Mystery death of scientist (Yet another scientist has been killed in mysterious circumstances)

The Times ^ | By Michael Horsnell

[3catsanadog]

Whoooo - a recipe for some big time technicolor flatulence.

[JudyB1938]

Thanks for the bump. I'm still wondering and still hoping somebody can answer the question: Are Drs Robert M. Schwartz and David Schwartz related?

[4Freedom]

If these are global acts of assasination, it's hard to imagine anyone, but China or the Russian mafia, being willing and able to pull it off, anymore.

[JudyB1938]

Yes, the daughter is the fourth person charged in the death of her father.

[3catsanadog]

That's happened to me many a time at Free Republic!

[Prodigal Daughter]

FYI

[lonestar]

Can you believe it.

Reminds me of the three deaths that were initially ruled "homosides/suicide" in Houston many years ago. A man, his wife and their baby were found shot to death. Ruling was, the man shot his wife and baby and then shot himself. But there was no gun at the scene.

[archy]

The Hernando de Soto Bridge carries Interstate 40 out of Memphis, across the Mississippi River into Arkansas. It was early Sunday morning (or late Saturday night depending on your point of view) in one of America's premier music and nightclub towns. The traffic on the bridge was reduced to a single lane in each direction. This would have caused all eastbound traffic out of Saturday-night, Christmas-season Memphis to slow down and travel in one lane.

First off, I thought I read he went off the old bridge, next you go west to leave Memphis.

Memphis is on the east bank of the river.

Long distance information give me Memphis, Tennessee
Help me find the party that tried to get in touch with me
She could not leave a number but I know who placed the call
'cause my uncle took a message and he wrote it on the wall

Help me information get in touch with my Marie
She's the only one who'd call me here from Memphis, Tennessee
Her home is on the south side, high up on the ridge
Just a half-a-mile from the Mississippi bridge....

Here's a year-old pic of the bridge taken downriver from the Memphis side, from Memphis' Tom Lea Park. Arkansas is to the left, Memphis to the right.

I think I've got some shots that may show the guardrails back around October/November, but most of my bridge photos are of the Harahan Bridge. The Frisco Bridge is the classy one. recent Memphis/Arkansas bridge news story *here*>.

-archy-/-

[aculeus]

This sounds to me like a crime that does not dare to speak its name.

Leni

That was exactly my reaction. (I stopped reading beyond "Naked below the waist".)

[Nita Nupress]

Here's a good article about it that has warning signs for parents. It's an 18-year old article, but the information is still relevant, especially if you have teenagers.

'AUTOEROTIC DEATH' OF YOUTHS CAUSES WIDENING CONCERN (New York Times, 1984)

[JudyB1938]

Kathryn Hepburn had a brother die doing this.

[Nita Nupress]

The pictures are creative and cute and all, but that's an extra 168,085 bytes we have to download every time the thread reloads. < /rant >

[EverOnward]

The lack of pants is the relevent clue. Murdered by a homosexual hustler picked up at the local pub?

Happens all the time -- just not reported that way.

[Nita Nupress]

Ugh. I won't be back.

[sakic]

The body count while Bush is President continues to mount and yet I don't see anyone charting the list anywhere. Maybe it's because it would be as stupid as the list for the previous Prez.

[razorback-bert]

It's been awhile since I lived in Memphis, is the Hernando de Soto Bridge the I-55 or I-40 bridge. I was almost sure it was the I-55.

Just a history note, in 1972 the Mississippi River was 26 miles wide at Memphis from November to January of '73.

[powderhorn]

This is very interesting stuff. Who do you think would be behind all this?

Here's my guess: Whoever is responsible has resources. A determined person with normal resources might be able to off one or two scientist, but it would take someone or some organization with plenty of resources to off lots of scientists who live in several nations--all in a relatively short peroid of time. Any group with these resources would probably already be known, so a good guess would be that these actions are state sponsored. Iraq?

[boris]

"Nitrogen is not a "deadly" gas, and is a part of the air. An extreme over-abundance of nitrogen in one's immediate atmosphere would gradually cause shortness of breath, lightheadedness, and fatigue; conditions a biologist would certainly recognize."

Well, I have heard of incidents where entering an area filled with nitrogen has killed several people. At Cape Canaveral (Kennedy), I recall one incident where two men went into an area that had been "purged" with nitrogen. No alarm sounded. They collapsed. Others, seeing what had happened, rushed in and were themselves killed.

If there is a 100% nitrogen atmosphere in an enclosed area, incapacitation can be very swift.

Ever see a sign in an industrial facility: "ENCLOSED SPACE. NO ENTRY WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION."? There is a reason for such notices.

--Boris