List of Dead Scientists working in bio-labs level 4 and governments who used them for speical cases
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Died 2008
#83 & 84Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23. Died July 3, after being
bound, gagged, stabbed and set alight. Laurent, a student in the proteins
that cause infectious disease, had been stabbed 196 times with half of them
being administered to his back after he was dead. Gabriel, who hoped to
become an expert in ecofriendly fuels, suffered 47 separate injuries.
Died 2007
#82: Yongsheng Li, age 29. Died: sometime after 4 p.m. on March 10, when he
was last seen as a result of unknown causes. He was found in a pond between
the Women's Sports Complex and State Botanical Gardens on South Milledge
Avenue Sunday and had been missing 16 days. Li was a doctoral student from
China who studied receptor cells in Regents Professor David Puett's
biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory.
#81: Dr. Mario Alberto Vargas Olvera, age 52. Died: Oct. 6, 2007 as a
result of several blunt-force injuries to his head and neck. Ruled as
murder. Found in his home. He was a nationally and internationally
recognized biologist.
Died 2006
#80: Lee Jong-woo, age 61. Died: May 22, 2006 after suffering a blood clot
on the brain. Lee was spearheading the organization's fight against global
threats from bird flu, AIDS and other infectious diseases. WHO
director-general since 2003, Lee was his country's top international
official. The affable South Korean, who liked to lighten his press
conferences with jokes, was a keen sportsman with no history of ill-health,
according to officials.
Died 2005
#79: Leonid Strachunsky. Died: June 8, 2005 after being hit on the head
with a champagne bottle. Strachunsky specialized in creating microbes
resistant to biological weapons. Strachunsky was found dead in his hotel
room in Moscow, where hed come from Smolensk en route to the United States.
Investigators are looking for a connection between the murder of this
leading bio weapons researcher and the hepatitis outbreak in Tver, Russia.
#78: Robert J. Lull, age 66. Died: May 19, 2005 of multiple stab wounds.
Despite his missing car and apparent credit card theft, homicide Inspector
Holly Pera said investigators aren't convinced that robbery was the sole
motive for Lull's killing. She said a robber would typically have taken more
valuables from Lull's home than what the killer left with. Lull had been
chief of nuclear medicine at San Francisco General Hospital since 1990 and
served as a radiology professor at UCSF. He was past president of the
American College of Nuclear Physicians and the San Francisco Medical Society
and served as editor of the medical society's journal, San Francisco
Medicine, from 1997 to 1999. Lee Lull said her former husband was a
proponent of nuclear power and loved to debate his political positions with
others.
#77: Todd Kauppila, age 41. Died: May 8, 2005 of hemorrhagic pancreatitis
at the Los Alamos hospital, according to the state medical examiner's
office. Picture of him was not available to due secret nature of his work.
This is his funeral picture. His death came two days after Kauppila
publicly rejoiced over news that the lab's director was leaving. Kauppila
was fired by director Pete Nanos on Sept. 23, 2004 following a security
scandal. Kauppila said he was fired because he did not immediately return
from a family vacation during a lab investigation into two classified
computer disks that were thought to be missing. The apparent security breach
forced Nanos to shut down the lab for several weeks. Kauppila claimed he was
made a scapegoat over the disks, which investigators concluded never
existed. The mistake was blamed on a clerical error. After he was fired,
Kauppila accepted a job as a contractor at Bechtel Nevada Corp., a research
company that works with Los Alamos and other national laboratories. He was
also working on a new Scatter Reduction Grids in Megavolt Radiography
focused on metal plates or crossed grids to act to stop the scattered
radiation while allowing the unscattered or direct rays to pass through with
other scientists: Scott Watson (LANL, DX-3), Chuck Lebeda (LANL, XTA), Alan
Tubb (LANL, DX-8), and Mike Appleby (Tecomet Thermo Electron Corp.)
#76: David Banks, age 55. Died: May 8, 2005. Banks, based in North
Queensland, died in an airplane crash, along with 14 others. He was known as
an Agro Genius inventing the mosquito trap used for cattle. Banks was the
principal scientist with quarantine authority, Biosecurity Australia, and
heavily involved in protecting Australians from unwanted diseases and pests.
Most of Dr Banks' work involved preventing potentially devastating diseases
making their way into Australia. He had been through Indonesia looking at
the potential for foot and mouth disease to spread through the archipelago
and into Australia. Other diseases he had fought to keep out of Australian
livestock herds and fruit orchards include classical swine fever, Nipah
virus and Japanese encephalitis.
#75: Dr. Douglas James Passaro, age 43. Died April 18, 2005 from unknown
cause in Oak Park, Illinois. Dr. Passaro was a brilliant epidemiologist who
wanted to unlock the secrets of a spiral-shaped bacteria that causes stomach
disease. He was a professor who challenged his students with real-life
exercises in bioterrorism. He was married to Dr. Sherry Nordstrom..
#74: Geetha Angara, age 43. Died: February 8, 2005. This formerly missing
chemist was found in a Totowa, New Jersey water treatment plant's tank.
Angara, 43, of Holmdel, was last seen on the night of Feb. 8 doing water
quality tests at the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant in Totowa, where
she worked for 12 years. Divers found her body in a 35-foot-deep sump
opening at the bottom of one of the emptied tanks. Investigators are
treating Angara's death as a possible homicide. Angara, a senior chemist
with a doctorate from New York University, was married and mother of three.
#73: Jeong H. Im, age 72. Died: January 7, 2005. Korean Jeong H. Im, died
of multiple stab wounds to the chest before firefighters found in his body
in the trunk of a burning car on the third level of the Maryland Avenue
Garage. A retired research assistant professor at the University of
Missouri - Columbia and primarily a protein chemist, MUPD with the
assistance of the Columbia Police Department and Columbia Fire Department
are conducting a death investigation of the incident. A "person of interest"
described as a male 6'-6'2" wearing some type of mask possible a painters
mask or drywall type mask was seen in the area of the Maryland Avenue
Garage. Dr. Im was primarily a protein chemist and he was a researcher in
the field.
Died in 2004
#72: Darwin Kenneth Vest, born April 22, 1951, was an internationally
renowned entomologist, expert on hobo spiders and other poisonous spiders
and snakes. Darwin disappeared in the early morning hours of June 3, 1999
while walking in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho (USA). The family believes foul
play was involved in his disappearance. A celebration of Darwin's life was
held in Idaho Falls and Moscow on the one-year anniversary of his
disappearance. The services included displays of Darwin's work and thank you
letters from school children and teachers. Memories of Darwin were shared by
at least a dozen speakers from around the world and concluded with the
placing of roses and a memorial wreath in the Snake River. A candlelight
vigil was also held that evening on the banks of the Snake River.
Darwin was declared legally dead the first week of March 2004 and now the
family is in the process of obtaining restraining orders against several
companies who saw fit to use his name and photos without permission. His
brother David is legal conservator of the estate and his sister Rebecca is
handling issues related to Eagle Rock Research and ongoing research
projects.
Media help in locating Darwin is welcome. Continuing efforts to solve this
mystery include recent DNA sampling. Stories about his disappearance
continue to appear throughout the world. Issues surrounding missing adult
investigations have received new attention following the tragedies of 911.
#s70-71: Tom Thorne, age 64; Beth Williams, age 53; Died: December 29,
2004. Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who
were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis
were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
#69: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher. Died: December 21, 2004. Iraqi nuclear
scientist was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown gunmen. He was on his
way to work at Diyala University when armed men opened fire on his car as it
was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. The vehicle
swerved off the bridge and fell into the Khrisan river. Al-Daher, who was a
professor at the local university, was removed from the submerged car and
rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was pronounced dead.
