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[BIOWAR] Missing Scientist Found Dead in Mississippi River
Missing Scientist Found Dead in Mississippi River
Fri Dec 21 14:43:46 2001 GMT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - The body of a Harvard scientist missing for more
than a month since his rental car was left parked on a bridge over the
Mississippi River has been found downstream, police said on Friday.
Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body of Don Wiley on
Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist was last
seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
Authorities had yet to determine the cause of death, Memphis police said.
Police had speculated that Wiley committed suicide, though his family and
colleagues said he showed no signs of unhappiness. His rental car was found
on the bridge, its gas tank full and the keys in the ignition.
Wiley's disappearance triggered alarm bells because of his expertise in
deadly viruses such as Ebola amid U.S. fears of possible bioterrorism
following the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings.
Copyright � 2001 Reuters Limited.
Authorities Say Body With Identification of Missing Scientist Found
in Louisiana
The Associated Press
Published: Dec 20, 2001
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, Ebola, herpes and influenza.
AP-ES-12-20-01 2102EST
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