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February 13, 2002
Mystery death of scientist
By Michael Horsnell
DETECTIVES were last night trying to unravel the circumstances in
which a leading university research scientist was found dead at his
blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home.
The body of Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of
East Anglia�s Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global
Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and
ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly
wedged under a chair. It is understood that doors to the terraced
house were locked.
A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Dr Langford, who
lived alone in the house in Norwich, died.
Dr Langford began working at the university in 1993 after gaining his
PhD in childhood leukaemia and infection following a first-class
honours degree in environmental sciences. He worked most recently as
a senior researcher assessing risk to the environment.
Professor Kerry Turner, director of the centre, said: �We are all
very shocked by this appalling news. Ian was without doubt one of
Europe�s leading experts on environmental risk, specialising in links
between human health and environmental risk. He was known for his
work on the effects on health of bathing water and air pollution, for
example. He was one of the most brilliant colleagues I have ever
had.�
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Body in car identified as license examiner
FBI, THP looking for crash, fraud plot links
By Bill Dries
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A Memphis woman allegedly at the center of a scheme to sell
fraudulent Tennessee driver's licenses was identified Tuesday as the
person whose burned body was found early Sunday in the wreckage of a
car in Fayette County.
License examiner Katherine Smith was probably alive when her car hit
a utility pole on U.S. 72 near the Mississippi state line, said
Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Col. Mark Fagan.
Smith, 49, died the day before she was due to appear before a federal
magistrate judge for a detention hearing on a charge of conspiracy to
obtain fraudulent identification documents.
The Highway Patrol and the FBI were continuing a joint investigation
Tuesday into the one-car crash. The agencies are also working
together in the ongoing criminal investigation into the fraud charge.
Fagan said investigators want to know if the fatal car wreck and the
driver's license scheme "intertwine criminally," or if Smith's death
was a coincidence.
"We're not ruling out anything. We're looking at all aspects of that
investigation," he said by phone from Nashville.
"We have a crash. We have a car that's hit a pole and we know it
burned. Now, what sequence - that's part of the investigation."
Smith and five co-defendants were arrested Feb. 5 after they left the
state driver testing station on Summer Avenue. Prosecutors said Smith
had processed four driver's license applications that morning based
on false information provided by co-defendant Khaled Odtllah, 31, of
Shelby County.
Smith, describing Odtllah as a friend, told authorities that he had
asked her to help him obtain driver's licenses six or seven times
before.
Codefendants Mohammed Fares, Mostafa Said Abou-Shahin and Abdelmuhsen
Mahmid Hammad are scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate
judge today. The FBI said the men drove to Memphis from New York last
week to get Tennessee driver's licenses. Their ages and addresses
were unavailable.
Odtllah and Sakhera Hammad, 24, of New York City, the other alleged
middleman, made their appearance on Monday, when they were ordered
held without bond until trial.
The FBI has custody of Smith's charred Acura, which she bought from
Odtllah, at an undisclosed location in Memphis, said Memphis FBI
spokesman George Bolds.
"(Smith) was the subject of a pending FBI investigation. Her death
coming at the time it did is very coincidental. We're looking at
that," Bolds said. "As best we can, we'd like to recreate what
happened and try to determine whether or not there was any sort of
foul play in connection with her death or whether it was an auto
accident."
At Monday's hearing, federal prosecutor Tim DiScenza described
Smith's death as "most unusual and suspicious." He also said two of
her co-defendants had "connections" to the World Trade Center, which
was destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Attorney Anthony Helm, representing Odtllah, accused DiScenza of
raising the terrorism issue based solely on the Middle East origins
of Smith's co-defendants. While Smith was released on her own
recognizance pending Monday's hearing, her co-defendants have
remained in federal custody since their arrest.
Smith's burned body was found in the 1992 Acura Sunday morning
shortly after midnight. She was traveling westbound on U.S. 72 near
the intersection with county route 196, Fagan said. At that point,
the car veered off the road, went through a ditch and hit a utility
pole.
The car caught fire, but the gas tank did not explode, FBI agent J.
Suzanne Nash testified Monday.
Citing a report from the Shelby County Medical Examiner's Office,
Fagan said Smith was identified through dental records and that there
was evidence she had inhaled smoke. To a layman, Fagan said, the
evidence suggests Smith was alive when the car caught fire.
"You obviously would have to be breathing to inhale smoke, which
would tell you that she was not deceased prior to impact."
The Shelby County Medical Examiner's Office referred all questions to
Dr. Frank S. McKnight, the Fayette County medical examiner.
McKnight's office referred all questions to the Highway Patrol.
The Highway Patrol has assigned a "critical incident response team"
to the case. Fagan described the team as a "highly specialized unit
of troopers'' trained in all aspects of crash investigation.
Gene Marquez, resident agent in charge of the Memphis office of the
federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the ATF is
contributing an ATF-certified fire investigator cross-trained as an
explosives expert.
- Bill Dries: 529-2643
February 13, 2002
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