#68: John R. La Montagne, age 61. Died: November 2, 2004. Died while in
Mexico, no cause stated, later disclosed as pulmonary embolism. PhD, Head
of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy
Director. Expert in AIDS Program work and Microbiology and Infectious
Diseases.
#67: Matthew Allison, age 32. Died: October 13, 2004. Fatal explosion of a
car parked at an Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store. It 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. Allison had a college degree in
molecular biology and biotechnology.
#66: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani, age 40. Died: September 5, 2004:
Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. He was
a practicing nuclear physicist since 1984.
#65: Professor John Clark, Age 52, Died: August 12, 2004. Found hanged in
his holiday home. An expert in animal science and biotechnology where he
developed techniques for the genetic modification of livestock; this work
paved the way for the birth, in 1996, of Dolly the sheep, the first animal
to have been cloned from an adult. 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 centers. He played a
crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute
worldwide fame. He was put in charge of a project to produce human proteins
(which could be used in the treatment of human diseases) in sheep's milk.
Clark and his team focused their study on the production of the
alpha-I-antitryps in protein, which is used for treatment of cystic
fibrosis. Prof Clark also founded three spin-out firms from Roslin - PPL
Therapeutics, Rosgen and Roslin BioMed.
#64: Dr. John Badwey, age 54. Died: July 21, 2004. Scientist and
accidental politician when he opposed disposal of sewage waste program of
exposing humans to sludge. Suddenly developed pneumonia like symptoms then
died in two weeks. Biochemist at Harvard Medical School specializing in
infectious diseases.
#63: Dr. Bassem al-Mudares. Died: July 21, 2004. Mutilated body was found
in the city of Samarra, Iraq*. He was a Phd. chemist and had been tortured
before being killed. He was a drug company worker who had a chemistry
doctorate.
#62: Professor Stephen Tabet, age 42. Died on July 6, 2004 from an unknown
illness. He was 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
#61: Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53. Died July 2, 2004 from unknown causes. He
was a Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam
spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax
scare in 2001. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. As
an expert in bioterrorism, his team came up with a new technology used
against biological and chemical agents.
#60: Edward Hoffman, age 62. Died July 1, 2004 from unknown causes. Hoffman
was a professor and a scientist who also held leadership positions within
the UCLA medical community. He worked to develop the first human PET scanner
in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.
#59: John Mullen, age 67. Died: June 29, 2004. A Nuclear physicist
poisoned with a huge dose of arsenic. A nuclear research scientist with
McDonnell Douglas. Police investigating will not say how Mullen was exposed
to the arsenic or where it came from. At the time of his death he was doing
contract work for Boeing.
#58: Dr. Paul Norman, age 52. Died: June 27, 2004. From Salisbury
Wiltshire. Killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed
in Devon. Expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world
lecturing on defending against the scourge of weapons of mass destruction.
He was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was
the chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of
Defense's laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined
by officials from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of
the aircraft was removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough.
#57: Dr. Assefa Tulu, age 45. Died: June 24, 2004. Dr. Tulu joined the
health department in 1997 and served for five years as the county's lone
epidemiologist. He was charged with trackcing 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. Found face down,
dead in his office. The Dallas County Epidemiologist died of a hemorrhagic
stroke.
#56: Thomas Gold, age 84. Died: June 22, 2004. Austrian born Thomas Gold
famous over the years for a variety of bold theories that flout conventional
wisdom and reported in his 1998 book, "The Deep Hot Biosphere," the idea
challenges the accepted wisdom of how oil and natural gas are formed and,
along the way, proposes a new theory of the beginnings of life on Earth and
potentially on other planets. Long term battle with heart failure. 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. He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy
at Cornell University and was the founder (and for 20 years director) of
Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. He was also involved in
air accident investigations.
#55: Antonina Presnyakova, age 46. Died: May 25, 2004. A Russian
scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia died
after an accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and officials
said the accident had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the State
Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in
Soviet times specialized in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons.
Vector has been a leading recipient of aid in an American program.
