Don C. Wiley 2001, 57: Harvard biophysicist, HIV/Ebola/flu crystallography. Disappeared from Hernando DeSoto Bridge with car abandoned, keys in ignition, full tank. Body in Mississippi River 5 weeks later. Official: accidental fall.
Vladimir Pasechnik 2001, 64: Russian bioweapons defector who previously weaponized Ebola and Marburg for Biopreparat. Post-defection founded DNA sequencing company. Stroke.
Benito Que, Set Van Nguyen, Robert Schwartz, Hozumi, ~25 others: all died Nov 2001 — Feb 2004 in accidents, murders, or sudden unexplained medical events. All were apex operators in operational biowarfare / DNA sequencing / pathogen weaponization.
Cluster read: temporal concentration in the Amerithrax aftermath. Whether causally connected to the anthrax-attack investigation or reactively framed, the cluster exists within the Amerithrax envelope. Topic-Correlation Signature #3 (Operational Microbiology / Bioweapons — Highly Elevated, Clustered). The observed count within this specific elite stratum significantly exceeds expected actuarial tables.