Links:
Hughes Medical Institute Boosts Virginia's Biotech Vision
http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/7128-1.html
Loudon Facility a Major Shift for Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/7129-1.html
Building the 'Bell Labs' of Biology
http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/7126-1.html
http://www.stormtronic.co.uk/9-11/schwartz-hhmi.htm
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Missing Scientist Found Dead in Mississippi River
(Reuters) (site down 02/22/02)
The body of a Harvard scientist missing for more than a month since his rental
car was left parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River has been found
downstream, police said
Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body of Don Wiley on
Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist was last seen
on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis
Police identify body found in Mississippi River as missing scientist
December 22, 2001 Posted: 5:42 PM EST (2242 GMT)
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Police on Saturday identified a body discovered in
the Mississippi River this week as that of a Harvard University biochemist,
missing for more than a month.
The body of Don Wiley, 57, was found Thursday in the waters of a hydroelectric
plant along the river near
"Identification on the body was that of Dr. Don Wiley," he said.
The medical examiner confirmed the identity through dental records, according
to Memphis Police Lt. Walter Norris. "However, the medical examiner has
not released the cause of death," Norris said.
The renowned biochemist disappeared in the early morning hours of November 16
in
At 4 that morning, his rental car was found abandoned on the
"We began this investigation as a missing person investigation,"
Crews said. "From there it went to a more criminal bent. We've deferred it
to homicide in the event there is some criminal activity."
Wiley was considered one of the world's leading researchers of deadly viruses
-- among them AIDS and the Ebola virus.
Ebola is a highly contagious disease that kills 50 percent to 80 percent of its
victims. There is no vaccine.
Dr. William Evans from St. Jude said that hours before Wiley vanished he
appeared upbeat and happy during a banquet at the Peabody Hotel.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/22/missing.scientist/
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Professor Don C. Wiley
Harvard biochemistry professor Don C. Wiley has been declared missing after his
abandoned rental car was discovered on a highway outside of Memphis, Tenn. The
car, discovered on Interstate 40—which runs between
Scientist's disappearance confounds police
November 28, 2001 Posted: 12:35 PM EST (1735 GMT)
From Martin Savidge
CNN
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Dr. Don C. Wiley went to Memphis to attend a
scientific meeting at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and to visit
family. But in the early hours of November 16, the renowned
Now
"We began this investigation as a missing person investigation," said
Walter Crews of the Memphis Police Department. "From there it went to a
more criminal bent."
At
Wiley is seen as one of the world's leading researchers of deadly viruses,
including HIV and the Ebola virus.
The case worries
Ebola is one of the most frightening diseases known to man. It's highly
contagious, killing 50 to 80 percent of its victims, and there's no vaccine.
Some nations outside the
He was last seen at a banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown
"It's inconceivable to us who were with Don that night and the day before
that there was any possibility he would do any harm to himself," said Dr.
William Evans of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. "We've simply
dismissed that as a possibility."
Wiley left the hotel around
Police, who are scanning surveillance tapes from late-night convenience stores
and gas stations, say there are a number of interesting elements to Wiley's
disappearance, not the least of which is his background.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/28/missing.scientist/index.html
HAS PROFESSOR WILEY BEEN "DISAPPEARED"?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wiley.html
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Published on Tuesday, December 04, 2001
Memphis Police Got Late Start On Wiley Search
Slow weekend could have cost investigators key evidence
By DANIEL K. ROSENHECK and ELISABETH S. THEODORE
Crimson Staff Writers
MEMPHIS—Memphis police waited four days after Harvard professor Don C. Wiley’s
disappearance to launch a full investigation into explanations other than
suicide, possibly losing crucial evidence.
Both Wiley’s sister-in-law and a
Wiley, Harvard’s Loeb professor of biophysics and biochemistry, was last seen
after a banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown
Susan Wiley, Wiley’s sister-in-law, said Missing Persons investigators told her
the day after the disappearance that they were only actively investigating
suicide at that point.
When she urged them to explore other possibilities and dust the abandoned
rental car for fingerprints, she said she was told, “Let us do our job.”
“They certainly weren’t beating the bushes,” she said. “I don’t think they did
much. I have absolute faith in the people investigating it now.”
Missing Persons is a branch of the Memphis Police Department’s (MPD) general
assignment bureau. “[They] seldom get out of the office. [They] make telephone
calls and put information in the computer,” the MPD officer said.
The Missing Persons bureau does not do the field work that characterizes the
Homicide bureau.
The MPD officer familiar with the investigation said the department’s
heightened response and the shift to Homicide were a direct result of pressure
from Harvard and St. Jude Children’s
“It was transferred from [MPD’s Missing Persons bureau] to Homicide because it
was a high-profile case,” the officer said.
Susan Wiley said police told her they made the switch because Homicide had more
manpower than Missing Persons, and MPD spokesperson Latanya Able said the
bureaus frequently worked together.
Able said that the homicide department conducted forensic tests on Wiley’s car
when they took over the case. By this time, the car had been handled and
removed from the bridge.
Able would not comment on the results of the tests, but Susan Wiley said that
police told her they found just two partial fingerprints.
Tests are rarely done at the scene of the crime without signs of foul play,
according to the MPD officer. But Susan Wiley said that Sgt. Robert Shemwell,
the homicide detective in contact with the family, told her that the car’s
missing hubcap and the yet-unexplained streaks of yellow paint on its bumper
indicated that, even at first sight, the disappearance was not a clear-cut
suicide.
Tennessee Department of Transportation official Bob Parrish said that the car,
parked in a construction zone on the
A half-inch of rain also fell in
According to James Burke, a state-certified private investigator in
Within days of taking over the case, homicide detectives also scanned
surveillance videos at local stores for evidence of Wiley’s activity after he
left the hotel, put up posters with Wiley’s picture and interviewed
According to True, the department has assigned three full-time detectives to
work exclusively on the Wiley case and can add more as needed.
Able stressed that Wiley is still being investigated as a missing person, not a
suicide.
But the MPD officer said, “We probably know where he is right now, but no one
wants to believe us. Ninety-nine percent of abandoned cars we find, [the
drivers] go in the river.”
Able, who took over responsibility as the MPD spokesperson on the Wiley case
yesterday, declined to comment on any of the evidence Susan Wiley says Shemwell
discussed with her.