#54: Dr. Eugene Mallove, age 56. Died: May 14, 2004. Autopsy confirmed
Mallove died as a result of several blunt-force injuries to his head and
neck. Ruled as murder. Found at the end of his driveway. Alt. Energy Expert
who was working on viable energy alternative program and announcement.
Norwich Free Academy graduate.Beaten to death during an alleged robbery.
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.
#53: William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004, last seen late April
2004. Body found in three suitcases floating in Chesapeake Bay. He was NJ
University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at
the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He emerged as one of the
world's leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing
multiple levels of biocontainment facilities.
#52: Ilsley Ingram, age 84. Died on April 12, 2004 from unknown causes.
Ingram was Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and
the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St.
Thomas Hospital in London. Although his age is most likely the reason for
his death, why wasn't this confirmed by the family in the news media?
#51: Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly, Died: April 2004. This distinguished Iraqi
chemistry professor died in American custody from a sudden hit to the back
of his head caused by blunt trauma. It was uncertain exactly how he died,
but someone had hit him from behind, possibly with a bar or a pistol. His
battered corpse turned up at Baghdad's morgue and the cause of death was
initially recorded as "brainstem compression". It was discovered that US
doctors had made a 20cm incision in his skull.
#50: Vadake Srinivasan, Died: March 13, 2004. Microbiologist crashed car
into guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. Death was ruled a stroke. He was
originally from India, was one of the most-accomplished and respected
industrial biologists in academia, and held two doctorate degrees.
#49: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62. Died: January 24, 2004. Died of
massive heart attack. Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class. It
is interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it "gave out". 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.
#48: Robert Shope, age 74. Died: January 23, 2004. Virus Expert Who
Warned of Epidemics, Dies died of lung transplant complications. Later
purported to have died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis which can be caused
by either environmental stimulus or a VIRUS. It would not be hard to
administer a drug that would cause Dr. Shope's lung transplant to either be
rejected or to cause complications from the transplant. Dr. Shope led the
group of scientists who had an 11 MILLION dollar fed grant to ensure the new
lab would keep in the nasty bugs. Dr. Shope also met with and worked with
Dr. Mike Kiley on the UTMB Galveston lab upgrade to BSL 4. When the upgrade
would be complete the lab will host the most hazardous pathogens known to
man especially tropical and emerging diseases as well as bioweapons.
#47: Dr Richard Stevens, age 54. Died: January 6, 2004. He had 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. He was a hematologist.
(hematologists analyze the cellular composition of blood and blood producing
tissues e.g. bone marrow).
Died 2003
#46: Robert Aranosia, age 61. Died: December 18, 2003. While driving south
on I-75 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. He was the Oakland County deputy medical examiner.
#45: Robert Leslie Burghoff, age 45. Died: November 20, 2003. Scientist.
Killed by a hit and run driver that jumped the curb and ploughed into him in
the 1600 block of South Braeswood, Texas. The driver was described as a
short Hispanic man in his 50s with a slightly rounded face. He was studying
the virus plaguing cruise ships.
#44: Michael Perich, age 46. Died: October 11, 2003. Died in one-vehicle
car accident. The LSU West Nile research scientist was wearing his seat belt
and drowned. He was LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West
Nile virus. Perich, who was known as one of the country's experts on
vector-borne diseases, had most recently led a crusade to keep down the
effects of West Nile virus and to get many of the Louisiana's parishes to
work toward forming mosquito control districts.
#43: David Kelly, age 59. Died: July 18, 2003. British biological weapons
expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while walking near his home.
Kelly was the Ministry of Defense's chief scientific officer and senior
adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the
Foreign Office's non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on
biological weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom)
from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in
his field, not only in this country, but in the world.
