At 02:30 PM 1/25/2005, Erik Baard wrote:
Hi All -
A woman was killed by crossfire across the way from me early last year. A few weeks later I heard gunshots and ran out the door to see if I might help, but the victim was a young man on the sidewalk, his brains blasted out. His vacant eyes stared up into the light pre-dawn rain when they rolled him onto the stretcher. A man at my subway stop, also just around the corner, had his face blasted inward. And a homeless man was sliced and stabbed to death quietly off to the side of our plaza. Hey, my rent is cheap at least.
But the point is, not one of these cases has been solved. It's sad but true that families will often have no resolution. My family was lucky, when my 23-year old uncle was murdered days before Christmas and two weeks before his wife gave birth to their first child. His killers were picked up at another murder scene just hours later. But I can also say that two decades later the police were still probing around my former step father for a murder they believed he commited in 1974 (no, we didn't know about this when my mother married him).
The fact is that outdoor scenes make life difficult; that much more chaos and complexity. And robberies gone bad, because of their impersonal nature, are terribly difficult unless the killer boasts or confesses.
The fact is, however, that Eugene Mallove was not a large threat to the world order. He might have been correct, but he was not alone in his beliefs nor even the primary scientific mind behind Cold Fusion. I know of no other advocates who have been silence with fear as a result of his murder either.
Cold Fusion has lost a passionate and articulate advocate. The talented circle of people involved with this movement will need to continue without him. But spinning vague conspiracy theories are more likely to hurt his family then bring them justice.
Erik Baard
Erik:
Friends of the late Dr. Eugene Mallove are quite disappointed that DNA evidence has
not been returned to the local detectives from the Connecticut state laboratory (see excerpt below).
Neither this delay, nor the lack of accountability, are probably conspiracies, but ALL victims
of homicides, and their families, deserve better -- including a faster turn-around than almost a year delay.
No one expects a 15-minute DNA identification turn around, like on TV with Lilly Rush or the CSI series,
but the tardive and inadequate response of three seasons does not herald an efficiency
of which any competent community should be satisfied.
Dr. Mitchell Swartz
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1. Anyone with information about Mallove's death please call the Norwich Police Department at (860) 886-5561. The anonymous tip line can be reached at (860) 886-5561, ext. 500.
2. More on this story:
"8 months after his death, no leads in Mallove case" <http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050124/REPOSITORY/501240347/1031>Concord Monitor - AnnMarie Timmins
"Soon after Eugene Mallove of Pembroke was found murdered in Connecticut, outside his childhood home, the local police said they had talked to a couple of suspects and expected to have fingerprint and DNA evidence within a month. That was eight months ago, and the police said last week that they are no closer to solving the case. Some of that DNA evidence - the best hope of tying someone to the scene - still hasn't come back from Connecticut's state lab. The police haven't recovered any of the items taken from Mallove, a watch, cell phone and credit cards, said Lt. Timothy Menard of the Norwich, Conn., police. And despite pleas to the public for help, no one has called."
3. Link to the story, with \other comments at COLD FUSION TIMES web site
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The COLD FUSION TIMES - the Uncensored cold fusion web site
http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html
