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To: KLP who wrote (752)	12/20/2001 10:22:19 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 827

>>Police Find Body With Scientist ID MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A body carrying the identification of a missing Harvard University scientist was found Thursday in the Mississippi River, about 300 miles south of where the man was last seen. Police Lt. Joe Scott said a positive identification will be made after the body, discovered near a hydroelectric plant in Vidalia, La., is returned to Memphis for an autopsy. A wallet on the body carried the name of Don C. Wiley, a molecular biologist whose abandoned rental car was found Nov. 16 on a Mississippi River bridge in Memphis. The keys were in the ignition and the tank full of gas. Wiley had been in Memphis for a two-day annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital of Memphis. He had served on for about 10 years. Police considered the matter a missing persons case and had said it might have been a suicide. Wiley was last seen Nov. 15 just before midnight at a St. Jude's dinner at a hotel about a 15-minute drive from the bridge. The car was found a few hours later. Wiley is an expert on how the human immune system fights off infections and had recently investigated such dangerous viruses as AIDS (news - web sites), Ebola (news - web sites), herpes and influenza. << dailynews.yahoo.com

To: KLP who wrote (752)	12/21/2001 2:50:36 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 827

>"What do you suppose happened to him???" If foul play, the simplest response is: he knew too much. Either (a)how to produce or (b) how to identify the source(s) of production, either personally knowing individuals or processes. Unless a random killing or hidden personal problem, a casual observeration would point to his unique skills as a prime reason for his elimination. In his case, that involves specific disease microbes and processes, and maybe people who don't wish to be linked to recent Antrax or upcoming events. Whether the FBI investigates in this direction or not is another question.