#42: Dr. Leland Rickman, age 47. Died: June 24, 2003. Rickman died
while on a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country bordered on all
sides by South Africa. UC San Diego expert on infectious diseases and, since
September 11, 2001 a consultant on bioterrorism. He had complained of a
headache, but the cause of death was not immediately known. The physician
had been working in Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews, director of the UC San
Diego Medical Center's Owen Clinic, teaching African medical personnel about
the prevention and treatment of AIDS. Rickman, the incoming president of the
Infectious Disease Assn. of California, was a multidisciplinary professor
and practitioner with expertise in infectious diseases, internal medicine,
epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic utilization.
#41: 'Dr. Roger' Died: Summer 2003. 'Roger' was pseudonym for this genetics
scientist. He was 17 and lived in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when the
unexplained object crashed. He told a woman he worked with in 1977 named
'Kate' while employed by the Navy, who he helped to clean up the crash site
of the 1947 UFO. He subsequently went to work for the government at this
young age and ended up a geneticist working in China Lake for the Navy.
Although he lived in fear and hiding soon after he told his story to Kate,
he retired in late 1990s or early 2000's and she saw him again once in early
2002 in San Diego. He told her she was in danger to talk to him and he left
the store. In 2003 she received a phone call from his 'friend' who said he
had been executed in his retirement home in Connecticut. The body had been
removed by a black government looking vehicle. The home had been cleaned up
and the body removed without any public notices of his death or existence.
Many disfigured and abnormal animals were found in the desert near Groom
Lake during his time there and after. Kate thought he might have been doing
this gruesome experimental work.
#40: Carlo Urbani, age 46. Died: in April 2003 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. He was a
dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work
of enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
Died 2002
#39: Roman Kuzmin. Died December 2002. 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. He was studying to be an orthopedic
surgeon. Doctors who worked with Roman Kuzmin at Waterbury Hospital said
they were stunned to hear of his death Sunday evening and many couldn't
believe the circumstances. 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."
#38B: Dr. David R. Knibbs, age 49. Died: August 5, 2002. Respected
pathobiologist specializing in electron microscopy.
#38: Steven Mostow, age 63. Died: March 25, 2002. One of the country's
leading infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was associate dean
at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane
crash near Centennial Airport. He was known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise
in treating influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of the
country's leading infectious disease experts.
#37: Dr. David Wynn-Williams, age 55. Died: March 24, 2002. Hit by a car
while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an astrobiologist
with the Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames Research Center.
He was studying the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental
extremes, including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global warming.
s#35-36: Tanya Holzmayer, age 46, Died: February 28, 2002: Two dead
microbiologists in San Francisco. While taking delivery of a pizza, Tanya
Holzmayer was shot and killed by a colleague, Guyang "Mathew" Huang, 38, who
then apparently shot himself. Holzmayer moved to the US from Russia in 1989.
Her research focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could
be affected best by medicine. Holzmayer was focusing on helping create new
drugs that interfere with replication of the virus that causes AIDS. One
year earlier, Holzmayer obeyed senior management orders to fire Huang. Huang
appeared from behind the deliveryman. He shot Holzmayer several times at
close range in the chest and head. As Holzmayer fell in her doorway, Huang
ran to a Ford Explorer and drove away. Less than an hour after the shooting,
Huang called his wife, according to Foster City Police Capt. Craig Courtin.
He told her about the shooting and that he was going to kill himself, then
he hung up. Huang's wife called the emergency services and Foster City
police used search dogs to comb the area. They ran into a jogger who had
seen Huang's body lying off the walkway that locals call "The Levee." He had
fired a single bullet into his head.
#34: Dr. Ian Langford, age 40, Died: February 12, 2002. Found dead at his
blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home A Russian who was a Senior
Research Associate in CSERGE, UK. He was a leading university research
scientist working on Global Environment, specializing in links between human
health and the environment risk, was. Specialist in leukemia and infections.
#33: Dr. Vladamir "Victor" Korshunov, age 56. Died: February 9, 2002.
Found dead on a Moscow street. Head was bashed in. Korshunov was head of
the microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He
was found dead in the entrance to his home with a head injury. On Feb. 9 the
Russian newspaper Pravda reported that Korshunov had probably invented a
vaccine protecting from any biological arm.
