Letting people know she is researching this makes her safer - especially since Richard Clarke has said that foul play looks very possible. What would make her even safer is if other reporters similarly researched and let the world know they are researching. That way the story can’t be stopped by killing any one of them - and if any of them are killed it would raise the visibility of the issue even more.
This situation IS scary, and any reporters who don’t want to be stuck reporting household cleaning tips for the rest of their lives (the only safe subject) need to rise up now, because the coup is very nearly complete. As Yuri Bezmenov said, the “useful idiots” will be the first to be lined up and shot when the revolution is complete.
My comment was directed at the fact that this is just one more in a series of unexplained and downright eerie events that have plagued American life since at least the Kennedy assassination. You're more than right when you say other journalists should be seriously looking into this matter.
Maybe it was simply a drunk or self-involved journalist high on drugs crashing his car after an all-night spree. It wouldn't be the first time. But it's also a mystery. How many of us knew what was really going on beneath the cultural "surface" before the recent NSA spying revelations? How many of us know the truth about so much else in American public life? How personally dangerous is it to probe too deeply?