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Published on Friday, November 30, 2001
Colleagues Doubt Wiley Suicide Theory
Memphis police fail to turn up additional leads in disappearence
By JENIFER L. STEINHARDT
Contributing Writer
Two days after the Memphis police declared Loeb Professor of Biophysics and
Biochemistry Don C. Wiley likely to have committed suicide, colleagues of the
professor, now missing for 15 days, have expressed doubt that he took his own
life.
Hidde Ploegh, Mallinckrodt professor of immunopathology, said that despite the
police department’s statements yesterday, he is not convinced that Wiley
committed suicide.
“What the police say is one thing, and what happened, I don’t think anyone
knows,” he said. “I think there are no new facts to shed light on [the
situation] and anything people add should be labeled as speculation.”
Since Wiley’s disappearance, rumors have circulated that he was perhaps
distraught about not winning the Nobel Prize in 1996, when two scientists
working on similar research received the award.
Jack L. Strominger, Higgins professor of biochemistry at Harvard who shared the
Lasker Award in 1995 and the Japan Prize in 1999 with Wiley, said that “from
everything I know, there is no possibility that he committed suicide.”
The Lasker Award is awarded to clinical scientists annually and is considered
“a precursor to receiving the Nobel Prize,” said Philippa Marrack, a professor
of immunology at the National Jewish Medical Center and an investigator with
Wiley for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Since 1962, more than half of those who won the Lasker Award went on to receive
the Nobel Prize, most within two years of receiving the Lasker.
The year after Wiley received the Lasker Award, the Nobel Prize went to
scientists Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkerngel who had shared the Lasker Award
with Wiley in 1995.
They had done earlier but similar work to Wiley’s on immunology, said William
Evans, deputy director at St. Jude’s Hospital which hosted the banquet in
A total of five people, including Wiley, were conducting the research, and only
two of the five were awarded the Nobel Prize.
Marrack said she believes Wiley knew why the two recipients were selected.
“The Nobel Prize that year was given for biological discoveries rather than the
structural solutions [which Wiley worked with],” said Marrack, a colleague of
Wiley’s for more than 15 years.
Marrack said she never discussed the 1996 Nobel Prize with Wiley but emphasized
that he wasn’t the only candidate not to receive the Nobel Prize that year.
“It wasn’t just Don Wiley; there were others, and they didn’t throw themselves
off bridges,” said Marrack.
Marrack said she does not believe Wiley committed suicide.
“He didn’t seem to be a person who would do that, not under any circumstances,
and especially in his father’s town. He cared about his family,” she said.
James Davis, a colleague of Wiley’s and head tutor for the Chemistry
Department, said he doesn’t “know anymore what to think.”
“I walked across campus with Don three weeks ago, and he seemed as cheery-eyed
as ever,” he said. “I’m mystified. It’s extremely hard to believe that he would
take his own life, given what people know about his personality and sunny
disposition.”
Evans said that at the conference in
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Published on Monday, December 03, 2001
Wiley’s Family Says Suicide Highly Unlikely
Family considers hiring a private investigator to search for clues
By DANIEL K. ROSENHECK and ELISABETH S. THEODORE
Crimson Staff Writer
MEMPHIS—While police have emphasized the possibility that missing Harvard
professor Don C. Wiley committed suicide, Wiley’s family members said Saturday
that investigators have told them there is no evidence besides his rental
car—found abandoned on a bridge—to support that theory.
“I hate that suicide keeps getting brought up as the possibility rather than
one of many,” Wiley’s sister-in-law, Susan Wiley, said in her home Saturday. “I
just don’t think he committed suicide.”
Wiley, Loeb Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, was last seen at
There were no signs of foul play when his car was found on the
Memphis Police Department (MPD) Lt. Richard True, the department’s spokesperson
for the Wiley case, said last week that based on past cases with similar
evidence, “indications are [Wiley] parked the car on the bridge and took his
own life.”
But Susan Wiley said that Sgt. Robert Shemwell, an investigator on the case,
stressed to her after True’s comments were published that the MPD was treating
the disappearance as a missing persons case rather than a suicide. The MPD
prohibits investigators from commenting publicly, and recently directed
supervisors on the case to reroute all inquiries to True.
Family and colleagues who saw Wiley right before his disappearance agree that
his behavior was pleasant and unremarkable, and that he was at the pinnacle of his
career.
Even if Wiley were suicidal, his brother Greg Wiley said, jumping off a
Greg Wiley added that his brother was protective of their father—whose wife,
Wiley’s mother, died last year—and would not have done something to cause him
pain so close to the family’s hometown.
“He wouldn’t have done it in
Wiley’s father, Bill Wiley, said the family had not yet decided whether they
would hire a private investigator, but were considering the possibility.
But while the family doubts that Wiley took his own life, Bill Wiley said hope
that his son is still alive is dwindling.
“We always hold out hope, but it’s down to five percent or so,” he said. “It’s
been two weeks.”
According to True, tips to the department have spiked since the reward for
“information leading to the arrest and charge” of anyone connected with the
disappearance has increased.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has helped to oversee Wiley’s lab
for the last two weeks, added $15,000 on Thursday to the $5,000 contributed by
Harvard and $5,000 of private donations from members of the St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital in Memphis, which sponsored the banquet Wiley attended at the
Peabody Hotel where he was last seen.
But while Wiley’s brother and sister-in-law said that they appreciated the
MPD’s thoroughly investigating all leads, the tips Shemwell told them about
seem unlikely to make a major contribution to the search.
“They had someone who said they saw him at a garage sale,” Susan Wiley said.
True himself cautioned that tips inspired by rewards have a low success rate.
“Most of these leads will turn out to be nothing,” he said. “But if one lead out
of 500 turns out to be conclusive, it’s worth it.”
Employees at the
One
The employee said Wiley, who stayed for cocktails at the
At Harvard, administrators are waiting for an announcement from
Wiley is scheduled to co-teach Biological Sciences 56: “Structure, Function,
and Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules” with Higgins Professor of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Stephen C. Harrison in the spring.
Andrew P. McMahon, Baird professor of science and chair of the Department of
Molecular and Cellular Biology, said the department has made no changes to its
spring course offerings as a result of Wiley’s disappearance.
If necessary, changes will be made “in enough time to be able to teach the
course,” McMahon said.