#32: David W. Barry, age 58, Died: January 28, 2002. Scientist who
co-discovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective
treatment for AIDS. Circumstance of Death are unknown.
#31: Dr. Ivan Glebov. Died: January 2002. Russian Microbiologist. Glebov
died as the result of a bandit attack. Well known around the world and
members of the Russian Academy of Science.
#30: Dr. Alexi Brushlinski. Died: January 2002. Russian Microbiologist.
Murdered in Moscow from bandit attack. Well known around the world and
members of the Russian Academy of Science.
Died 2001
#29 Dr. Benito Que, age 52. Found: November 12, 2001. Died: December 6,
2001. Found Comatose from what was called a mugging. Died later in
hospital. Found in the street near the laboratory where he worked at the
University of Miami Medical School. Among Dr. Que's friends and family there
is firm belief that Dr. Que was attacked by four men, at least one of whom
had a baseball bat. Dr. Que's death has now been officially ruled "natural",
caused by cardiac arrest. He was a cell biologist, involved in research on
aids, oncology research in the hematology department.
#28: Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik, age 64. Died: December 23, 2001. Found dead in
Wiltshire, England, a village near his home. Two different dates have been
reported: November 21 and December 23. Death ruled stroke. He had
defected from Russia to UK. He had been the #1 scientist in the FSU's
bioweapons program. It was thought he was involved with exhuming the bodies
of the 10 London victims of the 1919 Type A flu epidemic. Pasechnik died six
weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. On November 23, 2001,
Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as having occurred two
days earlier. Pasechnik's death was made in the United States by Dr.
Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a
stroke. Dr. Davis was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr.
Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Pasechnik was heavily involved in
DNA sequencing research. He had just founded a company like three other
microbiologists working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics.
Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik was the boss of William C. Patrick III who holds 5
patents on the militarized anthrax used by the United States. Patrick is
now a private biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick
developed the process by which anthrax spores could be concentrated at the
level of one trillion spores per gram. No other country has been able to get
concentrations above 500 billion per gram. The anthrax that was sent around
the eastern United States last fall was concentrated at one trillion spores
per gram.
#27: Dr. Don Wiley, age 57. Vanished: December 16, 2001. Molecular
Biologist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, top
Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found on the
Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was heavily involved in
research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on November
16, leaving the St. Jude's Children's Research Advisory Dinner at The
Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed
no signs of intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him.
Body found floating one month later. 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. On January 14, 2002 (almost two months later) Shelby County
Medical Examiner O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Dr.
Wiley's death to be "accidental"; the result of massive injuries suffered in
a fall from the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith said there were paint marks
on Wiley's rental car similar to the paint used on construction signs on the
bridge, and that the car's right front hubcap was missing. There has been no
report as to which construction signs Dr. Wiley hit.
#26: Dr. Set Van Nguyen, age 44. Died: December 14, 2001. Found dead in
the airlock entrance to the walk-in refrigerator in the laboratory he worked
at in Victoria State, Australia. The room was full of deadly gas which had
leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Room was vented. Working on
a vaccine to protect against biological weapons, or a weapon itself. In
January, 2001, the magazine Nature published information that two
scientists, Dr. Ron Jackson and Dr. Ian Ramshaw, using genetic manipulation
and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a
cousin of smallpox and Dr. Nguyen had worked for 15 years at the same
Australian facility. 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.
#25: Dr. David Schwartz , age 57. Died: December 10, 2001. Murdered by
stabbing with what appeared to be a sword in rural home Loudon County,
Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess,
and three of her fellow pagans have been charged. He was extremely well
respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.
Three teens that were into the occult were charged with murder in the
slashing death.
