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
