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Two arrested six years after Mallove murder
Two suspects were arrested Thursday and more arrests are expected in
the long drawn out case of the murder of cold fusion physicist and Free Energy
science pillar, Dr. Eugene Mallove, formerly with MIT, most famous for his
advocacy of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.
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Chad M. Schaffer walks into the
Norwich Police Department Thursday, April 1, 2010, before his arrest for
the 2004 murder of Dr. Eugene Mallove.
Candace L. Foster, 30, inset, was charged with accessory to murder,
first-degree robbery and felony murder.
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Compiled by Sterling
D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Norwich, Connecticut, USA Six years after the brutal murder of the much-revered
cold fusion scientist,
Eugene Mallove, two arrests were made Thursday, and more arrests are expected.
This time, police say these two are without a doubt responsible. (Ref.)
Founder and chief editor of Infinite Energy
Magazine, Mallove was murdered on May 14, 2004, shortly after his first grandchild was born.
Police suspect Mallove had interrupted a robbery in progress or challenged the perpetrator.
On April 1, 2010, Norwich city police arrested a man and a woman and charged them each with murder in the 2004 slaying of prominent New Hampshire physicist Eugene Mallove at a family-owned home in Norwich. Mallove was cleaning out his childhood home in Norwich, which was being used as a rental property. A woman interested in renting the house found his brutally beaten body on the lawn that night.
Autopsy results indicated Mallove died of a crushed trachea. He suffered 32 lacerations to his face caused by a blunt instrument, as well as numerous other cuts and abrasions. He was 56 years old.
Thursday, Police arrested Chad M. Schaffer, 32, and charged him with murder, felony murder and first-degree robbery. He was held on $10 million bond set by New London County State's Attorney's Officer for Part "A," which issued the warrant for his arrest just minutes before police took him into custody.
Candace L. Foster, 30, was taken into custody and was charged with accessory to felony murder, murder and first-degree robbery, Patrol Division Commander Capt. Timothy Menard said Thursday in a press release. Foster's bond, also issued by the State's Attorney's Office, was set at $2.5 million.
NBC CT learned that both Foster and Shaffer knew Dr. Mallove. This was not a
random crime. (Ref.)
Social workers from the Department of Children and Families took the minor children of both of the accused into protective custody.
"I'm incredibly proud of the guys who spent many long hours to bring this case nearly to a close," Menard said. "I'm happy the family will eventually get to learn why this happened. They want to know what happened. They want to know why."
(Ref.)
"We are so happy that there has been a tremendous advance in Gene's murder case," said Christy Frazier, managing editor of Pembroke-based
Infinite Energy Magazine, which Mallove founded in 1995. (Ref.)
Frazier, who worked with Mallove in the six years before he died, says she and other magazine employees have worked hard to carry on Mallove's legacy.
"We have struggled to keep the magazine healthy and the foundation operational as a testament to Gene's life work and commitment to the new energy field," Frazier said. "I believe he would be proud of the work
we have continued to do in his honor."
"We await the day Gene and his family can have true justice with the
reading of a guilty verdict." (ibid)
Mallove was a 1965 graduate of Norwich Free Academy. After leaving Norwich, he earned graduate degrees from MIT and Harvard University and occupied a respected position in the scientific world. He was a diligent pursuer of the cold fusion theory that hydrogen fusion can occur at room temperature rather than at extreme heat and pressure. It should be noted, though, that near the time of his death, he was questioning whether the nuclear phenomenon being observed was actually fusion.
(Ref.)
Mallove wrote three books, including "Fire and Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor," a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize.
Here is Part I of a video featuring the late Eugene Mallove in a 2-hour
interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast
AM, rebroadcast in his honor a few days after he was murdered. In this
excellent video series, user Birdland11
adds photos and video footage from the work of Dr. Mallove.
Schaffer, complying with a request from police, showed up at police headquarters Thursday afternoon. Detectives kept him occupied while others connected to the case tried to get a signed arrest warrant. Police eventually allowed him to leave with a companion at about 6:15 p.m. but arrested him 70 minutes later.
Two men originally charged with killing Mallove had their charges dropped after an investigation and trial that lasted nearly two years unraveled.
At 10:53 p.m. on May 14, 2004, police found Mallove's body near a trash container at the rear of a family-owned home at 119 Salem Turnpike in Norwich. The house has since been demolished in the highway improvement project in that area of the city.
Police found Mallove's minivan in a parking lot at Foxwoods Resort Casino and said several personal items, including his wallet, digital camera and wedding band, had been stolen.
Two days after the murder, New Britain police stopped Joseph Reilly and Gary McAvoy in a vehicle stolen from Groton on the day of the killing. The two men admitted they had been on a crack binge that weekend and had conducted several burglaries and stolen the car.
Both men had blood on their clothing when they were arrested. Norwich police charged the men with Mallove's murder about a year later, but DNA tests revealed that none of the blood came from Mallove.
Menard said Thursday that the latest arrests are the result of a tenacious investigation by the Norwich Police Department and, later, by a task force established in November 2008, comprised of investigators from Norwich police, the New London County State's Attorney's Office, the Connecticut State Police, and the Chief State's Attorney's Office in Rocky Hill. A special arrest team from the Norwich Police Department assisted in Thursday's arrest phase of the investigation.
The task force was created when charges against McAvoy and Reilly were dropped.
Menard said Schaffer was developed as a person of interest early in the nearly six-year investigation. However, he said, it was only recently that there was sufficient evidence to support his arrest.
When the task force was formed, Norwich detective James Curtis and Terence McFadden of the state police were assigned to the investigation full time. As the case continued to expand and additional leads were developed, Norwich Sgt. Corey Poore was added as an additional full-time resource to the investigative team.
In February 2009, Gov. M. Jodi Rell authorized a $50,000 reward in the case. Two months later, the Mallove family and CBS Outdoor Advertising Agency launched a billboard advertising campaign seeking information into Mallove's homicide.
Menard credited Curtis and Poore with developing new evidence, including collecting statements, that led to the arrest warrants being issued.
He said the investigation remains open and ongoing and more arrests are anticipated in the case, therefore no further details of the investigation can be released at this time.
The Norwich Police Department encourages anyone with information pertaining to this incident to contact the Mallove Homicide Task at 860-886-5561, ex. 600.
Here's a video showing Schaffer walking into the Norwich Police Department
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