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3 Suspects Interested in Occult and Witchcraft, Friends Say
Michael Paul Pfohl and Katherine Erne Inglis, above and Kyle Hulbert have been
charged in the killing of Robert M. Schwartz. (
_____From The Post_____
• Daughter Charged in Slaying of Scientist (The Washington Post, Feb 2, 2002)
• Va. Slaying Suspects Allegedly Talked With Victim's Daughter (The Washington
Post, Feb 1, 2002)
• Suspect in Slaying Has Mental History (The Washington Post, Dec 19, 2001)
• Slain Physicist Remembered, Mourned in Va. (The Washington Post, Dec 16,
2001)
• Three Charged In Va. Scientist's Fatal Stabbing (The Washington Post, Dec 13,
2001)
• Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun Home (The Washington Post, Dec 12, 2001)
By Maria Glod and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, December 14, 2001; Page A01
The three young friends accused of killing a respected Loudoun County scientist
were fascinated with fantasy worlds, witchcraft and the occult, and the slaying
had overtones of their fixation, friends and law enforcement sources said
yesterday.
At least one was involved in a self-described coven and dabbled in
self-mutilation and drinking blood, those who know him said. The trio's
curiosities turned deadly Saturday when they carried out "a planned
assassination" using a two-foot sword, a prosecutor said.
Kyle Hulbert, 18, the purported ringleader of the plot, bounced among foster
homes, wore black and spent countless hours in Internet chat rooms. He was
known to some as "Demon."
Katie Inglis, 19, a talented artist who often was teased in high school because
she was quiet, abruptly left a Navy basic training camp in
Loudoun law enforcement authorities said the three piled into a black Honda
Civic on Saturday and drove in the rain up the steep, winding dirt road to
Robert M. Schwartz's isolated fieldstone-and-log farmhouse. Authorities are
uncertain what exactly went on inside, but they said that Schwartz, 57, was
stabbed and slashed repeatedly with the sword and that an "X" was
carved in the back of his neck.
During a hearing yesterday in Loudoun District Court, Commonwealth's Attorney
Robert D. Anderson said, "There were statements made that these
individuals were involved in the planning, execution and cover-up of this
planned assassination."
County officials will not comment on a motive in the slaying. They said the
three suspects are acquainted with Schwartz's younger daughter, Clara. Law
enforcement sources said detectives are investigating whether Robert Schwartz
may have been killed because he would not allow Clara to associate with the
others. Clara Schwartz has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Pfohl and Inglis, who were arrested Wednesday in
Loudoun Public Defender Bonnie Hoffman, who was appointed to represent Inglis,
did not return calls. Prosecutors said they do not know whether Pfohl and
Hulbert have hired lawyers. Pfohl's family declined to comment.
Matt Hulbert, Kyle Hulbert's father, said his son has been diagnosed with
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. "Kyle has serious, serious mental
issues," Matt Hulbert said. "He has been off his medication for three
months."
Investigators are interviewing the suspects and their friends and family
members and searching computer records to piece together the connections among
Hulbert, Pfohl and Inglis -- and Clara Schwartz. Friends said that Pfohl and
Inglis have been dating for years and that the two often hung out with Hulbert.
One friend said Hulbert was especially close to Pfohl, calling him "my
brother." Inglis and Clara Schwartz graduated from
The suspects favored all-black outfits, long black coats and colored hair,
neighbors and friends said. None of the three was employed, according to
neighbors and court records.
Fran Broomall, 55, of
"He was into witchcraft, and some of the people he was running with -- a
coven they called it -- would get together and talk about things of that
nature," said
Hulbert's "coven," it appears, was a ragtag group of young men and
women who apparently delved into the mystical. They read books on witchcraft
and donned dark outfits. They were obsessed with blood and corresponded in
letters and on the Internet about drinking it, according to letters left behind
at
Self-mutilation was common, and
The leader of the coven, who asked not to be identified, said that Pfohl and
Inglis were not members but shared their interests. She said the coven is
peaceful.
Hulbert sometimes carried weapons. He was arrested Oct. 8 at Potomac Mills Mall
on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, court records say.
Law enforcement sources said scores of knives and an altar were found during a
search of the home Pfohl and Inglis shared in Haymarket. Inglis, who used to
live with her parents in a rural part of Loudoun, was shy, former classmates
said. They said she excelled in art class and often read fantasy novels.
In January, Inglis reported to the Naval Recruit Training Command center in
Inglis's parents could not be reached for comment, but John Kerkham, a friend
and neighbor who spoke last night to Inglis's father, Robert, said he was
distraught and baffled by the arrest. "She was the last girl in the world
I would have thought would be involved in this, though I think she might have
been easily led," Kerkham said.
Perry Nicholson, who owns the Sweet Springs Country Store about a mile from the
Inglis home, said Pfohl was first seen in the area about three years ago.
Shortly afterward, Nicholson said, Pfohl came by and asked for lessons at the
shooting range Nicholson operates. Nicholson said Pfohl often spoke of the
military and said he wanted to join the Special Forces. "He was always
talking about violent stuff," Nicholson said.
On Friday, Hulbert appeared in Prince William County General District Court and
pleaded guilty to trespassing -- the October concealed-weapons charge was
dropped -- and was released on the condition that he perform 25 hours of
community service and stay on good behavior.
The next day, police said, he and his friends drove to Schwartz's house.
Schwartz's family members, who are gathering at his parents' house in
"This is so unbelievably awful, what happened," sister Maria Schwartz
said. "All of his children are beside themselves. We're trying to pull
together as a family."
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Three Charged In Va. Scientist's Fatal Stabbing
Suspects Friends of Daughter, Police Say
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 13, 2001; Page B01
Three people were charged with murder yesterday in the slashing death of a
respected Loudoun County biophysicist in what law enforcement sources say was a
particularly vicious killing.
Schwartz, who worked at
Kyle Hulbert, 18, of
Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson, who announced the arrests at a news
conference last night, said that detectives have not determined a motive in the
slaying and that the investigation is continuing. He said he did not know
whether more arrests would be made.
Simpson said the three suspects are friends of Schwartz's youngest daughter,
Clara, 19, a student at
"Investigators will only reveal that the three individuals charged are
acquaintances of the victim's adult daughter," Simpson said. "We
don't know how familiar they were with the father, but we know they knew him.
Whether they came in with this intent or this was a discussion that went bad,
we don't know."
Simpson said investigators were interviewing the three late yesterday evening.
"If they continue to cooperate we'll know more soon," he said.
Loudoun investigators have been working round-the-clock interviewing friends
and family and searching two residences in
Schwartz, 57, who was well-known and respected in the national scientific
community, was found dead Monday after co-workers at the center asked a
neighbor to check on him because he hadn't shown up for work and then missed a
1 p.m. meeting. He was last seen Friday.
Officials said there was no indication of forced entry into Schwartz's
fieldstone-and-log home and no sign that anything was stolen. Schwartz had
lived alone since his children went away to college, friends said; his wife,
Joan Radius, died of cancer about four years ago.
Sources said the suspects were seen by witnesses Saturday when their car became
stuck on the winding dirt road that leads to the Schwartz home. A tow truck
driver helped free the car.
Law enforcement officials said the three suspects do not go to school with
Clara Schwartz. No one was home at Inglis's house, and the people who answered
the door at Pfohl's house declined to comment. Hulbert's family could not be
located.
Kathleen Tatum, who lives in Pfohl's Haymarket neighborhood, said he seemed
reserved.
"They are a very nice family, very quiet," Tatum said. "Nothing
ever was strange. It's a shocker."
Brad Hager, a friend of the Schwartz family, said Schwartz had been close to
his three children, Clara, Catherine and Jesse, especially since their mother
died.
"He was very dedicated to his children," Hager said. "It's a sad
thing, whoever did this."
Hager said that he spoke to Schwartz recently, and that Schwartz had said he
was looking forward to a holiday trip to
Colleagues at the center said Schwartz often talked about his children and his
pets, which included a dog, goats and a bird. "He was an open guy,"
said Anne Armstrong, the center's president. "We knew all about his kids
and his horse."
Armstrong said Schwartz was a leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysis and
biometrics. He worked for the past 15 years with the center, where he most
recently served as executive director of research and development and
university relations, helping to administer grants.
Colleagues in the biotechnology community described Schwartz as a brilliant
scientist who was skilled at translating complex scientific data to computers
so it could be more easily analyzed.
"He was well-known and highly regarded," said Mark Herzog, executive
director of the Virginia Biotechnology Association. "We have just been
receiving so many phone calls and e-mails expressing condolences from all
around the country."
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People Are Getting Smarter
By Barry Chamish
[email protected]
After eight lectures in
* "Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off one by one
and this covert war is going unnoticed. A plane carrying scientists to
* "Three suicide and car bombers make it to downtown
* "I've done a little research into Shimon Peres' childhood and there's
one item which has been overlooked that may explain everything. It turns out
his father went to
* (From the same source. He phones
I make a pilgrimage to Ground Zero. I've seen pictures of wartime
* "They're hiding the real death figures. They've got it down to only 3200
now. Now I'll tell you why that can't be. Only one company released its
fatality figures, Cantor Fitzgerald. They lost 700 employees working on four
floors. Even accounting for their being on top floors, you take 220 storeys and
do the math, you get a figure of 42,000. And that's just employees, not
visitors. The New York Times prints whatever deceased they can collect through
the obituaries and that's the only source of deaths available. Where is the
official fatality list? It's been two months and no list of the dead has been
published. After any other tragedy, the list is made public immediately. Why
hasn't a list been compiled and released of the
* "I knew the story of the plane hijackings was baloney when the Times
published the, supposedly, only black box transcripts which survived. Four
planes, and only one black box survived. Did you read the cockpit recording? It
was straight out of Dragnet; 'Don't do anything stupid,' says the terrorist.
"But if you think that was contrived, look at the stupid story they told
us about Flight 93. This was the plan that went wrong. To get the other three
planes to crash into the
Good advice from one of the many people who have wised up, we hope, in time.
___
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www.amazon.com, The new e-mail address for the 2nd edition of Who Murdered
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The toll free numbers to inquire about all books are:
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The following is a comment from Dr. Patricia Doyle;
"Something big happening. I am getting very close. I think that biotech
and govt. needed massive funding for this genetic bioweapon project and that is
why anthrax was mailed. I think we now have a "target" weapon, i.e.
ethnic or racial target weapon.
Something BIG is happening. My guess is that this has to do with Dr. Wiley.
Quite possibly both scientists stumbled onto something. Does the
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The Marconi Deaths
The Independent -
The police said it was suicide, and no doubt they were right. Ex-Brigadier
Peter Ferry, a marketing manager at Marconi's Command and Control Systems
centre at Frimley,
The method chosen was perhaps marginally more grisly than in the case of
several other Marconi employees. In 1986, for example, Ashad Sharif, a computer
analyst who worked for Marconi Defence Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex, tied one
end of a rope around his neck, another to a tree, and put his car into gear.
Two months earlier, the body of Vimal Dajibhai, a software engineer responsible
for checking the guidance systems of Tigerfish torpedos for Marconi Underwater
Systems, was found under
In March 1987, David Sands, a project manager working on secret satellite radar
at Marconi's sister company Easams, in Camberley, drove up a slip road on his
way to work and into a cafe at an estimated 80mph. A year later, Trevor Knight,
a computer engineer at Marconi's space and defence base in Stanmore, died in
his fume-filled car at his home in Hertfordshire. Earlier, two other Marconi
employees, Victor Moore, a design engineer, and Roger Hill, a draughtsman, had
killed themselves, both seemingly as a result of work pressures.
There have been at least half a dozen more untoward deaths among defence
scientists and others working in the defence field. Marconi is not alone, but
it is well in the lead. The best efforts of investigative journalists have
failed to establish a link either between the various deaths or between the
deaths of the Marconi staff and the Ministry of Defence inquiry, now two years
old, into some (pounds)3bn worth of defence contracts awarded to GEC-Marconi.
No doubt in several instances pressure of work was the main factor: in a field
where millions of pounds hang on the securing of contracts, it can be intense,
especially if the Ministry of Defence investigators are hovering, as they had
been at Frimley, Brigadier Ferry's base. It is hard to believe, however, that
other factors have not also been at work. The pressure of work is also fierce
in the money markets of the City, where equally large sums are at stake. Yet
the suicide rate remains unremarkable.
