Another microbiologist murdered
Anyone bothering to keep score these days?
"Im apparently suffered a knife wound to the chest, although he
would not disclose whether Im was stabbed before being placed
in the trunk of his white Honda or afterward."
Squad seeks tips in death of researcher
A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia died of multiple stab wounds before firefighters found in his body in the trunk of a burning car Friday.
Boone County Medical Examiner Valerie Rao said after an autopsy that Jeong H. Im, 72, of Columbia was stabbed several times, but she declined to elaborate. MU police yesterday named Im as the victim. His body was found in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking garage, MU police Capt. Brian Weimer said.
Im was primarily a protein chemist. Mark McIntosh, chairman of the MU department of molecular microbiology and immunology, said he doubted the crime could have been the act of an angry student.
Weimer also asked the public for help in identifying a man - 6 feet to 6 feet, 2 inches tall - who was seen in the garage area wearing some type of mask, possibly a drywall or painter’s mask.
Some recent and assuredly entirely unrelated cases:
December 14, 2004: Police say scientist was poisoned
[While Mullen was a nuclear research scientist rather than a microbiologist, it's worth noting that he lived in Chesterfield, a suburb of St Louis, close to Im's home of Columbia, Missouri. So close, Mullen's murder was also news to The Columbia Tribune:]
A nuclear physicist and former McDonnell Douglas Corp. research scientist who died suddenly last summer was deliberately killed with a massive dose of arsenic, authorities said yesterday in ruling the case murder. An investigator in this St. Louis suburb said recently completed toxicology tests now show that 67-year-old John Mullen died of acute arsenic intoxication June 29, within hours of complaining of an upset stomach at his home. Police Capt. Ed Nestor yesterday refused to publicly divulge many specifics about the matter, including possible suspects or any motive in the divorcee’s death.
April 24, 2004: Scientist found dead outside biochemical firm in Fremont
A research scientist found dead Friday morning in front of the biochemical firm he worked for apparently died after inhaling a combination of potassium cyanide and acid, police said. An employee arriving at Ciphergen Biosystems Inc., 6611 Dumbarton Circle, about 6:20 a.m. found the 29-year-old man, whom he worked with, lying on the sidewalk in front of the west entrance, and immediately called authorities, Sgt. Jeff Swadener said..... Emergency crews evacuated the business Friday morning after employees told them a 25-gram vial or bottle of powder potassium cyanide was missing.... They found the vial in a Dumpster on the other side of the parking lot, Veteran said.
Ciphergen Biosystems had received a NIH grant to fight bioterror-related viruses, and "has a screening technology designed to isolate disease-causing agents that could be used to determine, for example, if anthrax has made a person ill. The company already licenses its ProteinChip System, which analyzes large volumes of proteins from biological samples, to biotech and pharmaceutical companies, as well as the government."
For more information on this tragic and totally random non-phenomenon, see:
The Dead Scientists Blog
Dead Microbiologists
Anthrax Attacks and Microbiologists
A Career in Microbiology Can Be Harmful to Your Health
More Microbiologists Dying
"Im apparently suffered a knife wound to the chest, although he
would not disclose whether Im was stabbed before being placed
in the trunk of his white Honda or afterward."
Squad seeks tips in death of researcher
A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia died of multiple stab wounds before firefighters found in his body in the trunk of a burning car Friday.
Boone County Medical Examiner Valerie Rao said after an autopsy that Jeong H. Im, 72, of Columbia was stabbed several times, but she declined to elaborate. MU police yesterday named Im as the victim. His body was found in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking garage, MU police Capt. Brian Weimer said.
Im was primarily a protein chemist. Mark McIntosh, chairman of the MU department of molecular microbiology and immunology, said he doubted the crime could have been the act of an angry student.
Weimer also asked the public for help in identifying a man - 6 feet to 6 feet, 2 inches tall - who was seen in the garage area wearing some type of mask, possibly a drywall or painter’s mask.
Some recent and assuredly entirely unrelated cases:
December 14, 2004: Police say scientist was poisoned
[While Mullen was a nuclear research scientist rather than a microbiologist, it's worth noting that he lived in Chesterfield, a suburb of St Louis, close to Im's home of Columbia, Missouri. So close, Mullen's murder was also news to The Columbia Tribune:]
A nuclear physicist and former McDonnell Douglas Corp. research scientist who died suddenly last summer was deliberately killed with a massive dose of arsenic, authorities said yesterday in ruling the case murder. An investigator in this St. Louis suburb said recently completed toxicology tests now show that 67-year-old John Mullen died of acute arsenic intoxication June 29, within hours of complaining of an upset stomach at his home. Police Capt. Ed Nestor yesterday refused to publicly divulge many specifics about the matter, including possible suspects or any motive in the divorcee’s death.
April 24, 2004: Scientist found dead outside biochemical firm in Fremont
A research scientist found dead Friday morning in front of the biochemical firm he worked for apparently died after inhaling a combination of potassium cyanide and acid, police said. An employee arriving at Ciphergen Biosystems Inc., 6611 Dumbarton Circle, about 6:20 a.m. found the 29-year-old man, whom he worked with, lying on the sidewalk in front of the west entrance, and immediately called authorities, Sgt. Jeff Swadener said..... Emergency crews evacuated the business Friday morning after employees told them a 25-gram vial or bottle of powder potassium cyanide was missing.... They found the vial in a Dumpster on the other side of the parking lot, Veteran said.
Ciphergen Biosystems had received a NIH grant to fight bioterror-related viruses, and "has a screening technology designed to isolate disease-causing agents that could be used to determine, for example, if anthrax has made a person ill. The company already licenses its ProteinChip System, which analyzes large volumes of proteins from biological samples, to biotech and pharmaceutical companies, as well as the government."
For more information on this tragic and totally random non-phenomenon, see:
The Dead Scientists Blog
Dead Microbiologists
Anthrax Attacks and Microbiologists
A Career in Microbiology Can Be Harmful to Your Health
More Microbiologists Dying
posted by Jeff Wells at 10:59 a.m.
28 Comments:
I have to say that as a professional microbiologist myself, I am fairly skeptical that these deaths point to any conspiracy. There are hundreds of thousands of scientists working in the US. I won't rule it out, but just on the basis of several strange crimes relating to scientists it is hard to know what this means. Random violence against may be more likely, and these people may just attract more attention due to their profession.
Certainly, I find it hard to believe that a retired protein chemist from one of the lower-tier research universities was involved in any really dark activities such that he would need knocking off. Sounds like he was Korean, which may have been more of a factor in him being attacked.
My mind is open on this, but what exactly is the hypothesis regarding what these people were doing such that they needed to be knocked off? I for one don't see any pattern to these deaths.
The "From the Wilderness" article (A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health) is somewhat convincing that there is a pattern. Especially interesting is the potential link between the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation and black-ops studies.
Like I said, I won't rule anything out. But I wouldn't immediately link the violent or suspicious death of a scientist to any overall pattern. For instance, scientists often work long crazy hours, and may be more susceptible to violent crime when they are out late at night in urban areas where many research universities are. Scientists also work with dangerous things and could simply die from making a mistake. Or a scientist might really be depressed about his research and try to take his own life. Also, there can be intense competition between some labs, and foul-play may involve scientific competition gone berzerk.
But given the strange world we live, it can't hurt to be suspicious either.
here is a list i came up with in 10 mins...
Dr. David Schwartz
Dr. Benito Que
Dr. Set Van Nguyen
Dr. Kelly
Dr. Don Wiley
Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik
Dr. Ian Langford
DR. V Korshunov
Dr. A Bushlinski
Dr. I Glebov
That's a valuable perspective Spooked, thanks.
Absolutely, there may be nothing to link Im's murder to the others. (Though I do find noteworthy its proximity to Mullen's poisoning.) I believe that a common thread to the research of the microbiologists has been DNA sequencing and its military applications. Whether Im's work touched on this, I don't know.
Your comment about a lower-tier university is a valid one. Just to add to the mix, I've read that the CIA sponsors research in regional centers which are less likely to draw attention to themselves. (An example would be the covert work in Tulane in the early '60s, detailed in "Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus.")
Since these murders are likely to receive only local press without the context of each other, I think it's worthwhile to "try on" the context to see whether it fits a pattern.
And as you say you're a professional microbiologist, may I wish you the best of health! :)
FWIW, I could only find one paper this Jeong Im person is on-- he doesn't seem to have been very productive.
J Bacteriol. 1995 Oct;177(19):5636-43
"Increased structural and combinatorial diversity in an extended family of genes encoding Vlp surface proteins of Mycoplasma hyorhinis."
