Dead / Jailed Scientists Affiliated With The BP Oil Disaster

Can so much tragedy be merely coincidence?

LSU scientist Gregory Stone
© UnknownFebruary 17, 2011 - LSU scientist Gregory Stone, 54 - Unknown Illness

BP Anthony Nicholas Tremonte
© UnknownJanuary 26, 2011 - Anthony Nicholas Tremonte, 31 - Mississippi Department of Marine Resources officer, from Ocean Springs arrested on child porn charge

BP Thomas B. Manton
© UnknownJanuary 19, 2011 - Dr. Thomas B. Manton former President and CEO of the International Oil Spill Control Corporation - imprisonment and subsequent murder while jailed

BP John P. Wheeler III
© UnknownDecember 31, 2010 - John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and presidential aide and a defense consultant and expert on chemical and biological weapons - was beaten to death in an assault, body was discovered in a Wilmington landfill

BP James Patrick Black
© UnknownNovember 23, 2010 - James Patrick Black, an incident commander for BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill response team, died Tuesday night near Destin, Florida in a small plane crash'

BP Chitra Chaunhan
© UnknownNovember 15, 2010 - Chitra Chaunhan, 33 - Chauhan worked in the USF Center for Biological Defense and Global Health Infectious Disease Research - Found dead in an apparent suicide by cyanide at a Temple Terrace hotel. She leaves behind a husband and a young child.

BP Matthew Simmons
© UnknownAugust 13, 2010 - Matthew Simmons, 67 - Simmons' body was found Sunday night in his hot tub, investigators said. An autopsy by the state medical examiner's office concluded Monday that he died from accidental drowning with heart disease as a contributing factor - "It was painful as can be" to be only insider willing to speak out against the "officials" during the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico

BP Joseph Morrissey
© UnknownApril 6, 2010 - Scientist Joseph Morrissey, 46 - cell biologist and college professor, a near-native Floridian who chose to return to South Florida after studying at elite universities - was fatally shot during what police say was a home invasion robbery.