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This is a strange story:
The authorities in Atlanta announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case of a missing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who disappeared about two weeks ago.
The employee, Timothy J. Cunningham, 35, was promoted to commander in the United States Public Health Service in July, his family said. According to the police, he was last seen on Feb. 12.
Their father, Terrell Cunningham, 60, said his sons supervisor told him that Commander Cunningham had reported for work but that he had left midday because he wasnt feeling well.
When the family had difficulty contacting him, they asked a relative to check his home. The house and the garage were locked, and two windows were open. They also discovered their sons wallet, his cellphone, the keys to his car and various forms of identification, including his drivers license and passport. His car was in the garage, Terrell Cunningham said.
Commander Cunninghams family described him as gentle, driven, introspective and meticulous. He has two degrees from Harvards School of Public Health, according to the C.D.C.s website, and has been deployed for public health emergencies such as outbreaks of Ebola and the Zika virus. He was also selected as one of The Atlanta Business Chronicles 40 Under 40 Award winners.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/cdc-employee-missing.html?referer=https://t.co/09gmDb91Pk?amp=1#click=https://t.co/09gmDb91Pk
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Is he dead? Is someone holding him? Did he have access to pathogens? Was he a spy?
I feel like a novelist could start a pretty good book with that headline as the first sentence.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)🦍 🦍 🦍 RUN!!!!
But seriously I hope that find him soon, safe and unharmed.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,189 posts)Turned out she had a brain hemorrhage. She wandered off to a major city, got a room and bought some clothes. She had lost all memory of the last 5 years and she had short term memory loss. They found her by tracking her credit card.
I hope they find no foul play was involved.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)And I wonder if they will find him with 2 shots to the back of the head and call it suicide?
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)evidently the Ebola scare in 2014 was hyped by Russian trolls/bots:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/964567790937083905.html
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)wasn't that 12 Monkeys with Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis?