Overview
- The FBI, which announced Monday it would spearhead a consolidated review, is working with the Energy and Defense Departments and local authorities to check for links among at least 10 to 11 cases since 2022.
- House Oversight leaders James Comer and Eric Burlison have ordered staff briefings from the FBI, DOE, DOD, and NASA by April 27 to assess risks and what the agencies already know.
- NASA says it is cooperating with the probe and reports that nothing related to NASA currently indicates a national security threat.
- Officials say no direct connection has been confirmed, noting the cases span unsolved disappearances, two fatal shootings with suspects identified, a confirmed suicide, and deaths with undisclosed causes.
- The set includes the disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland and former JPL engineer Monica Reza, as well as the killings of Caltech scientist Carl Grillmair and MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro.