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While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection,
many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts
of violence. Many are just plain murders.
If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with accurate information,
Thank you!
Peace, Mark
Marconi Scientists Mystery
In the 1980,s over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi
or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing
to be 'suicides.' The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified
Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected.
Judge for yourself...
March 1982 - Professor Keith Bowden, 46
-- Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University engaged
in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super computers and computer-controlled
aircraft.
-- Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of control
across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway line. Police maintained
he had been drinking but family and friends all denied the allegation.
-- Coroner's verdict: Accident.
April 1983 - Lt. Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
-- Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of Military Science.
-- Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without explanation.
Presumed dead.
March 1985 - Roger Hill, 49
-- Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
-- Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
November 19, 1985 - Jonathan Wash, 29
-- Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked at GEC and at British
Telecom,s secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room in Abidjan,
West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had expressed fears that
his life was in danger.
-- Coroner's verdict: Open.
August 4, 1986 - Vimal Dajibhai, 24
-- Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for testing
computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes at Marconi Underwater
Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
-- Circumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from Clifton Suspension
Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned a needle-sized puncture
wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed as being a result of
the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting a new job in the City
of London and friends had confirmed that there was no reason for him to commit
suicide. At the time of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.
-- Coroner's verdict: Open.
October 1986 - Arshad Sharif, 26
-- Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection of
submarines by satellite.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a ligature around his
neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his car with the
accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was complicated by several
issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed
suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in
a rooming house. He had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have
a bundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the police
were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the inquest and they
were never found. In addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house
worked at British Aerospace prior to working for Marconi, Sharif had also worked
at British Aerospace on guided weapons technology.
-- Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
January 1987 - Richard Pugh, 37
-- Expertise: MOD computer consultant and digital communications expert.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his flat in with his feet bound and
a plastic bag over his head. Rope was tied around his body, coiling four times
around his neck.
-- Coroner's verdict: Accident.
January 12, 1987: Dr. John Brittan, 52
-- Expertise: Scientist formerly engaged in top secret work at the Royal College
of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and later deployed in a research
department at the MOD.
-- Circumstance of Death: Death by carbon monoxide poisoning in his own garage,
shortly after returning from a trip to the US in connection with his work.
-- Coroner's verdict: Accident.
February 1987 - David Skeels, 43
--Expertise: Engineer with Marconi.
--Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his car with a hosepipe connected to
the exhaust.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
February 1987 - Victor Moore, 46
-- Expertise: Design Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died from an overdose.
-- Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
February 22, 1987 - Peter Peapell, 46
-- Expertise: Scientist at the Royal College of Military Science. He had been
working on testing titanium for its resistance to explosives and the use of
computer analysis of signals from metals.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found dead allegedly from carbon monoxide poisoning,
in his Oxfordshire garage. The circumstances of his death raised some elements
of doubt. His wife had found him on his back with his head parallel to the rear
car bumper and his mouth in line with the exhaust pipe, with the car engine
running. Police were apparently baffled as to how he could have manoeuvred into
the position in which he was found.
-- Coroner's verdict: Open.
March 30, 1987 - David Sands, 37
--Expertise: Senior scientist working for Easams of Camberley, Surrey, a sister
company to Marconi. Dr. John Brittan had also worked at Camberley.
--Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when he allegedly made a sudden U-turn
on a dual carriageway while on his way to work, crashing at high speed into
a disused cafeteria. He was found still wearing his seat belt and it was discovered
that the car had been carrying additional petrol cans. None of the 'normal'
reasons for a possible suicide could be found.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
April 1987 - George Kountis (age unknown)
-- Expertise: Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic.
-- Circumstance of Death: Drowned the same day as Shani Warren (see below) -
as the result of a car accident, his upturned car being found in the River Mersey,
Liverpool.
-- Coroner's verdict: Misadventure.
(Kountis, sister called for a fresh inquest as she thought 'things didn't add
up.')
April 10, 1987 - Shani Warren, 26
-- Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was
taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in) of water, not far from
the site of David Greenhalgh's death fall. Warren died exactly one week after
the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury to Greenhalgh. She was found
gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands
tied behind her back.
-- Coroner's verdict: Open.
(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope, then tied
her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on stiletto heels to drown
herself.)
April 10, 1987 - Stuart Gooding, 23
-- Expertise: Postgraduate research student at the Royal College of Military
Science.
-- Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash while on holiday in Cyprus. The death
occurred at the same time as college personnel were carrying out exercises on
Cyprus.
-- Coroner's verdict: Accident.
April 24, 1987 - Mark Wisner, 24
-- Expertise: Software engineer at the MOD.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found dead on in a house shared with two colleagues.
He was found with a plastic sack around his head and several feet of cling film
around his face. The method of death was almost identical to that of Richard
Pugh some three months earlier.
-- Coroner's verdict: Accident.
May 3, 1987 - Michael Baker, 22
-- Expertise: Digital communications expert working on a defence project at
Plessey; part-time member of Signals Corps SAS.
-- Circumstance of Death: Fatal accident owhen his car crashed through a barrier
near Poole in Dorset.
-- Coroner's verdict: Misadventure.
June 1987 - Frank Jennings, 60
-- Expertise: Electronic Weapons Engineer with Plessey.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found dead from a heart attack.
-- No inquest.
January 1988 - Russell Smith, 23
-- Expertise: Laboratory technician with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment
at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of a cliff fall at Boscastle in Cornwall.
-- Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
March 25, 1988 - Trevor Knight, 52
-- Expertise: Computer engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems in Stanmore,
Middlesex.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found dead at his home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire
at the wheel of his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust. A St.Alban,s
coroner said that Knight,s woman friend, Miss Narmada Thanki (who also worked
with him at Marconi) had found three suicide notes left by him which made clear
his intentions. Miss Thanki had mentioned that Knight disliked his work but
she did not detect any depression that would have driven him to suicide.
-- Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
August 1988 - Alistair Beckham, 50
-- Expertise: Software engineer with Plessey Defence Systems.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found dead after being electrocuted in his garden
shed with wires connected to his body.
-- Coroner's verdict: Open.
August 22, 1988 - Peter Ferry, 60
-- Expertise: Retired Army Brigadier and an Assistant Marketing Director with
Marconi.
-- Circumstance of Death: Found on 22nd or 23rd August 1988 electrocuted in
his company with flat electrical leads in his mouth.
-- Coroner's verdict: Open
September 1988 - Andrew Hall, 33
-- Expertise: Engineering Manager with British Aerospace.
-- Circumstance of Death: Carbon monoxide poisoning in a car with a hosepipe
connected to the exhaust.
-- Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
Above list compiled by Raymond A. Robinson in 'The Alien Intent'
(A Dire Warning)
http://www.geocities.com/orgonegal/marconi-scientists.html
(Note: link above is dead)
http://web.archive.org/web/20030208080844/
http://www.geocities.com/orgonegal/marconi-scientists.html
(Thanks Joe C. for the web archive link.)
1988 - Stanley Irving Sigal, 35
-- Expertise: Top AIDS researcher at Merck.
-- Circumstance of Death: In seat number 13B on Pan American Flight that was
shot down over Lockerbee Scotland.
http://web.syr.edu/~vpaf103/victims.htm
Date? - Dr. C. Bruton
-- Expertise: He had just produced a paper on a new strain of CJD. He was a
CJD specialist who was killed before his work was announced to the public.
-- Circumstance of Death: died in a car crash.
1994/95? - Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi
-- Expertise: Veterinary mycoplasma and had worked with various mycoplasmas
in the 1980s at Plum Island.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was killed in his native Iraq while he was changing
a flat tire and hit by a truck.
Source - Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
1996 - Tsunao Saitoh, 46
-- Expertise: A leading Alzheimer's researcher
-- Circumstance of Death: He and his 13 year-old daughter were killed in La
Jolla, California, in what a Reuters report described as a "very professionally
done" shooting. He was dead behind the wheel of the car, the side window
had been shot out, and the door was open. His daughter appeared to have tried
to run away and she was shot dead, also.
Dec 25, 1997 - Sidney Harshman, 67
-- Expertise: Professor of microbiology and immunology.
"He was the world's leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins,"
according to Conrad Wagner, professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt and a close
friend of Professor Harshman. "He also deeply cared for other people and
was always eager to help his students and colleagues."
-- Circumstance of Death: Complications of diabetes
July 10, 1998 - Elizabeth A. Rich, MD, 46
-- Expertise: An associate professor with tenure in the pulmonary division of
the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She
was also a member of the executive committee for the Center for AIDS Research
and directed the biosafety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the
handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents.
-- Circumstance of Death: Killed in a traffic accident while visiting family
in Tennessee
September 1998 - Jonathan Mann, 51
-- Expertise: Founding director of the World Health Organisation's global Aids
programme and founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most comprehensive Aids research
effort in Africa at the time, and in 1986 he joined the WHO to lead the global
response against Aids. He became director of WHO's global programme on Aids
which later became the UNAids programme. He then became director of the Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which was set up at Harvard School
of Public Health in 1993. He caused controversy earlier this year in the post
when he accused the US National Institutes of Health of violating human rights
by failing to act quickly on developing Aids vaccines.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died in the Swissair Flight 111 crash in Canada.
March 2000 - Larry C. Ford
-- Expertise: Served as a consultant to both the CIA and the chemical and biological-weapons
program of the South African Defense Forces, headed by Wouter Basson. His contributions
to Basson's program included lectures on converting ordinary items into lethal
biological weapons.
He provided samples of virulent, designer strains of cholera, anthrax, botulism,
plague, and malaria, as well as a bacteria he claimed had been mutated to be
"pigment specific" for the white minority government of South Africa.
http://www.edwardhumes.com/articles/medicine.shtml
-- Circumstance of Death: Died of a shotgun blast at his home in Irvine, Orange
County, California. His death was later ruled a suicide.
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/000055.html
April 15, 2000 - Walter W. Shervington, MD, 62
-- Expertise: An extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher about mental health
and AIDS in the African American community.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died of cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital.
July 16, 2000 - Mike Thomas, 35
-- Expertise: A microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died a few days after examining a sample taken from
a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and survived.
December 25, 2000 - Linda Reese, 52
--Expertise: Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.
--Circumstance of Death: Died three days after she studied a sample from Tricia
Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was a sophomore at Michigan State
University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days after she returned home for
the holidays.
May 7 2001 - Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz
-- Expertise: Expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His main
scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of action and biological
properties of staphylococcal toxins, and included the immunomodulatory properties
and experimental treatment of tumours by Propionibacterium.
November 2001 - Yaacov Matzner, 54
-- Expertise: Dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem
and chairman of the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusions, was
the son of Holocaust survivors. One of the world's experts on blood diseases
including familiar Mediterranean fever (FMF), Matzner conducted research that
led to a genetic test for FMF. He was working on cloning the gene connected
to FMF and investigating the normal physiological function of amyloid A, a protein
often found in high levels in people with blood cancer.
-- Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on
their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense
forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
November 2001 - Professor Amiram Eldor, 59
-- Expertise: Head of the haematology institute, Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital
and worked for years at Hadassah-University Hospital's haematology department
but left for his native Tel Aviv in 1993 to head the haematology institute at
Ichilov Hospital. He was an internationally known expert on blood clotting especially
in women who had repeated miscarriages and was a member of a team that identified
eight new anti-clotting agents in the saliva of leeches.
-- Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on
their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense
forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
November 6, 2001 - Jeffrey Paris Wall, 41
-- Expertise: He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also
specialized in patent and intellectual property.
-- Circumstance of Death: Mr. Walls body was found sprawled next to a three-story
parking structure near his office. He had studied at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Nov. 16, 2001 - Don C. Wiley, 57
-- Expertise: 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.
-- Circumstance of Death: Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis,
Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi River.
Nov. 21, 2001 - Vladimir Pasechnik, 64
-- Expertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector;
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.
-- Background: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in Britain, a laboratory
at Porton Down, the country´s chem-bio warfare defense establishment.
Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and
therapeutic treatment of anthrax".
-- Circumstance of Death: The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who also
happened to be associated with Britain´s spy agency, concluded he died
of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an inquest, in which
the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues who had worked with Pasechnik
said he was in good health.
Dec. 10, 2001 - Robert M. Schwartz, 57
-- Expertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, founding
member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director
of Research and Development at Virginia´s Center for Innovative Technology
in Herndon.
-- Circumstance of Death: 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.
Dec. 14, 2001 - Nguyen Van Set, 44
-- Expertise: 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.
-- Circumstance of Death: died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory
accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen.
January 2002 - Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski.
-- Expertise: Two microbiologists. Both were well known around the world and
members of the Russian Academy of Science.
-- Circumstance of Death: Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and Brushlinski
was killed in Moscow.
January 28, 2002 - David W. Barry, 58
-- Expertise: Scientist who codiscovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered
the first effective treatment for AIDS.
-- Circumstance of Death: unknown
Feb. 9, 2002 - Victor Korshunov, 56
-- Expertise: Expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world
-- Circumstance of Death: bashed over the head near his home in Moscow.
Feb. 14, 2002 - Ian Langford, 40
-- Expertise: expert in environmental risks and disease.
-- Circumstance of Death: found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked
from the waist down and wedged under a chair.
Feb. 28, 2002 - Tanya Holzmayer, 46
- -Expertise: 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.
-- Circumstance of Death: killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang (Matthew) Huang,
who shot her seven times when she opened the door to a pizza delivery. Then
he shot himself.
Feb. 28, 2002 - Guyang Huang, 38
-- Expertise: Microbiologist
-- Circumstance of Death: Apparently shot himself after shooting fellow microbiologist,
Tanya Holzmayer, seven times.
March 24, 2002 - David Wynn-Williams, 55
-- Expertise: Respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey, who
studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer space.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died in a freak road accident near his home in Cambridge,
England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.
March 25, 2002 - Steven Mostow, 63
-- Expertise: Known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating influenza,
and a noted expert in bioterrorism of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre.
-- Circumstance of Death: died when the airplane he was piloting crashed near
Denver.
August 05, 2002 - David R. Knibbs, PhD, 49
-- Expertise: Director of Electron Microscopy at Hartford Hospital and had a
doctorate in pathobiology from the University of Connecticut. He also served
as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford.
-- Circumstance of Death: He collapsed and died after an evening
run (one of his joys in life).
Nov. 12, 2002 - Benito Que, 52
-- Expertise: Expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami
Medical School
-- Circumstance of Death: Que left his laboratory after receiving a telephone
call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami
Medical School. He died without regaining consciousness. Police said he had
suffered a heart attack. His family insisted he had been in perfect health and
claimed four men attacked him. But, later, oddly, the family inquest returned
a verdict of death by natural causes.
April 2003 - Carlo Urbani, 46
-- Expertise: A dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist,
who did work of enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died in Bangkok from SARS (severe acute respiratory
syndrome) - the new disease that he had helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt
action, the epidemic was contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily
contact with SARS patients, he contracted the infection. On March 11, he was
admitted to a hospital in Bangkok and isolated. Less than three weeks later
he died.
June 24, 2003 - Dr. Leland Rickman of UCSD, 47
-- Expertise: An expert in infectious disease who helped the county prepare
to fight bioterrorism after Sept. 11.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was in the African nation of Lesotho with Dr. Chris
Mathews of UCSD, the director of the university's Owen Clinic for AIDS patients.
Dr. Rickman had complained of a headache and had gone to lie down. When he didn't
appear for dinner, Mathews checked on him and found him dead. A cause has not
yet been determined.
July 18, 2003 - Dr. David Kelly, 59
-- Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the Ministry
of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at
Porton Down and worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don
Wiley, 57.
-- Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract
with the U.S. Navy for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax"
-- Circumstance of Death: He was found dead after seemingly slashing his wrist
in a wooded area near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire.
Oct 11, 2003 - Michael Perich, 46
-- Expertise: LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West Nile virus.
Perich worked with the East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Control and Rodent Abatement
District to determine whether mosquitoes in the area carried West Nile.
-- Circumstance of Death: Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perich
of 5227 River Bend Blvd., Baton Rouge, crashed his Ford pickup truck about 4:30
a.m. Saturday, while heading west on Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish. Perich's
truck veered right off the highway about 3 miles east of Walker, flipped and
landed in rainwater, Burns said. Perich, who was wearing his seat belt, drowned.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, Burns said.
"Mike is one of the few entomologists with the experience to go out and
save lives today."
~ Robert A. Wirtz, chief of entomology at the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
November 22, 2003 - Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45
-- Expertise: He was studying the virus that was plaguing cruise ships until
he was killed by a mysterious white van in November of 2003
-- Circumstance of Death: Burghoff was walking on a sidewalk along the 1600
block of South Braeswood when a white van jumped the curb and hit him at 1:35
p.m. Thursday, police said. The van then sped away. Burghoff died an hour later
at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
December 18, 2003 - Robert Aranosia, 61
-- Expertise: Oakland County deputy medical examiner
-- Circumstance of Death: He was driving south on I-75 when his pickup truck
went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled
over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the
vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes.
January 6, 2004 - Dr Richard Stevens, 54
-- Expertise: A haematologist. (Haematologists analyse the cellular composition
of blood and blood producing tissues eg bone marrow)
-- Circumstance of Death: Disappeared after arriving for work on 21 July, 2003.
A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed himself because
he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner has ruled.
January 23 2004 - Dr. Robert E. Shope, 74
-- Expertise: One of the world's top experts on viruses and infectious illnesses
who was the principal author of a highly publicized 1992 report by the National
Academy of Sciences warning of the possible emergence of new and unsettling
infectious illnesses. He had accumulated his own collection of virus samples
gathered from all over the world and worked on a Defense Department project
to develop antidotes to viral agents that terrorists might use.
-- Circumstance of Death: The cause was complications of a lung transplant he
received in December, said his daughter Deborah Shope of Galveston. Dr. Shope
had pulmonary fibrosis, a disease of unknown origin that scars the lungs.
January 24 2004 - Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62
-- Expertise: One of the world's leading microbiologists and an expert in developing
and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment facilities. He was at the forefront
in the early studies of Lassa fever, the Ebola virus and mad cow disease while
at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently, both Dr.
Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston
lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of
the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well
as bioweaponized ones.
March 13, 2004 - Vadake Srinivasan
-- Expertise: Was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists
in academia, and held two doctorate degrees.
-- Circumstance of Death: He died in a mysterious single car accident in Baton
Rouge, La. Crashed car into a guard rail and ruled a stroke.
April 12, 2004 - Ilsley Ingram, 84
-- Expertise: Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and
the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St.
Thomas Hospital in London.
-- Circumstance of Death: unknown
May 5, 2004 - William T. McGuire, 39
-- Expertise: NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct
professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
-- Circumstance of Death: His dismembered body was found floating in three suitcases
in the Chesapeake Bay.
May 14, 2004 - Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56
-- Expertise: Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion. He
had just published an open letter outlining the results of and reasons for his
last 15 years in the field of new energy research. Dr. Mallove was convinced
it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a free energy
device.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died after being beaten to death during an alleged
robbery.
May 25, 2004 - Antonina Presnyakova
-- Expertise: Former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia --Circumstance
of Death: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with
Ebola.
June 22, 2004 - Thomas Gold, 84
--Expertise: He was the founder, and for twenty years the director, of the Cornell
Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, where he was a close colleague of
Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan. Gold was famous for his provocative,
controversial, and sometimes outrageous theories. Gold,s theory of the deep
hot biosphere holds important ramifications for the possibility of life on other
planets, including seemingly inhospitable planets within our own solar system.
Gold sparked controversy in 1955 when he suggested that the Moon's surface is
covered with a fine rock powder.
--Circumstance of Death: Died of heart failure.
June 24, 2004 - Dr. Assefa Tulu, 45
-- Expertise: Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served for five
years as the county's lone epidemiologist. He was charged with tracking the
health of the county, including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS
and measles. He also designed a system for detecting a bioterrorism attack involving
viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address major
health concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of the
past few years, and worked with the media to inform the public.
-- Circumstance of Death: Dallas County's chief epidemiologist, was found at
his desk, died of a
stroke.
June 27, 2004 - Dr Paul Norman, Of Salisbury, Wiltshire, 52
-- Expertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defence
at the Ministry of Defence's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. He travelled
the world lecturing on the subject of weapons of mass destruction.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died when the Cessna 206 crashed shortly after taking
off from Dunkeswell Airfield on Sunday. A father and daughter also died at the
scene, and 44-year-old parachute instructor and Royal Marine Major Mike Wills
later died in the hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3860995.stm
June 29, 2004 - John Mullen, 67
--Expertise: A nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas.
--Circumstance of Death: Died from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic.
(Note: McDonnell Douglas did not exist in 2004. It merged with Boeing in 1997.)
July 1, 2004 - Edward Hoffman, 62
-- Expertise: Aside from his role as a professor, Hoffman held leadership positions
within the UCLA medical community. Worked to develop the first human PET scanner
in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.
-- Circumstance of Death: unknown
July 2, 2004 - Larry Bustard, 53
-- Expertise: A Sandia scientist who helped develop a foam spray to clean up
congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in 2001. Worked
at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. His team came up with a new
technology used against biological and chemical agents.
-- Circumstance of Death: unknown
July 6, 2004 - Stephen Tabet, 42
-- Expertise: An associate professor and epidemiologist at the University of
Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked with HIV patients
in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died of an unknown illness
July 21, 2004 - Dr Bassem al-Mudares
-- Expertise: He was a phD chemist
-- Circumstance of Death: His mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra,
Iraq and had been tortured before being killed.
July 21, 2004: Dr. John Badwey 54
-- Expertise: Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed disposal of
sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Biochemist at Harvard Medical
School specializing in infectious diseases.
-- Circumstance of Death: Suddenly developed pneumonia like symptoms then died
in two weeks.
August 12, 2004 - Professor John Clark
-- Expertise: Head of the science lab which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark
led the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, one of the world,s leading animal biotechnology
research centres. He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep
that earned the institute worldwide fame.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was found hanging in his holiday home.
September 5, 2004 - Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani
-- Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist. He was a practising nuclear physicist
since 1984.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
October 13, 2004 - Matthew Allison, 32
-- Expertise: (please help provide information - thank you MJH)
Fatal explosion of a car parked at an Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store was
no accident, Local 6 News has learned. Found inside a burned car. Witnesses
said the man left the store at about 11 p.m. and entered his Ford Taurus car
when it exploded. Investigators said they found a Duraflame log and propane
canisters on the front passenger's seat.
November 2, 2004 - John R. La Montagne
-- Expertise: Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson. Was
NIAID Deputy Director.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died while in Mexico, no cause stated.
December 21, 2004 - Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher
-- Expertise - Iraqi nuclear scientist
-- Circumstance of Death: He was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen.
