Sudden disappearance of Deep River scientist mystifies colleagues

The Canadian Press ^ | February 21, 2010 | Canada East Interactive Staff

[hennie pennie]

TORONTO - There are still no leads in the case of an eastern Ontario scientist who disappeared without a trace last month, leaving his colleagues mystified. Lachlan Cranswick hasn't been seen since Jan. 18, when he left work at the National Research Council's Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River, northwest of Ottawa.

His nearby Deep River house was reportedly left unlocked and his car was in the garage. His wallet, keys and passport have all been accounted for......

[hennie pennie]

Chemical & Engineering News: Science & Technology - Handling Nuclear Evidence
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/83/8341sci1.html

.....Perhaps most famous is the case of a 35-year-old Turkish man named Uskan Hanifi. According to officials, in May 1999, Hanifi was stopped by guards as he tried to cross into Bulgaria. They searched his car and found documents alluding to a purchase of uranium-235. He had no luggage, save for an air compressor, which they discovered was hollowed out. Inside was a storage vial for nuclear material that contained 10 g of fine uranium powder.

The sample was sent to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where forensic chemists determined that the powder consisted of more than 70% 235U, likely from a nuclear reactor. Because the quantity was so small, Hanifi served only a few months in prison. Officials say that some time after his release, he was found dead in his car. The case is still open.....

[hennie pennie]

Police: UNL professor died of natural causes
A passerby discovered John Stezowski, 65, in a green Volkswagen parked in a lot near 14th and Vine streets, said UNL Police Capt. Carl Oestmann.
HILARY KINDSCHUH and MELISSA LEE / Lincoln Journal Star |
Sunday, December 2, 2007 6:00 pm |

http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/article_188522fc-9bf4-5863-84a5-0cddc1444ae0.html

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemistry professor found dead in his car on campus late Saturday morning died of natural causes, authorities said.

A passerby discovered John Stezowski, 65, in a green Volkswagen parked in a lot near 14th and Vine streets, said UNL Police Capt. Carl Oestmann.

It appears Stezowski had been in the vehicle overnight.

An autopsy on Monday determined his death was natural, Oestmann said........

....A UNL chemistry department faculty member since 1991, Stezowski's research and teaching focused on crystallography and the nature of how molecules interact.

Stezowski had published work on crystallography and was excited about his research, according to Takacs........

[hennie pennie]

Here's another person who never belonged to Scientology who criticized them publically, he was found dead last month, and his friends don't seem to believe he was actually ever suicidal:

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/19/Northpinellas/Scourge_of_Scientolog.shtml

Scientology coverage  
Scourge of Scientology dies in apparent suicide
He seemed to abandon the fight in the last year.
By Jonathan Abel and Robert Farley
Times Staff Writers - Published February 19, 2008

CLEARWATER - Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 39.

Police discovered Lonsdale's body at 12:20 p.m. Saturday after neighbors reported a foul odor. They found a garden hose stretched from the exhaust pipe of Lonsdale's car into a window of his home at 510 N Lincoln Ave., according to Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Daly-Watts. Daly-Watts said there were no signs of foul play, and police found what appeared to be a suicide note. It was not immediately available........

[hennie pennie]

Google Search: "in memoriam" crysallagraphers

Over 7000 results, how would you advise to cull them, to attempt to find any suspicious patterns and/or mysterious connections?

[hennie pennie]

One of Lachlan's Anglican grandfathers, perhaps it was a greatgrandfather who was Anglican sent many Christian missionairies to Iran.

I find it amusing that just today, on Page 26 of the ws messagethread that they realized that the date of LC's disappearance coincides with the Dubai assassination.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/printthread.php?t=95134&pp=25&page=26

Evidentally at least one poster believes that the uproar of the mob in Dubai was to provide total cover for the as-yet secred abduction of LC by U-know-Whoooooo.

LOL

[hennie pennie]

An Australian Missing Persons organization has set up a Facebook page for the missing Dr. Lachlan Cranswick.

