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Cosmic Librarian's avatar

I was once an administrative assistant to a bank president. I had to know the pulse of the entire bank. Someone once told me, "Everyone knows your the one the keeps things going and is the gatekeeper." So, yes, I can confirm she was not "just an administrative assistant."

I did not know her, but if you want to commit suicide, and are female, you don't do it the way she did. You certainly don't take the things that she took with her. She might know things that she wishes she didn't know, however. She may have just wanted to get away and clear her head without opinions or interference from others.

One last thing: If you are female and alone, especially in the wilderness, you might as well wear a target on your back. You become someone's 'opportunity'. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

Gehenna's avatar

And the backpack? the time stamp on the death? the proximity of the location to hiking trails? She left on her own with her modus operandi being similar to McCausland - duration of time missing? What woman takes a curling iron to a suicide?

This scenario raises many additional troubling questions

Shortest Circuit's avatar

You generally can't wipe a phone that is linked to a company MDM, only the org admins can. I find it hard to believe LANL just hands out devices that aren't remotely supervised by them, and if they do, that is just horrible security practices. Or did they remote wipe it after she was reported missing?

Jean's avatar

If dark forces want a person dead, they can pretty easily make it all look like suicide. And, even if she did die by suicide, that doesn't mean the dark forces were not involved.

Forget it.'s avatar

You are missing part an angle perhaps. People with financial problems are easy prey for blackmailers. Administrative Assistants have broad access to all information for which they are cleared. And, to do that job in that facility you have to be cleared. Maybe the bill came due, she decided she couldn’t deal and ended it herself. Or, she could not do it and then was killed. And her body definitely could have been planted after the search, not that big a deal.