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To: nw_arizona_granny; fanfan; Fred Nerks
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

190 posted on 03/05/2010 7:14:35 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: All
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."

191 posted on 03/05/2010 7:30:12 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: All
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.

192 posted on 03/05/2010 1:52:56 PM PST by hennie pennie
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