[FourtySeven]

Im

[Jokelahoma]

Knowing MU and Columbia, the poor guy probably accidentally said something that someone may have mistaken for a conservative thought. That'll get you killed there in a hurry.

In all seriousness, you hate to see things like that in a smaller community like Columbia. It isn't the teeming metropolis where this sort of thing gets buried in the back pages of the local paper. Hope they catch the animals who did this.

[Bahbah]

Very sad story.

[SavageRepublican]

You see this????

[LibFreeOrDie]

:...chairman of the MU department of molecular microbiology..."

Uh oh, another microbiologist dead in suspicious circumstances. Paging Art Bell!

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/11/27.html

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2004/01/28.html

[dead]

Does anybody know what sort of research he was working on?

I want to get all conspiratorial, and right now it just looks like he ran into a random scumbag.

[Cicero]

I have a good friend who is in the English department there. He's not a liberal, but I suppose he's probably an exception. And come to think of it the university press put an end to a very successful series he edited, probably because it wasn't P.C. enough.

[Cicero]

I found him on the faculty roster here, but I can't seem to find any further information about him:

http://www.missouri.edu/%7Emmiwww/facultyindex1.htm

[meadsjn]

Im was primarily a protein chemist. Mark McIntosh, chairman of the MU department of molecular microbiology and immunology, said he doubted the crime could have been the act of an angry student.

Another microbiologist bites the dust.

I wonder if the "protein" research relates to mad-cow disease.

[piasa]

Update... they found the murderer... long after the murderer’s suicide:

THE MURDERER OF JEONG IM? The unfortunate life and unhappy ...
www.columbiaheartbeat.com/index.php/crime/444-0130132
COLUMBIA, 1/30/13 (Op Ed) — Mizzou police officials today announced their choice for murderer of biochemistry professor Jeong Im: Timothy Aaron Hoag, a hapless chap with a long rap sheet of misdemeanor criminal offenses, traffic tickets, and court fights with everyone from a popular Columbia school teacher to a Social Security administrator.

MU Police identifies person responsible for homicide of ...
https://www.kbia.org/post/mu-police-identifies...
Jan 30, 2012 · MU Police Chief Jack Watring announced Wednesday morning his department has identified Timothy Aaron Hoag as responsible for the 2005 homicide of Jeong H. Im, a retired faculty member at MU. Hoag committed suicide on Aug. 9, 2012 in Columbia, and investigators matched DNA taken from the crime scene to Hoag. The investigation remains open.

JEONG IM MURDER: On 7th Anniversary, our 2009 series re ...
www.columbiaheartbeat.com/index.php/crime/94-010912
Jeong Im COLUMBIA, 1/9/12 (Beat Byte) — January 7 marks the 7th anniversary of the brutal 2005 stabbing death of Mizzou biochemistry professor Jeong H. Im, Ph.D. In an unusual move given the age of the case, MU police department officials announced last week they are sending the case files to an organized crime research center.

[piasa]

They had other suspects, including a woman:

https://columbiaheartbeat.blogspot.com/2009/10/im-murder-suspect-steps-forward-tells.html

[piasa]

Reportedly, Im was Korean.