{"id":279856,"date":"2026-04-22T06:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279856\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:31:29","slug":"4-of-10-scientists-with-mysterious-deaths-disapperances-from-socal-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279856\/","title":{"rendered":"4 of 10 scientists with mysterious deaths, disapperances from SoCal \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/national-international\/fbi-will-look-connections-deaths-disappearances-scientists\/3878855\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 American scientists<\/a> with ties to U.S. nuclear or space research programs have died or disappeared in recent years, including four with ties to Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it\u2019s looking into the mysterious cases to see if they are connected because at least 10 scientists have vanished or died since 2022. The four individuals with SoCal roots are:<\/p>\n<p>Michael David Hicks \u2013 A scientist and Sunland resident who worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge. He died at the age of 59 on July 30, 2023. A cause of death was not publicly released.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Maiwald \u2013 A scientist at NASA JPL. He died at the age of 61 on July 4, 2024. A cause of death was not made public.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Reza \u2013 A scientist at NASA JPL. She vanished at the age of 60 while on a hike near Mount Waterman in the Angeles National Forest on June 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Grillmair \u2013 An astrophysicist at Caltech. He died at the age of 67 after he was fatally shot on the front porch of his home in the Antelope Valley in February of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The cases have caught the attention of President Donald Trump, who said he\u2019s discussed the scientists in a meeting with other leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope it\u2019s random, but we\u2019re going to know in the next week and a half,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday, according to NBC News. \u201cPretty serious stuff \u2026 hopefully a coincidence, or whatever you want to call it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the FBI confirmed it is investigating the cases and working with \u201cthe Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state and state and local law enforcement partners to find answers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 10 American scientists with ties to U.S. nuclear or space research programs have died or disappeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1055,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-279856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}