I learned about this over at WS, where there are several posters who share my surprise that in the FB description of LC, that it is specifically stated that Dr. Cranswick is B-E-L-I-E-V-E-D to have taken a bus home from work. (Similar to how it is 'believed' that he took out his trash & incorrect recyclables bin to the curb later that evening or early the next morning.)

Now.... almost every single article in the MSM has mentioned ... as a FACT ... that he rode a bus from Chalk River back to Deep River where he was dropped off at the Post Office, and where he was seen speaking outside the P.O. with a curling friend.

So..... if he is only believed to have returned from Chalk River to Deep River ..... then there becomes the possibility that something happened to him in Chalk River, perhaps even at his highly secure place of work......

Very perplexed.... whyever are there any reports whatsoever of him being seen upon a bus or of him being witnessed in front of the post office speaking to a friend???

Below is a link to the Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=347955388953&ref=search&sid=760367785.825614731..1&v=info

[hennie pennie]

I came across this article while searching for something else.

Don't post tips about missing Ontario woman to Facebook: Police

It's pretty astounding, don't you agree? I mean... there have been discussion messagethreads at online forums EVERYWHERE about criminals & crimes & missing persons.... ever since the mid-1990s.

Do you think that online chatting is monitored by American detectives; apparently their Canadian counterparts do not -- do you believe it likely or even possible that American LEOs also ignore all online comments????

VERY curious, indeed. Almost... preposterous...

Don't post tips about missing Ontario woman to Facebook: Police

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/post+tips+about+missing+woman+Facebook+Police/2513847/story.html

......Belleville police Sgt. Julie Forestell said in an interview Tuesday, that people should report facts about the case to the official police tip line or Crimestoppers -- not to Facebook......

.......From a police perspective, Gordon said Facebook simply poses issues of quality control.

Police phone lines are sifted by people who can quickly determine whether there is substance to a tip by cross-referencing it with information they have already collected.

"They can very quickly sort the wheat from the chaff," he said. "You can't do that on Facebook. (Police) will get overwhelmed with information."

Gordon said posting words of support are fine, but posting any information about the case will do more harm than good.

"Do not post it on the Internet because it may confuse rather than assist "and it may inform the person responsible."

A post in the discussion forum of the Lloyd group aimed at all members carries a similar warning: "All pertinent information is included under the 'info' section of this page "anything other than that is just assumptions and speculation which can be harmful to the police investigation. Please do not post any assumptions pertaining to Jessica's disappearance."

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/post+tips+about+missing+woman+Facebook+Police/2513847/story.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

There you go again.

You almost need a world map.

Getting the country, the company and other connections, will take you the rest of your life.

Thanks for starting it, a new one for me.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Hmmmn, worth thinking about.

Leaves open even more doors, from the plain old street thug, to the more important scientist connection.

[hennie pennie]

>>>> "Leaves open even more doors, from the plain old street thug, to the more important scientist connection. " <<<

Yep, all the way from street thug, to a random drive-by, or an accidental hit & run & hide the body.... all the entire spectrum of humanity between THAT street crime unto colleagues or the military industrial complex or organized state sponsored terrorist groups or rogue states wanting nuclear expertise... the list becomes infinite when you add in the fact that this scientist is brilliant enough to have successfully staged his own disappearance and is already happily engaged in an entirely new life.

Just an infinite range of possibilities; although my intitial suspicion is that he took a long unvoluntary trip on the 'Tehran Express' -- but evidentally there are very active Asian tongs in Canada, and he had publically denounced a couple Chinese scientists for their fraudulent work. I've not read anything about the Asian tongs in Canada, but I noticed that on the Canadian website called Prime Time Crime that there is a link to a section about them on that site.

I hope that Dr. Cranswick is alive & well, surely all the rivers in Ontario are thawed by this time and were he a drowning victim his remains would have been recovered.

[hennie pennie]

Crystallographers missing or dead:

Professor John Stezowski, found dead in car;
Dr. Don Wiley, found dead in river;
Dr. Lachlan Cranswick, not located.

Radiologists missing or dead:

Dr. Shankar Palaniappan, found dead in river;
Dr. Bob Chappell, not located, his body presumed to be in coastal waters off Australia.

