Overview
- Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that the administration is working with the FBI and relevant agencies to review about 10 to 11 cases and will share updates.
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the Department of Energy, including the National Nuclear Security Administration, has an active probe and has not found anything alarming yet.
- House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced a congressional inquiry Sunday and requested briefings from multiple agencies, including the FBI, NASA and the Department of Energy.
- The cases span 2022 to 2026 with varied outcomes, including the shootings of MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro and Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, a self‑inflicted death of Amy Eskridge, and unresolved disappearances linked to Los Alamos, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Kansas City nuclear campus.
- Authorities emphasize that no official link has been established, and the search for retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William ‘Neil’ McCasland, missing since February 27 in New Mexico, remains a key focus.