- 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.
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- 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.
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- Authorities had yet to determine the cause of death,
Memphis police said.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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