Is there a conspiracy?

Last month a retired professor - a protein researcher - was found murdered in a parking garage not all that far from where I live.He was stabbed in the chest multiple times, stuffed in the trunk of his Honda, which was then set on fire. This is not a common way for people to die in Columbia, so naturally it caused some interest in the community.But it turns out that well over 40 microbiologists, immunologists, and protein researchers have been killed in the past few years, most in very alarming circumstances. A webpage details them: www.stevequayle.comNow, this is also the same webpage that details how giants are going to come back from the mists of legend, with dire consequences for us all, so I'm not too interested in his conclusions. But something is going on. Folks just aren't stabbed and immolated on a regular basis in a college town where people don't even lock their car doors, especially not research biochemists.But I was curious to know what others might be able to dig up. Is this a statistically significant trend, or just cherry-picking data?

Yes, which is what I was hoping someone could analyze. What are the odds that this is simply a random distribution of tragedy? We was a retired professor, but I believe that he was an active researcher. But even were he not, maybe he was simply targeted because of what he knew, or his expertise. Maybe the conspiracy is to eliminate the best minds in micobiology, leaving us unprepared for a massive attack by some bioengineered plague. I don't know.Cars don't just start on fire when you drop a match on the upholstery. If Im was burned in his car then there must have been an accelerant, which means the killer planned ahead, which means Im was assassinated.

That's what I was hoping someone could do; perform a statistical analysis that compared the odds of dying in these ways with the odds of being a research microbiologist, protein chemist, or epidemiologist. Or just give me an indication that random chance is more likely an explanation than the targeted elimination of scientists.This is a town where people don't lock their car doors in some places. The fact that a research chemist in a good part of town was stabbed to death and immolated can't, to my mind, be explained as simple bad luck. In regards to the local murder, all I really have to do on are the leaflets the police have been handing out; it says that eyewitnesses saw a man leave the scene in a hoodie and a painter's mask, possibly carrying a large container, like a gas can.