He was on his way to work at Diyala University when armed men opened fire on
his car as it was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher,
who was a professor at the local university, was removed from the submerged
car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was pronounced dead.
December 29, 2004 - Tom Thorne and Beth Williams
-- Expertise: Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians
who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis
-- Circumstance of Death: They were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S.
287 in northern Colorado.
January 7, 2005 - Jeong H. Im, 72
-- Expertise: A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Primarily a protein chemist.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was stabbed several times and his body was found
in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking
garage.
January 24, 2005 - Roger L. Blair, 54
-- Expertise: He worked for the Kennedy Space center as a micro-biologist and
most recently for Wuesthoff Medical Center as a Medical Laboratory Technician.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died suddenly
April 5, 2005 - Barbara Kalow, 45
-- Expertise: A FEDERAL government veterinary scientist and was a researcher
before being hired by the feds in 1992 as a meat inspector.
She then moved to veterinary biologics and was promoted to the science branch
to advise on animal health issues.
-- Circumstance of Death: She died of asphyxiation after being smothered by
a pillow in her hotel room while on vacation in Arizona.
Aril 18, 2005 - Douglas Passaro, 43
-- Expertise: He was an associate professor of epidemiology at the University
of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and had been an outbreak investigator
with the Epidemic Intelligence Service for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention before completing an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Stanford University
in 2001.
-- Circumstance of Death: Died suddenly at his Oak Park home.
May 8, 2005 - David Banks, 55
-- Expertise: He was the principal scientist with Biosecurity Australia and
was involved in containing pest and disease threats. His primary mission was
protecting livestock and plants in the country, and keeping diseases from crossing
into Australia. He was an expert in the propagation of diseases by insect vectors,
among other things.
-- Circumstance of Death: He died along with 15 other people when the commuter
plane he was traveling in went down in Queensland, Australia.
May 20, 2005 - Robert J. Lull, 64
-- Expertise: A prominent physician at San Francisco General Hospital who once
headed the San Francisco Medical Society. Lull focused on improvements in diagnosis
and treatment of thyroid cancer. Lull was a highly revered expert in the field
of nuclear medicine, a specialty that performs diagnostic screens such as bone
scans for cancer patients. Last year, Lull lectured in San Francisco about the
threat of nuclear terrorism.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was found stabbed to death inside the doorway of
his Diamond Heights home.
June 7, 2005 - Leonid Strachunsky (age unknown)
-- Expertise: World Health Organization expert and director of the Anti-Microbe
Therapy Research Institute who specialized in creating microbes resistant to
biological weapons, to the hepatitis outbreak.
-- Circumstance of Death: He was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where
he came from Smolensk en route to the United States. He had been hit on the
head with a champagne bottle, and some of his possessions were missing.
MOSSAD (Israels Secret Service) Liquidates 310 Iraqi Scientists
Mathaba.net
10-31-4
More than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of
Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003,
a seminar has found.
The Iraqi ambassador in Cairo, Ahmad al-Iraqi, accused Israel of sending to
Iraq immediately after the US invasion 'a commando unit' charged with the killing
of Iraqi scientists.
"Israel has played a prominent role in liquidating Iraqi scientists. The
campaign is part of a Zionist plan to kill Arab and Muslim scientists working
in applied research which Israel sees as threatening its interests," al-Iraqi
said.
http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=80029
Thanks to Steve Quayle
http://www.stevequayle.com/C2C.index.dead.scientist.html
Thanks to the HAL TURNER SHOW
http://www.halturnershow.com/DeadBioExperts.html
Thanks to Patricia Doyle and to all of those who sent numerous emails to help
correct this file and a special thanks to the members of my forum who inspired
me to compile it all.
Research file: Started Nov 28 2003
http://www.puppstheories.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=91
DEAD SCIENTISTS SUMMARY
http://www.puppstheories.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4157
Mark J. Harper
June 16, 2005
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