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See also: The death of Gareth Williams, a brilliant young mathematician and cryptographer who died in mysterious circumstances in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams



> "mysterious circumstances"

"His decomposing naked remains were found in a red North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom."

The mystery being how he managed to lock the bag from the inside.


It's now accepted that he didn't. In truth, such hypothesis was clearly ludicrous from the start, to anyone with half a brain; it was kept dangling just to distract the public, trying to paint it as "just another homo killed by his own weird fetish".

Either this was a cold-war style assassination, or the guy brought home a stranger too many; we'll likely never know the truth about it anyway.


I don't know if you have any information not in the Wikipedia article but I don't see anything there suggesting suicide was ever considered as a possibility. All is see is the police and coroner saying he was murdered but they don't know who did it.




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