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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

FBI PROBES SPACE SCIENTISTS DEAD, MISSING, TOLL RISES TO 16

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The number of government scientists either missing or mysteriously dead is now 16.  The FBI and White House are reviewing the series of deaths and disappearances looking for connection between the individuals with ties to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and defense-related fields. We have been able establish the fact that  several victims vanished while hiking or walking, often leaving behind essential items like phone or ID.

Are these individual disappearances and deaths a strange coincidence or a wild conspiracy theory? 

Joining Nancy Grace today: 

  • Luis Elizondo - former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, former Director Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and UFO whistleblower 
  • Franc Milburn  - Former British Intelligence Officer, friend of Amy Eskridge 
    Brian Fitzgibbons  - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security,  website: www.uspasecurity.com, Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security
  • Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue”, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
  • Lauren Conlin- Reporter, Los Angeles Magazine - Podcaster/Reporter/ Co-Host of "PopCrimeTV" on YouTube, Website: www.popcrime.tv and primetimecrimeshow.com,             X- @Conlin_Lauren, Instagram: @LaurenEmilyConlin, YouTube: @PopCrimeTV 
  • Dave Mack  - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories' 

 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:03.4

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:11.3

The FBI probing space scientists either dead or missing, and at this hour, the toll has risen to 16. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being

0:24.8

with us. A NASA nuclear engineer burned beyond recognition. He left his wallet behind, he left his

0:33.8

phone behind, and then he drove his Tesla to the Huntsville Airport.

0:38.8

And then randomly, for no reason that we can figure out, crashed his Tesla directly into a

0:45.2

guardrail, and the body inside of it was unrecognizable.

0:49.3

Tonight, the toll rising to 16, 16 space scientists either dead or missing?

0:57.6

The 17th American scientist.

1:00.1

Her name is Ingrid Colleen Lane and she went missing on a solo hike in New Mexico.

1:04.0

She vanished on state route 144.

1:06.5

Her black 2019 Subaru found 9,100 feet in elevation and out of cell rain.

1:12.3

The sheriff's department said that a large boulder rock crashed through the rear hatch window.

1:17.6

The front bumper of the car showed significant collision damage that has never been accounted for in any official report.

1:24.4

Three laptops were inside, an unactivated burner phone, and her keys were still

1:28.9

in the ignition. Okay, wait a minute. Now I'm hearing that a female space scientist died

1:35.5

after a boulder fell on her car. What's the odds of that happening? That's from a friend I found on Insta, Mary C2HK.

1:46.7

But what I don't get straight out to Lauren Conlon joining us,

1:51.1

investigative reporter with the Los Angeles LA Magazine, star of Pop Crime TV,

1:56.7

co-host.

1:57.5

You can find her at Pop Crime TV.

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