Missing Scientists

Where is Neil McCasland? Where is Monica Reza? What happened to Amy Eskridge? Eleven Americans, dead or missing since 2022. All with access to America's most sensitive research. On February 27, 2026, a retired Air Force major general walked out of his Albuquerque home and disappeared into open desert. He left his prescription glasses on the kitchen table. He took a wallet, a pair of hiking boots, and a .38 revolver. His name is William Neil McCasland. He was commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson. Before that, Director of Special Programs for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. Before that, directed-energy work at Kirtland. He spent thirty-three years on the most secret line in the United States national security apparatus. On the morning he vanished, no one could tell you where he had gone. His name didn't stay alone for long. A materials scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory named Monica Reza, who walked up a hiking trail in the Angeles National Forest and didn't come back. A Los Alamos employee named Melissa Casias, last seen on the shoulder of a New Mexico highway. An MIT plasma physicist named Nuno Loureiro, shot at his door. A Caltech astronomer named Carl Grillmair, shot on his porch. An anti-gravity researcher in Huntsville named Amy Eskridge. A retired Los Alamos foreman named Anthony Chavez. A property custodian at a national-security campus named Steven Garcia. A Novartis scientist named Jason Thomas, found in a Massachusetts lake when the ice broke. An Air Force intelligence veteran named Matthew Sullivan, dead before his scheduled testimony to Congress. And two more — both at JPL, both deaths undisclosed. On April 16, President Trump said it was "pretty serious stuff." On April 20, House Oversight Chairman James Comer demanded a federal briefing. The FBI is now spearheading the investigation. So are we. Missing Scientists is a long-form investigation into the deaths and disappearances the FBI is now reviewing —

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English

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podcast