Mr Ferry's death on Tuesday must add to the concern already aroused by the
alarming sequence of deaths in the defence industry. He had apparently been
depressed since his car collided with a lorry a month ago; but suicide seems an
extreme reaction. In such instances where no foul play is suspected, the
inquiries of both police and coroners are likely to be brief, partly for the
sake of the distressed relatives. They will not be concerned with establishing
a connection with comparable deaths in different counties. Since these cases
have been spread wide, there is now a case for pulling the threads together. It
may be that there is no conspiracy and no concerted skullduggery. But these
have been talented men. To allay anxieties, a senior police officer should be
appointed tohead a coordinated investigation into the underlying causes of so
high a death rate.
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The Very Mysterious Deaths Of Five Microbiologists
By Ian Gurney
www.caspro.com
12-20-1
It is a story worthy of a major conspiracy theory, the script for a Mel Gibson
"Who dunnit?" action movie, or a blueprint for a contrived and
unbeleivable episode of "The X Files". Except the facts surrounding
this story are just that. Facts. The Truth. Five emminent microbiologists,
leaders in their particular field of scientific research, either dead or
missing in the last eight weeks, and a bizzare connection between one of the
dead scientists and the mystery surrounding the death by Anthrax inhalation of
a sixty one year old female hospital worker in New York. Sounds far fetched?
Read on.
Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed scientific researchers
specializing in infectious diseases and biological agents such as Anthrax, as
well as DNA sequencing, have been found dead or have gone missing.
First, on Novemeber 12th, was Dr. Benito Que, a cell biologist working on
infectious diseases like HIV, who was found dead outside his laboratory at the
"The incident, whatever it may have been, occurred on Monday afternoon as
the scientist left his job at
On November 16th, within of week of Dr. Que's assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, one of
the United States foremost infectious disease researchers was declared missing.
Bill Poovey, a journalist with Associated Press wrote:
"His rental car was found with a full tank of petrol and the keys in the
ignition. His disappearance looked like a suicide, but according to colleagues
and Dr. Wiley's family, the Harvard Scientist associated with the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute would NEVER commit suicide. Associates who attended the St.
Jude's Children Research Advisory Dinner with Dr. Wiley, just hours before he
disappeared, said that he was in good spirits and NOT depressed. He was last
seen at the banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown
Wiley left the hotel around
Now
"We began this investigation as a missing person investigation," said
Walter Crews of the Memphis Police Department. "From there it went to a
more criminal bent."
Dr. Wiley was an expert on how the human immune system fights off infections
and had recently investigated such dangerous viruses as AIDS, Ebola, herpes and
influenza.
From the
"The defection to
Back to the United States, and on December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was
found murdered in Leesberg, Virginia. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA
sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where
he worked on DNA sequencing for 15 years.
On Wednesday, December 12th the Washington Post reported:
"A well-known biophysicist, who was one of the leading researchers on DNA
sequencing analysis, was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after
co-workers became concerned when he didn't arrive at work as expected. Robert
M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association,
was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of Leesburg where
he lived alone. Loudoun sheriff's officials said it appeared that Schwartz had
been stabbed."
And so to Victoria State, Australia, where, on December 14th, a skilled
microbiologist was killed at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. This is
the same facility that, as the journal Nature announced in January this year:
"Australian scientists, Dr Ron Jackson and Dr Ian Ramshaw, accidentally
created an astonishingly virulent strain of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox,
among laboratory mice. They realised that if similar genetic manipulation was
carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed."
The microbiologist who died had worked for 15 years at the facility. His name
was Set Van Nguyen. Victoria Police said:
"Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into
a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife
became worried after he failed to return from work. He was killed after
entering a low temperature storage area where biological samples were kept. He
did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid
nitrogen cooling system. Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen collapsed and
died."
Now for the intriguing part of this story. On Friday, November 2nd, the
Washington Post reported:
"Officials are now scrambling to determine how a quiet, 61-year-old
Vietnamese immigrant, riding the subway each day to and from her job in a
hospital stockroom, was exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that killed her
this week. They worry because there is no obvious connection to the factors
common to earlier anthrax exposures and deaths: no clear link to the mail or to
the media."
The name of this quiet 61 year old hospital worker was Kathy Nguyen.
Copyright Ian Gurney, December 2001. Ian Gurney is the author of "The CassandraProphecy"
www.caspro.com
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Dead And Missing Scientists, Armageddon, Genetic Bioweapons
And The Return Of The Lost Tribes Of Israel
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
[email protected]
12-13-1
Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed researchers, geniuses by many
accounts, specializing in infectious diseases, as well as DNA sequencing have
been found dead or have gone missing. I believe these scientists were unaware
of their participation in the developing of a genetic bioweapon that will wipe
out as much as one third of the population on planet earth.
In Novemeber, Dr. Benito Que, cell biologist working on infectious diseases like
HIV was found comatose outside of his lab at the
Within of week of Dr. Que's assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, foremost infectious
disease researcher was declared missing. His rental car was found with a full
tank of gas and the keys in the ignition. His disappearance made to look like a
suicide.
According to colleagues and Dr. Wiley's family, the Harvard Scientist
associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute would NEVER commit suicide.
Associates who attended the St. Jude's Children Research Advisory Dinner with
Dr. Wiley, just hours before he disappeared, said that he was in good spirits
and NOT depressed.
On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, the foremost Soviet Biopreparat
scientist who was responsible for aerosolizing plague and was the successful
developer of binary weapons known as the 'Novichok group' of weapons was found
dead.
Dr. Pasechnik defected from the
On December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found murdered in his secluded
farmhouse in
Halfway around the world in December, a skilled microbiologist was killed at
CSIRO's animal diseases facility in
I believe there a cabal exists in the
This pathogen is going to be genetically-altered to only infect a certain group
of people. I believe that Dr. Wiley's research of immunity factors of viruses,
bacterias and mycoplasmas will be used to create a pathogen that will NOT
infect (will leave untouched) a designated genetic type.
This portion of the genetic target weapon was no doubt developed with research
from Dr. Schwartz. In essence, a doomsday bioweapon can be released with a
guarantee that the genetic code of certain individuals, and the virus itself,
will protect these individuals from infection.
If an unaltered pathogen were released, such as a virulent strain of Ebola or
other level 4 bioweapon, those who release it would also fall victim to it. A
type of MAD, mutually assured destruction, has thus far prevented the release
of Level 4 pathogens. However, if there was a bioweapon that would NOT kill
those who release it, then we would see a worldwide pandemic with a protected
group left unaffected by the pandemic or "plague." ___
It has been stated throughout the Bible that when the lost 10 tribes of Israel
return to their homeland to fight and win the battle of Armadeddon and
Solomon's temple is rebuilt, the return of the Messiah and end of the world as
we know it will be at hand.
