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]

Say, in the comments on this page, there is mention that a WHITE VAN is often seen in the area, and in fact in Pennsylvania, just before someone was missing, a WHITE VAN circles the block several times, asking different individuals if they'd like a ride.

http://sfkillers.com/?p=1170

[hennie pennie]

For anyone interested, it turns out that WS has multiple long ongoing threads about all the missing college aged males; there's LOTS of research already done over there.

google search of WS search results

[hennie pennie]

Here's the printable, fast-2-download version of the latest WS thread dealing with potential victims of the sf killers:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/printthread.php?t=85769

[hennie pennie]

Deaths of Male College Students/The River Killers
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=146&order=desc

WS: The Ones Who Got Away
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64347

Male drownings in Canada
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/printthread.php?t=64990

[hennie pennie]

I don't know whether the following info is still accurate, it occurred to me to search on the word, 'bartender' in connection with the SF Killers.

http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/20574754.htm

Mysterious deaths piling up
Published: June 19, 2008 1:00 PM
"......Earlier this month a Vancouver Courier feature story showed some staggering numbers. Going back to 2003, as many as 22 men aged 18-52 have vanished with no real leads whatsoever. The similarities are there, however hazy. Most are young, athletic, work construction or labour jobs and have tattoos, and go missing after a night of drinking or partying with friends at crowded places. Some have vanished during the day and a ton of false sightings have occurred......

FOUND IN DISCUSSION LOCATED HERE:
Smiley Face Killers [murder connects dozens around country] [Archive]

[hennie pennie]

FOUND IN DISCUSSION LOCATED HERE:
Smiley Face Killers [murder connects dozens around country] [Archive]

[hennie pennie]

 

March 4, 2010  

Police call off ground search for missing scientist
By SEAN CHASE, QMI Agency

PEMBROKE, Ont. - Police have called off the ground search for a nuclear scientist in eastern Ontario whose mysterious disappearance in January has baffled colleagues.

Lachlan Cranswick, 41, a scientist with the National Research Council in Chalk River, Ont., was last seen Jan. 18. Police said they will continue to treat the case as a missing person's investigation, but no foul play is suspected.

Friends reported Cranswick missing after he failed to show up for a curling game. Police found the front door of his house unlocked and his wallet and keys inside. It appeared the Australian native had just put out his garbage cans and recycle bins.

At the time, they theorized he was out for an evening stroll when he disappeared.

"We really don't know what happened to him but there is nothing to lead us to believe foul play is involved," OPP Det. Const. Chris Pinkerton said this week.....

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/03/04/13116486-qmi.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

on the Mexican/USA border, a gang of drug traffickers were seriously into human sacrifice — you remember them, right?<<<

We had them here in the valley too, certain times of the year, they killed black cats.

Satan worship.

[nw_arizona_granny]

22 men aged 18-52 have vanished<<<

That is planned murder and it is not easy to kill a young man, unless you were to drug his drink.

[hennie pennie]

This article has a VERY sensationalist title, I have NO idea how something this outrageous got by an editor.

There is NOTHING *new* in this entire article and nothing "dark" about Dr. Lachlan Michael David Cranswick is mentioned, much less, "revealed."

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REVEALED: Dark Side of Nuclear Physicist
http://www.smh.com.au/world/revealed-dark-side-of-missing-nuclear-scientist-20100305-pov2.html

DEEP RIVER was a utopia built to house scientists working on the first atomic bomb, and one of their heirs, Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian scientist missing in the harsh Canadian winter, chose to include this mordant 1958 poem by a local physicist on his webpage. The town has a reputation for a kind of tiresome near-perfection made for parody.

Not for nothing did the film director David Lynch have Naomi Watts's character in Mulholland Drive explain her difficulties coping with Hollywood.

''I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this 'dream place,''' she says. ''You can imagine how I feel.''

Deep River was also the name of the apartment block in another Lynch film, Blue Velvet.

Mr Cranswick's disappearance has an almost Lynch-like sense of absurdity.

Not only does it hint at a dark side of utopia, but his work as a crystallographer - the field of science determining the arrangement of atoms in solids - prompted old Cold War paranoia of stolen nuclear secrets.

But his family in Melbourne says he is a ''stereotypical geek''. Townsfolk paint a picture of a well-liked man, telling the Herald Mr Cranswick was ''enthusiastic, hard-working and dependable'', known locally as the Australian who loved sailing on the wide Ottawa River in summer and, come winter, for his adoption of that Canadian obsession, the sport of curling.

