Of Microbiology and Mortality

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By MIKE WELLS of the Tribune’s staff
Published Sunday, January 23, 2005

The death of retired research Professor Jeong Im has all the makings of a spy novel, and some say that idea isn’t far off base.
Someone stabbed the 72-year-old scientist multiple times in the Maryland Avenue parking garage at the University of Missouri-Columbia, put him in the trunk of his Honda and set the car on fire. Adding to the mystery, police say a hooded, masked man was seen carrying a gas can away from the scene.

University police on Friday announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the Jan. 7 killing. Police have received more than 185 leads, including some that appear far-fetched.

A few days after firefighters found Im’s body, a national radio talk-show guest theorized the killing was part of a plot to kill off key microbiologists in the world before unleashing "the ultimate epidemic."

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While acknowledging he doesn’t know whether Im’s death was part of a plot, Quayle said the cir stances concerned him. "I’m no conspiracy nut," he said. "What you’re seeing is some of the most famous men in the world, at least in their fields, are dying mysteriously." The deaths include stabbings, drownings, plane crashes and hit-and-run crashes. Some were ruled suicides. "There’s only been several who’ve died of ‘natural’ causes," Quayle said.
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Quayle said he has followed bio-weapons issues for 30 years but said he started chronicling the deaths of microbiologists on www.stevequayle.com after a missile in October 2001 downed a passenger jet carrying five Israeli scientists over the Black Sea. Over the next several months, 11 microbiologists around the world died in various cir stances.

After last week’s "Coast to Coast" show, the Tribune received numerous e-mails and phone calls from people around the country who accept Quayle’s idea. "The pattern that’s emerging would be disturbing to any statistician," said Bill Stockglausner of Columbia. "The list is factual, and it appears strange that this is happening to these people who were in a certain profession."

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five of the dead scientists worked for the Howard Hughes Medical Ins ute.

-- several of the researchers were working on DNA sequencing that could be used to pathogenically target a population of people based on a common genetic marker.

-- seven microbiologists were either murdered or "found dead" within FOUR MONTHS of each other. this was actually the big alarm that brought attention to the story. you don't think this is a connection?

-- ALL of the researchers were working on communicable HUMAN diseases, viruses, immunology and/or DNA sequencing. no where is there mention of a reseacher in agricultural diseases (for example). this might be a good project -- to compare the number of mysterious deaths in agriculatural reseach with the number in microbiology.

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