9 of the 10 tribes have been found. They have been found in areas of the world
now involved in the Afghan war. One of the missing tribes is thought to be
Pathan peoples of
I believe that we are going to see the prophecy of the return of lost tribes to
Before the year 2001 ends, there will be more leading scientists murdered as
well as those who try to bring public attention to this plot. The year 2002
will usher in the year of "Asher." The last lost tribe will be found,
and the progeny of the 10 lost tribes will return to
I am not a visionary, but, I do recognize the situation at hand. The deaths of
world-renowned scientists in the field of infectious diseases is a warning that
the last days are here. By connecting the dots, so to speak, with regard to
each scientists specialized field, I believe we can conclude a major bioweapon
is in the process of development and will soon be unleased upon the world.
Furthermore, I believe that the anthrax (hoax) mailings of 1998 as well as the
anthrax mailings of 2001 were perpertrated by the same cabal working on the
ultimate genetic bioweapon. The purpose of the mailings was not to kill people,
at this time.
The purpose was two-fold: The mailings were intended to panic the public into
allowing the Government to subvert the constitution and take away many of our
freedoms. This has been accomplished. Additionally, it also created a way to
force mass vaccinations of the public. This part is being talked about and is
clearly in the offing.
The panic caused by the anthrax mailings also inculcated within the Government,
Congress, Military - and the public to be sure - a relaxed attitude regarding
our involvement in offensive bioweapons research. It enabled the bioweaponeers
to proceed with their plans to create a genetic bioweapon without large outcry.
There is still time, and we, the public, can stop those who plot against
humanity and God. We can contact our representatives in Congress and demand
some answers regarding the source of the anthrax mailings, as well as demand an
investigation into the recent deaths of major infectious disease researchers.
It seems obvious that the supply of anthrax used in the recent mailings
originated in
Please write to your representatives and demand some answers...
Thank you, Patricia Doyle
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Revealed - Another Top BioWarfare Scientist Murdered
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
[email protected]
As I mentioned on your program, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik was responsible for
viability of plague as aerosolized bioweapon. He came up with polymer coating.
He also worked on binary weapons, such as substance A232 and substance 233
Novichok.
Scientists, drop like flies, has to make you wonder. All in the past month, by
the way
Patricia
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On November 23, 2001, the New York Times reported the death, two days earlier,
of Vladimir Pasechnik, former director of the Institute of Ultra Pure
Biochemical Preparations, a component of the Soviet biowarfare establishment,
Biopreparat. Pasechnik had defected to
In Russia the National News Service commented: "The chief developer (while
in Soviet Union) of the military grade plague as well as several successful
types of binary weapons died, according to the New York Times obituary, from
the stroke, although the fact that the newspaper quotes a former member of British
intelligence rather than the doctor, makes people to believe in the other
versions of death of the person who knew too much."While the 'other
versions' of Pasechnik's death and the substance of those matters of which he
"knew too much" are not revealed, the coincidence of Pasechnik's
death and the recent rash of anthrax-related illnesses and deaths is certainly
interesting.
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And Another Strange Death - Top DNA Scientist Murdered
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
[email protected]
12-12-1
It would appear that we have a "simple" case of burglary victim
coming home and catching burglars in the act. As a result Dr. Robert M.
Schwartz, age 57 was killed. ...OR, was Dr. Schwartz death made to look like a
simple burglary/murder case?
Maybe this case is not really so simple, especially when you add it to the case
of the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Don C. Wiley, leading Harvard Researcher
who worked on AIDS, Ebola, Smallpox, and Infectious Influenza. Dr. Wiley
specialized on "infectivity" of viruses, bacterias and mycoplasmas.
Dr. Wiley disappeared on
Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was a leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysis was
found dead in the secluded northern Virginia farmhouse where he lived alone,
police said.
We're all stunned," said Anne Armstrong, president of the
Dr. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association,
worked at the center for almost 15 years and had served as executive director
of research and development and university relations, Armstrong said. He also
worked on the first national online database of DNA sequence information.
On November 16, a cellular biologist at the Miami Medical school was found
comatose by
All three researchers appear to have simple explanations for their demise,
disappearance, or assault. When you begin to connect the dots, the above cases
do not appear to be so simple.
Patricia Doyle
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Comment
From From Name Withheld
12-12-1
Dear Sirs:
In today's Washington Post, Wed. Dec 12th, on the front pg of Metro Section is
an article entitled:
"Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun (County) Home"
1st paragraph:
"A well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA
sequencing analysis was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after
co-workers became concerned that he didn't come to work Monday, authorities
said yesterday. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia
Biotechnology Association."
Am I mistaken, or is this another of a long list of top-level (Harvard, etc)
scientists in this field who have recently been abducted, disappeared, or
killed....?????
I saw an article, and I think it was by Barry Chamish, listing the experts in
this field who, he says, are being killed off..... (I think it was this field,
or at least the field pertaining to bioterrorism info and genetics) - and he
says it is deliberate.
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Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun Home
Peers Alarmed When He Missed Work
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 12, 2001; Page B01
A well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA
sequencing analysis was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after
co-workers became concerned that he didn't come to work Monday, authorities
said yesterday.
Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology
Association, was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of
Leesburg where he lived alone. Friends said Schwartz's wife died of cancer
several years ago and their three children are away at college.
Loudoun sheriff's officials said an autopsy will be conducted today at the
medical examiner's office in
Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said Schwartz was last heard from Friday.
Co-workers at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, a government-funded
nonprofit agency in Herndon that was created by the General Assembly in 1984,
asked neighbors to check on Schwartz when he didn't show up for work Monday and
then missed a 1 p.m. meeting.
"We're all stunned," said CIT President Anne Armstrong. "We
don't know anything. What we're assuming is maybe he walked in on
something."
Simpson declined to say whether investigators have any suspects but said
officers worked all night Monday gathering evidence and preparing a search
warrant for an undisclosed location. "We have some leads we are following
up on," Simpson said.
Armstrong called Schwartz "one of the smartest people I ever met" and
said Schwartz worked at CIT for almost 15 years. Recently he served as
executive director of research and development and university relations,
helping to administer public grants.
