Professor Seeking Cancer Cure Murdered in Plantation Home

[The Straight Story]

Professor Seeking Cancer Cure Murdered in Plantation Home

​A Nova Southeastern University professor who spent his promising career trying to cure cancer was murdered during an apparent home invasion in his usually quiet Plantation suburb in the middle of the night.

Dr. Joseph Morrissey, 46, was tied up and shot before his house was set on fire by an armed man, according to reports. His wife, Linda, was also tied up but escaped the home with the couple's 5-year-old son. Police say the "robber" is at large, though there is no description at this point other than he is a man.

Morrissey's colleagues are left stunned and full of questions.

"This is just stunning," said David Gazze, a fellow professor at NSU's College of Pharmacy. "We only had him here for a year, but in that time, he was one of the great all-time people. You couldn't ask for a better guy. He was just superhappy, supercompetent, an outstanding communicator, very clear -- we all just loved him, basically. Based on what we know of him, there is no way that anybody could
have any evil intent toward this man. It's just impossible."

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/04/david_morrissey_home_invasion_murder.php

[Joanne98]

1. Hmmmm

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Me too.

[Schema Thing]

2. heh "robber"

[TwilightGardener]

4. The woman was tied up (therefore close contact with the perpetrator), but has no description to

offer whatsoever? Not height, not weight, not race, not voice, not words, not clothing?

[Lance_Boyle]

8. And the perp shoots one tied-up victim but leaves the other two?

This story makes the kind of sense that's not. Hope they have decent detectives on the case.

[TwilightGardener]

11. I also am a little suspicious of the home being set on fire. Is that common practice

among burglars and robbers?

[Lance_Boyle]

14. Not unless they are also arsonists.

I wonder what all was stolen in the "home invasion?"

[DavidDvorkin]

5. I wonder about that state of his marriage

That's my first suspicion.

[BlueIris]

6. Uh, oh.

Time to break out the :tinfoilhat:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Put down the tinfoil, people.

There are thousands and thousands of scientists working on cancer.

[TwilightGardener]

9. I don't think the tinfoil is in regards to the man's line of work--I think it centers on the wife

miraculously escaping being tied up and shot, along with her child.

[Born_A_Truman]

12. Yep!

Bingo!

[CatWoman]

15. Perhaps I watch too much Tru TV

but I think the wife either did it or "arranged" this robbery(?)/arson....

[LeftishBrit]

10. Horrible.

[Jennicut]

13. In the town I grew up in, in Cheshire, CT, there was a terrible home invasion

that left a mother and her two daughters dead. It happened down the street from the house I grew up in and where my parents still live. In that home invasion, two ex-cons also tied up the woman, the kids and their father and then lit the house on fire but the father escaped. The woman was strangled and her children were burned to death. They also forced the woman to get money from her local bank and threatened her that if she did not do it, they would murder her children. That incident reminds me of this one. Wikipedia has some info on the home invasion of the Petit family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_invasion It really hit my old hometown hard.

[malaise]

16. Holy shite

I know several of the professors at Nova College of Pharmacy. There are quite a few Jamaicans on staff. Some were here last month for a wedding reception of one of their colleagues.
Let me call my good friend now.