Marrigan
01-09-2010, 09:04 AM
Brilliant and wealthy but a paranoid schizophrenic, Walter Sartory was a prime target. He was abducted, drugged and his body set on fire. And a housekeeper and her son have been charged with murder.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-scientist-murder7-2010jan07,0,2571055.story?page=1
Reporting from Hebron, Ky. - Like the disturbed genius in Hollywood's "A Beautiful Mind," Walter K. Sartory was a brilliant mathematician with a grave mental illness. It made him the perfect victim.
Sartory worked for 30 years at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was built in secret for the atomic bomb project and became America's largest science and energy lab.
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Then last February, old friends phoned police to say the 73-year-old recluse had vanished. Their plea for help came too late.
Sartory had been abducted, drugged and duct-taped to a chair, police later concluded. He surrendered his financial accounts but died after he was denied the medicine that kept his panic attacks at bay. His body was stuffed in a trash can, doused with gasoline and burned.
Pics of the perps
http://www.theindychannel.com/2009/0315/18935835_24180.jpg
Tragic, tragic case. If Walter Sartory's life and death isn't made into a movie, I'll be shocked.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-scientist-murder7-2010jan07,0,2571055.story?page=1
Reporting from Hebron, Ky. - Like the disturbed genius in Hollywood's "A Beautiful Mind," Walter K. Sartory was a brilliant mathematician with a grave mental illness. It made him the perfect victim.
Sartory worked for 30 years at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was built in secret for the atomic bomb project and became America's largest science and energy lab.
(snip)
Then last February, old friends phoned police to say the 73-year-old recluse had vanished. Their plea for help came too late.
Sartory had been abducted, drugged and duct-taped to a chair, police later concluded. He surrendered his financial accounts but died after he was denied the medicine that kept his panic attacks at bay. His body was stuffed in a trash can, doused with gasoline and burned.
Pics of the perps
http://www.theindychannel.com/2009/0315/18935835_24180.jpg
Tragic, tragic case. If Walter Sartory's life and death isn't made into a movie, I'll be shocked.