According to CIT's Web site, Schwartz graduated cum laude from
Robert G. Templin, who worked at CIT for about six years, described Schwartz as
a brilliant scientist who had a gift for explaining complex scientific subjects
in simple language.
"He was the kind of person who could live in the scientific world or the
business world or the everyday world of
Neighbors described Schwartz as a quiet man who always stopped to help if a car
was stuck on the narrow dirt road leading to their homes. They said he adored
his farmhouse and the horse and three goats he kept in a grassy fence-lined
pasture. He also had a dog and a bird.
"He enjoyed rural living," Templin said. "Outside of his
professional work, his children and family were his major focus."
Armstrong said she last spoke with Schwartz on Friday at the CIT office in
Herndon. "He was concerned about getting home because he had to muck out
the horse stall," she said.
Armstrong said Schwartz's assistant came to her Monday when he didn't come into
the office.
"She said, 'Did Bob tell you he was going to be anyplace different today?'
" Armstrong recalled. "She said he never goes anyplace without
calling."
When Schwartz still hadn't arrived for a
"We know very little about the circumstances of Bob's death, except that
the
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Researcher Slain
Leading Biophysicist Found Dead in Va. Farmhouse
The Associated Press
L E E S B U R G, Va., Dec. 12 — A leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysis
and founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association was found dead in
the secluded farmhouse where he lived alone, police said Tuesday.
Robert M. Schwartz, 57, was found by neighbors Monday after co-workers called
them to say Schwartz had uncharacteristically skipped work and missed a
meeting.
An autopsy will determine Schwartz's cause of death, but sources told The
Washington Post for a story today that it appeared Schwartz had been stabbed.
"We're all stunned," said Anne Armstrong, president of the
Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said investigators worked all night at the
secluded farmhouse where Schwartz lived, and that detectives had some leads.
Schwartz worked at CIT for almost 15 years and had served as executive director
of research and development and university relations, Armstrong said. He also
worked on the first national online database of DNA sequence information.
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Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun Home
Peers Alarmed When He Missed Work
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 12, 2001; Page B01
A well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA
sequencing analysis was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after
co-workers became concerned that he didn't come to work Monday, authorities
said yesterday.
Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology
Association, was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of
Leesburg where he lived alone. Friends said Schwartz's wife died of cancer
several years ago and their three children are away at college.
Loudoun sheriff's officials said an autopsy will be conducted today at the
medical examiner's office in
Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said Schwartz was last heard from Friday.
Co-workers at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, a government-funded
nonprofit agency in Herndon that was created by the General Assembly in 1984,
asked neighbors to check on Schwartz when he didn't show up for work Monday and
then missed a 1 p.m. meeting.
"We're all stunned," said CIT President Anne Armstrong. "We
don't know anything. What we're assuming is maybe he walked in on
something."
Simpson declined to say whether investigators have any suspects but said
officers worked all night Monday gathering evidence and preparing a search
warrant for an undisclosed location. "We have some leads we are following
up on," Simpson said.
Armstrong called Schwartz "one of the smartest people I ever met" and
said Schwartz worked at CIT for almost 15 years. Recently he served as
executive director of research and development and university relations,
helping to administer public grants.
According to CIT's Web site, Schwartz graduated cum laude from
Robert G. Templin, who worked at CIT for about six years, described Schwartz as
a brilliant scientist who had a gift for explaining complex scientific subjects
in simple language.
"He was the kind of person who could live in the scientific world or the
business world or the everyday world of
Neighbors described Schwartz as a quiet man who always stopped to help if a car
was stuck on the narrow dirt road leading to their homes. They said he adored
his farmhouse and the horse and three goats he kept in a grassy fence-lined
pasture. He also had a dog and a bird.
"He enjoyed rural living," Templin said. "Outside of his
professional work, his children and family were his major focus."
Armstrong said she last spoke with Schwartz on Friday at the CIT office in
Herndon. "He was concerned about getting home because he had to muck out
the horse stall," she said.
Armstrong said Schwartz's assistant came to her Monday when he didn't come into
the office.
"She said, 'Did Bob tell you he was going to be anyplace different today?'
" Armstrong recalled. "She said he never goes anyplace without
calling."
When Schwartz still hadn't arrived for a
"We know very little about the circumstances of Bob's death, except that
the
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- NATIONAL
Scientist dies in lab airlock
A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had
logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today.
Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died yesterday
morning after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with
nitrogen.
His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from
work.
Releasing his name today, police said Mr Nguyen had worked for CSIRO's
Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) as a microbiologist for 15 years.
He was killed after entering a low temperature storage area where biological
samples were kept.
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Police said he did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had leaked
from a liquid nitrogen cooling system.
Unable to breathe, he collapsed and died.
Safety authorities are still investigating.
Mr Nguyen's death brings Victoria's workplace death toll to 29 this year
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Scientist dies in lab airlock
(Sydney Morning Herald)
A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had
logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today. Victoria Police
said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died yesterday morning after entering
an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen.
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Russian Surgeon, 24, Dies on Highway While Fleeing Police
By Masha Herbst Associated Press Writer
Published: Dec 11, 2001
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - A 24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut
was fatally struck by a car as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film,
police said.
Doctors who worked with Roman Kuzmin at
"I think that's rubbish," said Ted Kennon, a Yale physician who
worked closely with Kuzmin. "I'd be very surprised if there was anything
to that."
According to police, Kuzmin was carrying the film when he walked out of BJ's
Wholesale Club in Waterbury and security guards chased him across a parking lot
after an alarm sounded.
By the time two police officers arrived, Kuzmin had fled into a ravine that
runs along Interstate 84, Capt. Paul Bruce said. When the officers' flashlights
came upon Kuzmin, he scrambled up the embankment and onto the highway.
"The officers warned him to stop, not to go into the highway," Bruce
said.
Kuzmin left Vladivostok in September to study orthopedic surgical techniques at
Waterbury Hospital under a Keggi Othopedic Foundation program. Dr. Kristaps
Keggi, who organized the program, said Kuzmin was "very able, very bright
- a superb student and a superb individual."
Keggi said he thought it impossible that the young man would steal. He said
Kuzmin was so honest that he refused to take toilet paper from the surgeon's
lounge when he ran out at his apartment.
Kuzmin's parents have begun the 6,400-mile journey to Waterbury and are
expected to arrive Wednesday evening to claim their son's body, Keggi said.