But Mr Cranswick seemed to have an.....

http://www.smh.com.au/world/revealed-dark-side-of-missing-nuclear-scientist-20100305-pov2.html

[hennie pennie]

Hmmmmmm....

"It's then assumed that he went home."

Hmmmmmm.... "It's then assumed that he went home."

IF he was nabbed by someone, or some people, THEY or s/he could have taken the wallet and GPS back into the house, and then taken out the garbage & recycling bin.

THAT would explain why LC's reycycling bin was set out, INCORRECTLY, as there wasn't going to be a pickup for recyclables for approximately ten days; the precise date escapes me, but it was at least a week AFTER the next morning's garbage pickup.

E X C E R P T :

ALLISON CALDWELL: When is the last time anyone actually heard from him, whether it be by email or a phone call or anything like that?

RUPERT CRANSWICK: Yeah on that Monday he definitely caught the bus home. The bus let him off at the post office at Deep River. And he was then seen to be talking to another chap who was a member of the curling club.

It's then assumed that he went home.

The reason is that his computer had work on it at 6.30, 7pm and also his wallet with his IDs etc were found at home and his phone.

ALISON CALDWELL: What was in the email that he sent at 6.30?

RUPERT CRANSWICK: It was to do with the curling club. The young people of the area were having a pub crawl and the curling club has its own bar which Lachlan was responsible for. And I'd noticed that he'd sent information to another member of the curling club committee saying he was happy about the curling club being used for that activity.....

from:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2834539.htm?site=adelaide

REPEAT: "It's then assumed that he went home."

"It's then assumed that he went home."

"It's then assumed that he went home."

[hennie pennie]

The Smiley Face Killer in Duluth Minnesota
http://surfdete.ipower.com/duluth.html

01-17-2010 Sly McCurry (Superior, WI)
01-19-2010 Eric Michael Peterson (Bloomington, MN)
01-22-2010 Jonathan Lacina (Ames, Iowa)

Dr.Cranswick vanished on January 18, 2010.

How far away would he be from Duluth (01/17), and how long would it take to get from Chalk River to Bloomington, Minnesota (01/19) that's where the Mall of America is located.

[hennie pennie]

There's quite a few in-depth online articles about all the missing males in Canada; here's a particularly well written one:

http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=26d28beb-88d2-43c2-8ccd-3e742db307f6

Missing
Chilliwack resident Michael Scullion, 30, last seen in Agassiz April 10, 2008.
Burnaby resident Kellen McElwee, 25, last seen in Langley March 19, 2008.
Langley resident Derek Kelly, 32, last seen at Bridge Lake Jan. 1, 2008.
Langley resident John Kahler, 29, last seen at Stave Lake Nov. 2, 2007.
Burnaby resident Brian Braumberger, 18, last seen June 1, 2007.

Vancouver Courier
May 21, 2008

The day after Mother's Day, Jane Kahler is missing her son John. He was healthy, sociable and had no known connection to crime. He vanished last fall in a case that baffles police. And as too many families in the Lower Mainland believe, he is part of a growing list of painfully mysterious missing person cases. More than one parent wonders if their disappearances are connected. "Too many mothers are missing their sons," says Jane during an interview from her Langley home.

May 25 is National Missing Children's Day in Canada, but some groups are using the date to call attention to all missing persons, regardless of their age. In the past several years much media attention has deservedly been given to missing women in B.C. Besides the missing and murdered women of the Downtown Eastside, and the subsequent trial and conviction of serial killer Robert (Willie) Pickton, B.C. is home to the "Highway of Tears," a stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert. Initially, nine women were listed as having gone missing or were found murdered along the stretch of highway since 1989.

Last year police expanded their investigation and added another nine names to that list. But some families want attention paid to the dozens of men who've gone missing in the past four years in southwestern B.C. Using archives from B.C. newspapers, the Courier began with a list of almost 60 missing men. Men with possible explanations for their disappearances, such as serious mental or physical health problems, seniors in frail health, probable suicides and those known to police for links to gangs or drugs were eliminated, leaving a list of almost 40.

The Courier cross-referenced the remaining names with 15 RCMP and municipal police detachments, follow-up........