Nothing too thrilling as far as I am concerned. Mycoplasma hyorhinis is a pathogen of swine.
And Jeff, you're right that smaller universities may be more likely to have covert programs going on-- I hesitated even saying anything about the school-- my point was that it's not really a hotbed of research.
But maybe Im didn't publish much because was working on something so top secret he couldn't publish it-- who knows. There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
What I can say for sure is that I have no first- or even second-hand knowledge of secret black-ops programs going on in microbiology. But this might be explained by my particular speciality-- maybe if I worked more directly with nasty human pathogens I would know more about such programs.
FWIW, I could only find one paper this Jeong Im person is on-- he doesn't seem to have been very productive.
J Bacteriol. 1995 Oct;177(19):5636-43
"Increased structural and combinatorial diversity in an extended family of genes encoding Vlp surface proteins of Mycoplasma hyorhinis."
Nothing too thrilling as far as I am concerned. Mycoplasma hyorhinis is a pathogen of swine.
And Jeff, you're right that smaller universities may be more likely to have covert programs going on-- I hesitated even saying anything about the school-- my point was that it's not really a hotbed of research.
But maybe Im didn't publish much because was working on something so top secret he couldn't publish it-- who knows. There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
What I can say for sure is that I have no first-, second- or even third-hand knowledge of secret black-ops programs going on in microbiology. But this might be explained by my particular speciality-- maybe if I worked more directly with nasty human pathogens I would know more about such programs.
FWIW, I could only find one paper this Jeong Im person is on-- he doesn't seem to have been very productive.
J Bacteriol. 1995 Oct;177(19):5636-43
"Increased structural and combinatorial diversity in an extended family of genes encoding Vlp surface proteins of Mycoplasma hyorhinis."
Nothing too thrilling as far as I am concerned. Mycoplasma hyorhinis is a pathogen of swine.
Jeff and bin'dare, you're right that smaller universities may be more likely to have covert programs going on-- I hesitated even saying anything about the school-- my point was that it's not really a hotbed of research.
But maybe Im didn't publish much because was working on something so top secret he couldn't publish it-- who knows. There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
His apparent mentor, Kim Wise, has published a lot-- all on mycoplasma-- which is generally not a very pathogenic organism. As far as I know, at its worst in humans mycoplasma causes pelvic inflammatory disease. Of course it might have some special properties that I don't know about that make it good for other more sinister purposes-- possibly.
What I can say for sure is that I have no first-, second- or even third-hand knowledge of secret black-ops programs going on in microbiology. This lack of knowledge may be explained by my particular speciality-- maybe if I worked more directly with nasty human pathogens I would know more about such programs.
sorry for that, ignore the first two-- the posting interface was really acting up for me last night!
Has anyone ever found out the odd phenomenon of the 1988+ SDI "Star wars" scientists , 22 I think.
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/sdi-deaths.html
This isn't just microbiologists, and it isn't just occurring in one country.
Nuclear and weapons specialists also turn up dead rather quickly before or after public hearings or reports.
Someone, if connected to each other in any real way, does not like scientists, or maybe just their work.
Thanks for the reminder of the SDI scientists. That string of odd deaths is at least as suspicious as that of the microbiologists'.
Some here more than "odd." Some of these are extraordinarily creative methods of "suicide." Considering that most men would choose a handgun, self decapitation, self-electrocution, etc. just beggars belief- many of these are even to fantastic for a spy movie plot.
The death of the scientists could be part of.....first they killed off the intellecutals...
Spooked: I think you've got some denial going on there. I was thinking that all along reading your comments. Then I got to this bit:
Nothing too thrilling as far as I am concerned. Mycoplasma hyorhinis is a pathogen of swine.
Not too thrilling! This is exactly where much research goes on - synthesising animal pathogens to make deadly human virii. Ever heard of the work done with mousepox? Just an example of why pathogens in similar mammals could be important to understanding these deaths.
These deaths are far away from any statistical normalcy too.
When working in an addictions treatment center, a Special Forces vet came in desperate for help with guilt/PTSD issues. The VA wouldn't help him because they had nobody with security clearance. I checked. As the guy was suicidal and the VA took it so lightly (their comment was "well, he hasn't died yet, has he?" when I asked how they expected him to wait for a month for a counselor with security clearance to arrive and didn't offer any alternatives for him) I asked him about going to the press about how he was being treated. He said that in Special Forces, one of the things they did was assasinate people in the U.S., making it look like suicide. He was afraid to go public about anything.