Igor Kuzmin is a prominent orthopedic surgeon in Vladivostok.
"It's an amazing loss for us personally, and an amazing loss for Russia
too, because he was a man who was going to be a leading person in Russian
orthopedic surgery, without question," Keggi said.
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Harvard professor's body found Autopsy planned in Tennessee
By David Abel, Globe Staff and Michele Kurtz Globe Correspondent, 12/21/2001
ive weeks after Harvard biochemist Don C. Wiley mysteriously disappeared in
Memphis, police yesterday found his body floating 320 miles to the south in a
tributary of the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
The body was discovered shortly before 10 a.m., snagged on a tree in log-strewn
water next to a hydroelectric station in Vidalia.
Police found a wallet with documents that identified the body, which matched
the height and weight of the 57-year-old nationally acclaimed specialist in
infectious diseases. FBI officials in New Orleans notified Memphis police at
3:15 p.m. yesterday, and officials last night sent the remains to the Shelby
County medical examiner's office in Memphis for an autopsy to determine the
cause of death.
''That is all we know right now,'' said Officer Latanya Able, public
information officer for the Memphis Police Department. ''This is very sad and
our hearts go out to the family.''
After holding out hope for more than a month that his older brother would be
found alive, Greg Wiley said last night that he and his family were accepting
his death.
''This is all really kind of mind-boggling,'' he said. ''All we can do is wait
and see. It now seems like he's really not with us anymore.''
Wiley was last seen around midnight on Nov. 14 at the Peabody Hotel, while
attending a two-day annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital.
At 4 a.m., police found Wiley's rental car on a mile-long bridge that spans the
Mississippi River, with his rental car contract in the glove compartment, the
keys in the ignition, and a full tank of gas. The Mitsubishi Galant was pointed
west, the opposite direction from Wiley's father's Memphis home, where the
professor had planned to spend the night.
Police combed the river and the city but could not find any clues as to what
happened to the professor, whose work had received the prestigious Lasker and
Japan awards.
Wiley had planned to spend the weekend with his wife and two young children in
Memphis, and the family had bought tickets to visit Graceland.
His family and friends said he would not commit suicide.
Wiley had no apparent history of mental health problems, no family or financial
problems, and he was actively involved in raising his children, ages 7 and 10.
His wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, said she and her husband had bought tickets
for a Christmas trip to Iceland, for which Wiley had been spending time
learning Icelandic, her native language.
In a statement, Harvard president Lawrence Summers said last night, ''All of us
are profoundly saddened by today's news. Don Wiley was a brilliant biologist
and a greatly admired member of this community. His loss leaves a tremendous
void.''
Wiley, an expert on how the immune system fights infection, had studied the
Ebola virus, HIV, herpes, and influenza.
The professor was most widely known for his work in X-ray crystallography. He
was widely regarded as the nation's foremost expert in using special X-ray
cameras and mathematical formulas to make high-resolution images of viruses
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Top Deadly Contagious Virus: Harvard Professor Goes Missing
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
[email protected]
11-23-1
Hello Jeff - I wonder if this scientist might be a missing link in the Anthrax
cases? He might have been blackmailed into providing anthrax. Who knows?
Given his expertise in deadly INFECTIOUS viruses, especially flu, I wonder if
we are going to be hit with a virulent and deadly flu epidemic?
Patricia
Harvard Professor Missing
By Douglas Belkin - Boston Globe Staff and
Jenny Jiang - Globe Correspondent
11-21-1
A world-renowned Harvard scientist and expert in highly contagious and deadly
viruses mysteriously disappeared in Tennessee early last Friday, leaving a
rental car on a Memphis bridge.
Don C. Wiley was in town to visit relatives and attend the annual meeting of
the scientific advisory board of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Police said there were no signs of foul play, just the car with the keys in the
ignition on a bridge that spans the Mississippi River. Police found the car
five hours after Wiley left a dinner at a posh hotel several blocks from the
bridge.
''This is totally unexpected. He was fine on Thursday night,'' said Dr. Joseph
Mirro, executive vice president at St. Jude's Hospital.
The disappearance of the popular, gregarious scientist has shaken the
scientific board and the staff and directors of the hospital, Mirro said.
''This is a terrible event and a great loss to the scientific community,'' he
added, assuming the worst. ''He is an extremely brilliant scientist in medicine
and understanding biology.''
In Cambridge, Wiley's wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, said she was planning to fly
down on Friday to meet her 57-year-old husband with their children, ages 7 and
10. He also has two other children, ages 26 and 34, she said.
''He would never vanish. He wouldn't commit suicide,'' she said. ''I have no
idea what has happened.''
An award-winning professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Harvard, Wiley
built the first model of the structures of influenza viruses and human cells
that allow the disease organism to infect humans.
In 1985, Wiley began researching how drugs might block the process, using a
method called X-ray crystallography, in hopes of conquering maladies ranging from
the common cold to HIV.
The researcher for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard had flown to
Memphis Wednesday evening, police said, and stayed with his father in
Germantown, a suburb. Wiley's brother and sister-in-law also live in the area.
On Thursday, Wiley met with the other 14 members of the board, and was one of
150 people attending a dinner that evening.
Memphis police Lieutenant Joe Scott said that witnesses described him as being
in a good mood when he left the dinner.
''No one detected that he was despondent or was having any difficulties in any
way,'' Scott said.
At 4 a.m. Friday, police found Wiley's rented Mitsubishi Galant on the Hernando
DeSoto Bridge, which links Tennessee to Arkansas.
Memphis police said the doors were unlocked, the key was in the ignition, and
the hazard lights had not been turned on. The car had a full tank of gas.
Scott said the bridge is about 100 feet high, and has been the scene of a
handful of suicides each year. Sometimes the bodies aren't found for weeks, he
said.
''We are investigating every angle we can think of,'' Scott said.
Wiley's research focuses on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human
immune system.
Herman Eisen, an MIT professor emeritus and friend of Wiley's, said suicide
''just doesn't fit.'' Wiley ''was extremely successful at what he did. He
seemed stable and outgoing, he ran a large research group very effectively.
People held him in very high regard.''
Globe correspondents Fran Riley and Jana Benscoter contributed to this report.
This story ran on page B1 of the Boston Globe on 11/21/2001. © Copyright 2001
Globe Newspaper Company
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