[hennie pennie]

Remarkably little information exists online about the late doctor, Shankar Palaniappan who is listed among possible Smiley Face Killers victims. I was curious to see that he was about to start an internship in radiology, because most of the radioisotopes used in the United States of America for medical puposes - almost ALL of them come from the Chalk River AECL nuclear plant where Dr. Cranswick worked.

Dr.M's Analysis: Death of a colleague, Dr.Shankar Palaniappan
http://drmaxtor.blogspot.com/2005/10/death-of-colleague-drshankar.html

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13abc.com: Missing Doctor's Body Found in Toledo 10/16/05
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=3523585

________________________________________

Ann Arbor Doctor is Missing (Updated) http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/002362.html

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[hennie pennie]

Smiley Face Murders: U.S.A.
List of Names, Dates, Photos, etc.
http://sfkillers.com/?page_id=33

Missing Men in Canada « hazel8500
http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/missing-men-in-canada/

[hennie pennie]

I thought these reports from Australia were interesting, in light of the fact that most people examining the "Smiley Face" victims claim that the rate of drowning in other parts of the USA is nowhere near as high as the locations associated with the SF killers.

"DON'T DRINK AND DROWN"
Drowning deaths prompt stronger campaign
Posted September 14, 2009 18:20:00
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/14/2685637.htm

The Royal Life Saving Society says it will strengthen its water safety messages after an increase in drowning deaths in Tasmania.

More than 300 Australians drowned between July last year and June this year, the highest number in the past six years. Twelve males and one female drowned in Tasmania, up from 11 males the previous year.

Rodney Willits from the Tasmanian branch of the Royal Life Saving Society says it is not clear exactly where each Tasmanian drowned but there is concern about the large number of men in the statistics.

"Males I guess generally take greater risks than females and certainly in the age bracket from 18 to 34 years there certainly is a focus on alcohol," he said.

"So we certainly know that alcohol and water don't mix and we are developing some strategies to try and raise the awareness of that."

The society plans to ramp up swimming education for children and parents and will run a "don't drink and drown" campaign aimed at young men........

Drowning Reports
2008 National Drowning Report
Due for Immediate Release: Wednesday 12 November 2008
MEN THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DROWN
http://www.royallifesaving.com.au/www/html/2269-2008-national-drowning-report.asp

New statistics showing men are almost three times more likely to drown than women have prompted a warning from the Royal Life Saving Society Australia for men across all age groups to improve their water safety and swimming skills and to avoid drinking alcohol when in, on, or near the water.

The National Drowning Report 2008, which was released today, shows that 204 men drowned in Australia between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008 in a range of locations including rivers, oceans and beaches. Of those deaths, almost a quarter were young men aged 18 to 34 and most died in summer and autumn while engaging in swimming or other waterbased recreational activities.

........"While we're pleased to see the slight reduction in overall drowning deaths, the rate at which young men and toddlers are drowning is extremely disappointing," Royal Life Saving Society Australia CEO Rob Bradley said.

"At the time the report was written, there wasn't confirmation about whether these young men had consumed alcohol immediately prior to their deaths. But we know from previous studies that alcohol plays a role in a significant proportion of drowning deaths in that age group.

"It only takes a small amount of alcohol to slow down your reaction times, so when you get into trouble it is that much harder to save yourself. It impairs your judgment so you're more likely to take risks. It can also disturb your sense of direction, so suddenly up is down and instead of swimming to the surface......

[hennie pennie]

What is happening to nuclear scientists in India????? Huh??? Just last week, there was a report that one had committed suicide at the railway tracks. But now.... tonight, there is an article about a murder, an article about a suicide, and an article about a fire which killed two OTHER nuclear scientists.

WHAT is going on?????

Barc scientist commits suicide
Times of India - March 4, 2010 MUMBAI: A 27-year-old Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) scientist allegedly committed suicide at Trombay in â€¦ 53 related »

Accidental mixing of chemicals caused BARC fire
Ashok Chavan DNA India - March 3, 2010 PTI The fire in BARC, which killed two nuclear scientists, was caused by low intensity explosive energy released from â€¦ 8 related »

Was murdered Barc scientist a sex maniac?
DNA India - February 24, 2010 Was Mahadevan Padmanabhan Iyer, the 46-year-old senior scientist from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), who was  33 related »

Police clueless in BARC scientist's murder
Times of India - February 28, 2010 28 Feb, 2010 1636hrs IST PTI MUMBAI: Almost a week after the murder of a 48-year-old BARC scientist, city police who â€¦

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[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping Hennie Pennie.