Posted on 02/25/2018 6:14:28 AM PST by sodpoodle
The authorities in Atlanta announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case of a missing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who disappeared about two weeks ago.
The employee, Timothy J. Cunningham, 35, was promoted to commander in the United States Public Health Service in July, his family said. According to the police, he was last seen on Feb. 12.
“I feel like I’m in a horrible ‘Black Mirror’ episode,” Commander Cunningham’s sister, Tiara Cunningham, said in a phone interview on Saturday. “I’m kind of lost without him, to be quite honest.”
Ms. Cunningham, 27, was the last family member to speak with Commander Cunningham before he went missing, she said.
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Captain Obvious has spoken.
That's pretty much the state of most government institutions, facilities, programs, goals, objectives, and outcomes, in a modern records keeping world.
Go figure?/s
Hope he’s not patient zero of the apocalypse.
It should be protocol that anyone involved in lab or research in contact with organisms/viruses/germs etc, have their blood and urine checked routinely. Maybe it is.
My guess is that he was involved with some nefarious people who took him for a ride.....
Sure sounds like a case that will end in suicide. Maybe no message, but ‘he had a lot going on’, left keys, wallet, and all at home, no foul play. He didn’t beam up anywhere. Where did he wander off to to commit suicide? Else, is something missing recently from CDC? Did he disappear?
Yep, if you read the whole story....parents got concerned and actually flew down to Atlanta. So, his car is sitting there. Keys sitting on the table. Wallet and phone are in plain view. It’s like he just walked out.
Adding to this, he does a phone-call-in for the sick excuse. For a gov’t worker, it’ll work for the first day or so, but you need to get a doctor’s note for a longer period. It appears like someone came by....that he knew, and he just called in sick and went off with the associate.
Oddly, we aren’t talking about some idiot. This guy has a doctorate degree and was considered fairly bright.
I’d be thinking some kind of drug-issue or woman-problem....but you would have taken your billfold with you.
Other thing...he left the dog there in the house. Most dog owners wouldn’t have done that so easily.
Much of the CDC is in the trendy Decatur area which is restored urban core nearby. Some nice areas not too far from real sketchy.
Last week a friend of his posted a missing notice on our neighborhood website. So sad for his family & friends.
Corporations monitor risk prone employees thru their emails, social media, private investigators, banking records, credit reports, and personal health information.
Working for government gives you a reprieve from such intrusive measures meant to safeguard what Proctor and Gamble put into their toilet paper from people who may sell such information.
The CDC is stuffed full of microbiologists and infectious disease experts — most of whom are geeky science types whose idea of a wild weekend is binge watching Dr. Who while buzzed on Earl Grey tea.
I’ve seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well................................
OK I read the article.
Does anyone know what he was working on? It does not say if he was an M.D., probably not because promotion to O-5 comes earlier than age 35 for them (Congress will not allow a separate M.D. pay scale for the military and PHS, so instead they go quickly to O-6. Not the way I would do it, but that’s what it is).
Agree it’s a probable suicide, but would be nice to know hat he was doing.
When we are not saving the world.
It’s fine.
The rumors of the dead rising and eating brains around Atlanta are unfounded.
It would be helpful if they posted a picture.
I’d be thinking some kind of drug-issue or woman-problem....but you would have taken your billfold with you.
Other thing...he left the dog there in the house. Most dog owners wouldn’t have done that so easily.
Yup. Those two items raise red flags.
Do you know what kijnd of research he was involved in?
I wonder if he went somewhere and committed suicide?
The son of a close friend always wanted to work for the CDC. He studied and graduated at the top of his class in microbiology. He applied for and was successful at getting a position at the CDC. He moved to Atlanta. About 6 or 8 months later, I rove down the street and saw him cutting the grass at his parents’ home. I pulled over and said, “Peter, I thought you were in Atlanta.”
He replied, “It’s too dangerous working there. You only get 1 mistake and you’re dead.”
He got a job at a local pharmaceutical firm making salves.
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