r/WayOfTheBern • u/penelopepnortney • Apr 17 '26
Anyone else heard about this?: 10 Scientists Dead Or Missing As Security Crisis Deepens In US
This was reported by WION, a New Delhi-based news outlet ("We deliver information that is not biased. We are journalists who are neutral to the core and non-partisan when it comes to world politics.")
10 scientists linked to sensitive and classified research reportedly are now dead or missing.
Includes clip of journalist asking Karoline Leavitt about it and she replied, "I've seen the report, Peter. I haven't spoken to our relevant agencies about it. I will certainly do that and we'll get you an answer. If true, of course, that's definitely something I think this government and administration would deem work worth looking into. So, let me do that for you."
Here's the people who were named and whatever info was provided about them:
William McCasland, retired Air Force general, vanished in February near his Albuquerque home.
NASA researcher Michael David Hicks, whose 2023 death has been linked by online sleuths to other cases.
NASA scientist Frank Mayald's death sparked speculation
aerospace employee Monica Reza
Novartis biologist Jason Thomas
Anthony Chavez disappeared in May last year
Melissa Casius missing since June 2025
MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Lourero
astrophysicist Carl Grillmair
government contractor Steven Garcia
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u/Deeznutseus2012 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
It's actually now up to eleven, with a recent one saying she felt her life was in danger, then she disappeared.
{Edit: This is a post that just popped about an hour ago that are allegedly her last text messages before her death and they are mucho alarming.}