#s22-24: Avishai Berkman, age 50. (no photo)
Amiramp Eldor, age 59 Yaacov Matzner, age 54
All Died: November 24, 2001. Another airplane crash kills 3 scientists. At
about the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding
the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by
terrorists; including the head of the Hematology department at Israel's
Ichilov Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health
Department and Hebrew University School of Medicine. World experts in
hematology and blood clotting. Five microbiologists in this list of the
first eight people that died mysteriously in airplane crashes worked on
cutting edge microbiology research; and, four of the five were doing
virtually identical research; research that has global political and
financial significance.
#21: Jeffrey Paris Wall, age 41. Died: November 6, 2001. Body was found
sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. Mr. Wall
had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a
biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in
patent and intellectual property.
#16-#20: Five Unnamed Microbiologists. Died: October 4, 2001. Four of Five
unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down by a missile near
the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to Russia;
business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in medical research or
public health. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many
as four or five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and
Novosibirsk are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk
is known as the scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research
facilities there, and 13 full universities for a population of only 2.5
million people.
#15: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz, Died: on May 7, 2001, cause not
disclosed. He was an 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 tumors by
Propionibacterium.
Died 2000
#14: Linda Reese, age 52. Died: December 25, 2000 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. Dr. Reese was a
Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.
#13: Mike Thomas, age 35. Died: July 16, 2000 a few days after examining a
sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and
survived. He was a microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in
Huntsville.
#12: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., age 62. Died: April 15, 2000 of cancer at
Tulane Medical Hospital. He was an extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher
about mental health and AIDS in the African American community.
Died 1998
#11: Jonathan Mann, age 51. Died September 1998, in Swissair Flight 111 over
Canada. He was founding director of the World Health Organization's global
Aids program 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 program
on Aids which later became the UNAids program. 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 in 1998 in the media when he accused the US National Institutes of
Health of violating human rights by failing to act quickly on developing
Aids vaccines.
#10: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., age 46. Died July 10, 1998, in a traffic
accident while visiting family in Tennessee. She was 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
Bio-safety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of
HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents. .
Died 1994 - 1996
#9: Sidney Harshman, age 67. Died: Dec. 25, 1997, from complications of
diabetes. He was a professor of microbiology and immunology. He was the
world's leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins.
#s6-8: Mark Purdey, his Lawyer, and Veterinarian working with Purdey Die:
CJD doctor Mark Purdey was familiar with the expression "abnormal brain
protein." Purdey's house was burned down, his lawyer on mad cow issues was
driven off the road and died and the veterinarian in the UK BSE inquiry also
died in a mysterious car crash. CJD specialist Dr C. Bruton was killed in a
car crash just before he went public with a new research paper. The
veterinarian on the case also died in a car crash. Purdey's new lawyer, too,
had a car accident, but not fatal. Before Dr. Purdey's death, he speculated
that Dr. C. Bruton (#2 below) might have known more than what was revealed
in his paper before he was killed.
#4-5 Dr. Tsunao Saitoh, age 46. Died: May 7, 1996. Shot and killed,
along with his young daughter, in LaJolla, California. 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. The hit was compared to other killings of Japanese in this country by
muggers. Expert in abnormal proteins in Alzheimer.
#3 Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi. Died in 1994. A graduate doctor from Cornel, he was
hired to head the mycoplasma biowar research project. One of Dr. Aubaidi's
projects was filling payloads of scud missles with mycoplasma strains. In
1995, Dr. Aubaidi was murdered by the Israelis Mussad. His demise, or,
neutralization was made to look like an accident. He was killed in his
native Iraq while he was changing a flat tire and was hit by a truck.
#2 Dr. C. Bruton, a CJD specialist -- who had just produced a paper on the a
new strain of CJD -- was killed in a car crash before his work was announced
to the public. Purdey speculates that Bruton might have known more than what
was revealed in his paper.
#1 Jose Trias, Died: May 19, 1994. Trias and his wife were murdered in
their Chevy Chase, Maryland home. They met with a friend of theirs, a
journalist, before the day of their murder and told him of their plan to
expose HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) funding of "special ops"
research. Grant money that goes to HHMI is actually diverted to special
black ops research projects.