[Hot Tabasco]

I can understand that. However, there are several others who have just mysteriously disappeared.

The deceased, I can understand. But the disappearances, too strange.

[TornadoAlley3]

600,000 people go missing in America yearly.
500,000 are found within a year.
Over 25,000 active missing cases remain, and thousands of unknown decedents.

In the case of homicide, dismemberment is no longer a mob tactic.
It is increasingly common in routine murder investigations.

How many scientists total work in the US? Aerospace field? Military?

Ties to US weapons contractors would be an avenue of inquiry.