[hennie pennie]

This family in America is relying on FACEBOOK to get the word out about Jocelyn Clark who has been missing since January 10th:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Jocelyn+Clark+Missing%2C+Pinebluff+North+Carolina

[hennie pennie]

Anybody happen to be at all familiar with this website???

Thanks.

_________________________________

Arabia Deserta
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Canadian Nuclear Scientist, Iranian IRG, a Lame Camel
http://arabiadeserta.com/2010/03/01/canadian-nuclear-scientist-iranian-irg-a-lame-camel.aspx?ref=rss 

˜No hat. No boots. No gloves. Nothing." Canadian police are mystified by the disappearance of an Australian nuclear scientist from a remote research facility in the country's south-east....

....Several Iranian scientists have also vanished from odd places. The last one vanished while on pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have no idea where he can be, nor do the Americans, nor the Israelis. And if you believe all that my good lame camel is still up for sale.

Is it possible the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps has started kidnapping Western nuclear scientists.....

[hennie pennie]

Although I knew that the Chalk River nuclear facility was active in the Manhatten Project, I didn't realize that it was also a crucial element in the start of the Cold War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko

Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (b.Jan.13, 1919, Rogachevo, USSR - d.June 28, 1982, Mississauga, Canada) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.

Gouzenko's defection exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the then-unknown technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War...

....When word got out in the media (February, 1946) that Soviets operated a spy network in Canada in which Canadians gave classified information to the Soviet government it created a great stir. Much of the information taken was of public knowledge and the Canadian government was less concerned with the information stolen but more of the potential of real secrets coming into the hands of future enemies.

Canada played an important part in the early research with nuclear bomb technology and that kind of vital information could be dangerous in the hands of other nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko

[hennie pennie]

Man's body found in Calgary river | VANCOUVERITE
http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/03/15/mans-body-found-in-calgary-river/

.......the discovery of the body of a man in the Bow River

Body found in the river - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA
http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2493149

.....body found on the shore of the St. Clair River .....is believed to be that of a male, was found Sunday afternoon.....John Paquette, 27, jumped after abandoning his car on the eastbound span of the Blue Water Bridge on Nov. 3, 2009.......

Body Found in River- St. Clair Township
by Peter Jackson
http://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/news_item.php?NewsID=22644

  Lambton OPP say they don't suspect foul play in the death of a male whose body was found beside the St. Clair River on the weekend.......

[hennie pennie]

sdpd : Message: Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sdpd/message/2481

.......Moreover, quality of life was important to him: he preferred finally Chalk River in a wonderful nature, Canada to another job opportunity at Berkeley.

He was involved in many social and sporting activities: he was the vice-president of the Deep River Curling and Squash Club, an avid dinghy sailor on the Ottawa River in the summer, and enjoyed walking and cross-country skiing in the winter.....

[hennie pennie]

There is still no new information about the nuclear power plant supervisor in India who died.

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&cf=all&ned=in&hl=en&q=Rawatbhata+Nuclear+plant

[hennie pennie]

Live Dangerously: Be a Scientist
Posted by DallasBC on February 24, 2010 at 12:26am
http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2649739%3ABlogPost%3A153159&commentId=2649739%3AComment%3A153410&xg_source=activity

Another scientist involved in disease control has been killed. David Banks was the principal scientist with Biosecurity Australia and was involved in containing pest and disease threats. He died along with 15 other people when the commuter plane he was traveling in went down in Queensland, Australia.....

[hennie pennie]

Body not yet identified, but evidentally someone who recently was canoeing....

 Body found in Newmarket river with capsized canoe nearby http://www.google.com/gwt/x?q=Newmarket+body+canoe&output=chtml&hl=en&ei=ZhOgS_iiEY7WNtzP5MYC&ct=res&cd=us%2F17593727501343-0&source=news&ned=us&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.thestar.com%2Fmobile%2Fgta%2Farticle%2F780684
March 16, 2010 15:03:00 Ann Hui
Staff Reporter

The body of a man was pulled out of Holland River in Newmarket Tuesday afternoon. Not far from the body was a capsized canoe..... foul play is not suspected....