I had to share this with you:
Here is his website:
Black Light Power
http://www.blacklightpower.com/
Here is how he describes his company:
Blacklight Power – the inventor of a paradigm-shifting new primary source and a new field of hydrogen chemistry with broad commercial applications
Here is the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
renewable/0,2759,180749,00.html
Here's the Guardian's lead in:
Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head
· Scientist says device disproves quantum theory
· Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths
A friend and I have been following his site closely for the past few years. We would asked ourselves why the government would allow this man to continue with his work while they were more unkind other scientists in his field.
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/
obituaries/2004/EugeneMallove/
We agreed that the government lets him exist as long as he doesn't "go commercial" and threaten the global oil cartel.
Or until the government can buy the patent rights from him and turn it into a new type of energy monopoly for profit.
My friend said there was a yahoo discussion group that focused on the Black Light project.
One of the participants in the group was an employee who worked at one of the more obscure government security agencies.
This person said he was interested in "alternative energy" as a "hobby."
I heard that Cheney had installed geothermal heat in his new house. Is geothermal heat his new hobby? This would be a welcome change if you think of his other sadistic hobbies.
Imagine if all of us little people had access to free unlimited energy. What if we could grow our own food and medicinal herbs?
Who would need Big Pharma, the oil cartels or Big Aggie, all of whom are trying to poison us for profit.
We would be free of all the corporate fascists and neo-nazis who run the bloated Satanic behometh called the US federal government.
Last night I read your article on the Trickster, so when I read this article today, I just started to laugh.
Now doesn't this sound like the "same old, same old."
Dr Mills did 'the impossible' and the damage controllers and debunkers from the scientific establishment are rushing in to discredit him.
Look what he did. Shame on him!
> The problem is that according
> to the rules of quantum
> mechanics, the physics
> that governs the behaviour
> of atoms, the idea
> is theoretically impossible
Object lesson: Don't take those electrons or protons for granted. Perhaps they are tricksters.
> he has produced a new form
> of hydrogen, the simplest of
> all the atoms, with just
> a single proton circled by
> one electron.
You can never trust those sneaky hydrogen atoms. They defy us by disobeying "our laws" that mandate their behavior. How dare they do their "own thing!"
> In his "hydrino", the
> electron sits
> a little closer to the
> proton than normal, and
> the formation of the new
> atoms from traditional
> hydrogen releases huge
> amounts of energy.
Just as atomic particles appear to play tricks on us, they also offer possible solutions.
I have to constantly deconstruct and reconstruct my "world views" when things no longer make sense. Even now they don't make any sense, but I keep trying.
If nothing is what it appears to be in my limited context of reality, then why should I expect it to be any different at the sub-atomic or at the cosmic level.
Has anything really changed except my interpretation of it?
I've always imagined that "God" must have a really perverse sense of humor.
Again, the joke is played on us humans because we are so arrogant. We have no humility. We insist on seeing ourselves as being at the top of the "food chain."
Two points come to mind when I remind myself that I am just one tiny part of the puzzle:
1. Man can't exist without bacteria, but bacteria can exist without man.
2. The coackroach is a very ancient creature. It has an exo-skeleton that is said to be so resistant to radioactivity that it could survive a nuclear winter (when all else shall perish?)
And the "meek" shall inherit the earth ... again!
When I was a child, we sang our own verses of Sousa's "Stars and Stripes."
"Be kind to your friends in the swamp where the weather is very, very damp
"Be kind to your web-footed friends
for a duck may be somebody's
mother.
Change "duck" to "coackroach."
Anyone care to figure out the Masonic numerology in this one:
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Scientists' deaths are under the microscope
Alanna Mitchell, Simon Cooper And Carolyn Abraham - COMPILED BY ALANNA MITCHELL
Saturday, May 4, 2002
It's a tale only the best conspiracy theorist could dream up.
Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism.
Throw in a few Russian defectors, a few nervy U.S. biotech companies, a deranged assassin or two, a bit of Elvis, a couple of Satanists, a subtle hint of espionage, a big whack of imagination, and the plot is complete, if a bit reminiscent of James Bond.
The first three died in the space of just over a week in November. 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 Nov. 12 in a carjacking in the medical school's parking lot. Strangely enough, though, his body showed no signs of a beating. Doctors then began to suspect a stroke.
Just four days after Dr. Que fell unconscious came the mysterious disappearance of Don Wiley, 57, one of the foremost microbiologists in the United States. Dr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was an expert on how the immune system responds to viral attacks such as the classic doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.
He had just bought tickets to take his son to Graceland the following day. Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was later found in the Mississippi River. Forensic experts said he may have had a dizzy spell and have fallen off the bridge.
Just five days after that, the world-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector Valdimir Pasechnik, 64, fell dead. The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who also happened to be associated with Britain's spy agency, concluded he died of a stroke.
Dr. Pasechnik, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role in Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise missiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.
The next two deaths came four days apart in December. 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 several of her fellow pagans have been charged.
Dr. Schwartz was an expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, who worked at the Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon, Va.
Four days later, Nguyen Van Set, 44, died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen. Other scientists at the animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to affect smallpox.
Then in February, the Russian microbiologist Victor Korshunov, 56, an expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world, was bashed over the head near his home in Moscow. Five days later the British microbiologist Ian Langford, 40, was found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked from the waist down and wedged under a chair. He was an expert in environmental risks and disease.
Two weeks later, two prominent microbiologists died in San Francisco. Tanya Holzmayer, 46, a Russian who moved to the U.S. in 1989, focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine.
She was killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang (Matthew) Huang, 38, who shot her seven times when she opened the door to a pizza delivery. Then he shot himself.
The final two deaths came one day after the other in March. David Wynn-Williams, 55, a respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey, who studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer space, died in a freak road accident near his home in Cambridge, England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.
The following day, Steven Mostow, 63, known as Dr. Flu for his expertise in treating influenza, and a noted expert in bioterrorism, died when the airplane he was piloting crashed near Denver.
So what does any of it mean?
"Statistically, what are the chances?" wondered a prominent North American microbiologist reached last night at an international meeting of infectious-disease specialists in Chicago.
Janet Shoemaker, director of public and scientific affairs of the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C., pointed out yesterday that there are about 20,000 academic researchers in microbiology in the U.S. Still, not all of these are of the elevated calibre of those recently deceased.
She had a chilling, final thought. When microbiologists die in a lab, there's a way of taking note of the deaths and adding them up. When they die in freakish accidents outside the lab, nobody keeps track.
Suspicious deaths
The sudden and suspicious deaths of 11 of the world's leading microbiologists.
Who they were:
1. Nov. 12, 2001:
Benito Que was said to have been beaten in a Miami parking lot and died later.
2. Nov. 16, 2001:
Don C. Wiley went missing. Was found Dec. 20. Investigators said he got dizzy on a Memphis bridge and fell to his death in a river.
3. Nov. 21, 2001:
Vladimir Pasechnik, former high-level Russian microbiologist who defected in 1989 to the U.K. apparently died from a stroke.
4. Dec. 10, 2001:
Robert M. Schwartz was stabbed to death in Leesberg, Va. Three Satanists have been arrested.
5. Dec. 14, 2001:
Nguyen Van Set died in an airlock filled with nitrogen in his lab in Geelong, Australia.
6. Feb. 9, 2002:
Victor Korshunov had his head bashed in near his home in Moscow.
7. Feb. 14, 2002:
Ian Langford was found partially naked and wedged under a chair in Norwich, England.
8. 9. Feb. 28, 2002:
San Francisco resident Tanya Holzmayer was killed by a microbiologist colleague, Guyang Huang, who shot her as she took delivery of a pizza and then apparently shot himself.
10. March 24, 2002:
David Wynn-Williams died in a road accident near his home in Cambridge, England.
11. March 25, 2002:
Steven Mostow of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre, killed in a plane he was flying near Denver.
Someone I know is a scientist. He happened to have high-level experience in energy and also with defense against biological warfare. Multiple attempts were made on his life. He was poisoned while overseas (early 2001) but survived. An attempt was made on his life again (2002). Its not just random events or "conspiracy". [An American scientist.]
Another one.
Medical researcher Barbara Johnston was murdered in the UK.
She was stabbed 49 times. Police have no suspect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4663448.stm
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