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

The Times ^ | By Michael Horsnell

[LeezaLeeza]

I'm new--what does "bump" mean?

[lafroste]

Police are investigating the death of research scientist Ian Langford, 40, a senior fellow at East Anglia University, who was found naked from the waist down and wedged under a chair at his blood-spattered home

Detectives today said that they had ruled out the possibility that a scientist whose body was found at his home died as a result of foul play.

OK, my BS meter is definately registering something. How does a guy accidently wound himself seriously enough to splatter blood everywhere, then wedge his dying half-naked body under a chair? I'm usually not one for conspiracy theories, but when local cops start stretching to avoid the presumption of homicide in so many cases with a strong common thread, something either very sinister is going on, or something very sinister has been thwarted.

[maestro]

Your#38)

"British Official Secrets Act" in full operation?
IMHO, guess?

[lelio]

bump for later reading

[lonestar]

Detectives today said that they had ruled out the possibility that a scientist whose body was found at his home died as a result of foul play. Ian Langford, 40, a senior researcher in the field of environmental risk at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, was found dead at his home in Norwich late on Monday. A spokeswoman for Norfolk police today said that following post mortem tests police had decided that Dr Langford's death was not suspicious. It is understood that Dr Langford had wounds on his body.

If I'm ever found dead, half-naked, under a chair, with wounds on my body --I can guarantee it isn't natural.

[Nita Nupress]

Hypoxyphilia  -  when someone uses hypoxia (oxygen deprivation to the brain) to achieve sexual excitement. Can result in autoerotic asphyxiation. 

He probably tried to loosen the noose (either before or after ejaculation... Wanna start a pool?), fell out of the chair he was standing on, hit his head on the way down, got wedged under the chair, bled like a stuck pig, and then either died from the head injury, from loss of blood, or from asphyxiation.

Or he was whacked by someone and they went to a lot of trouble to make it look like the above scenario.

Ain't life just grand?

[Nita Nupress]

By the way, us wimmin wouldn't be caught dead doing something that stupid. ;-)

[isom35]

I prefer Steed and Mrs. Peel for this one.

[txzman]

"Once is happenstance, twice a coincidence, three times means a "Friend of Bill" is involved ;)

And don't ya know that the mysterious death of Bill's dog fits into all this somehow. Dog's are always messin' around with the worst kinda microbes.....usually bringing them in the house.

[spycatcher]

Watch Salon.com do a "serious journalism" piece now that Free Republic believes Bill Clinton's dog is behind the deaths of scientists!

Wasn't it Salon who thought all the jokes about the dog dying were serious posts? Liberals have no sense of humor.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Someone killing stem cell researchers?

[monkeyshine]

bump!

[brat]

If we can figure out WHY, we'll know who. What specific research and study did they all have in common. I'd like to know-I have a daughter working towards her Masters in Microbiology.

[Busywhiskers]

He cut himself shaving. Yes that's it!

[Nita Nupress]

Here's an example, fwiw...

http://www.sagazette.com/joanne/jenn_aea.html

 The practice apparently started when it was discovered that hanged men sometimes get erections and ejaculate, even after the hangings. This carried over to the thought that by preventing oxygen to the brain, a sense of light-headedness and intoxication will occur, which will heighten the feeling of orgasm. The "normal" way generally consists of a young man stripping naked and standing on a chair or table. He will then tie a noose lightly around his neck (perhaps a belt), lean against it to limit the amount of air flow to his brain, then masturbate. It is believed that many of the accidental deaths caused by autoerotic asphyxiation were due to the man fainting from a lack of oxygen, hence causing him to fall off his ledge and hang himself. According to www.silentvictims.org, between 500 and 1,000 men die of this every year in the United States, and about 30% of all adolescent male hangings are the result of autoerotic asphyxiation.

[smileee]

How would you explain the plane shot down by the Russians coming out of Israel? The Russians did own up to that, didn't they?

[185JHP]

DHMO can in fact be deadly stuff - in a gaseous state, it can burn you fatally - in a solid state, it is hard enough to fracture your skull. And as you say, don't drink too much of it...

[justshutupandtakeit]

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