Autopsy reveals chilling new details in mysterious death of missing scientist found skeletonized in the woods

Shocking new details have emerged concerning the mysterious disappearance and death of a New Mexico woman who worked at a secretive US nuclear lab.

Authorities have revealed that Melissa Casias, whose body was discovered on May 28, was shot in the head at or around the time of her death, but it remains unclear if this was murder or a suicide. Her body was found well after her death.

Casias, an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, vanished without a trace on June 26, 2025 after strangely walking out of her home without any identification, keys or way of contacting her.

Her skeletal remains were discovered 11 months later in Carson National Forest, propped up against a tree with a handgun near the body.

The official autopsy noted that Casias had been shot through the base of the skull, with the bullet exiting through the left side of her head. However, the Office of the Medical Investigator could not say if this wound was what killed the 53-year-old.

Due to the amount of decomposition of Casias’s remains when she was found, the medical examiner could only say that the gunshot occurred ‘perimortem,’ meaning it took place around the time she died but may not have been the actual cause.

The medical examiner’s report added that the woman’s left hand and left leg were both found about 20 feet away from the body and showed signs of being attacked by wildlife who likely scavenged through the remains after death.

While the medical examiner could not tell if Casias’s death was a suicide or involved foul play, an anonymous law enforcement source told the Daily Mail the new details in the case point to murder.

The newly released autopsy noted that the bullet was fired into the right side of Casias’s cranial base, hitting the bottom of the skull near the large hole where the spinal cord connects to the brain.

It also damaged the topmost neck bone, known as the C1 vertebra, before exiting through the left side of the head, through the flat, thin part of the temple.

‘There’s no way this was suicide, not from that angle,’ the law enforcement source claimed, noting the reported position of the bullet when it entered Casias’s skull. 

The source believed that, if Casias was really holding the handgun at that angle, the gun would have recoiled, causing the bullet to change direction instead of passing straight through her skull.

‘The kickback would have made the gun go straight up. That’s ridiculous. She was murdered,’ the source alleged.

Officially, the medical examiner has labeled Casias’s cause of death as ‘undetermined,’ adding that the autopsy could not even determine how close the gun was to the nuclear lab worker’s head when it was fired.

New Mexico State Police told the Daily Mail that their investigation is still active, but did not reveal if investigators have interviewed any new suspects in the case.

Casias’ husband, Mark, was one of the last people to see his wife alive in 2025, when he was dropped off at LANL for work on the morning of her disappearance.

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A Flock Camera Flagged Her Car in a Homicide by Mistake. Police Pulled Her Over at Gunpoint Twice

A Wisconsin woman was stopped by police with guns drawn twice in one week after an automated license plate camera wrongly linked her car to a Milwaukee homicide. Milwaukee police say the alert should have been deleted days earlier, but a staffer never cleared it.

According to Local 12, Amber Newell was driving on I-94 in Brookfield, west of Milwaukee, on the afternoon of August 6 when a Flock camera flagged her vehicle as connected to a homicide investigation. FOX6 Milwaukee reported that video from the interstate showed multiple officers with guns drawn and a passenger sticking their hands out the window. After Brookfield officers reached out to the Milwaukee Police Department to verify the alert, MPD responded that the vehicle and its occupants were no longer of interest, and the people were let go. Newell told FOX6 the same thing had happened to her earlier that week.

The issue was not the camera reading her plate wrong. Milwaukee police said this was a personnel problem, not a Flock problem: staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system after it was no longer needed. Brookfield Police Chief Christopher Garcia has defended the stop, and Milwaukee police back him up, saying his officers acted on the information they had. Newell described the fear in plain terms. “I haven’t been asleep since this has happened,” she said. “Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is guns.” She also said her young daughter is now afraid to ride in the car.

Flock Safety operates a network of roughly 120,000 cameras across the country, and the system works by photographing plates, timestamping them, logging a location, and checking each read against police hotlists. When a plate matches, officers get an alert. That means your car’s movements can land in a searchable database whether or not you are suspected of anything, and the accuracy of any given stop depends entirely on whether the underlying list is correct and current.

The louder story this year has been deliberate abuse. Milwaukee alone has seen two officers charged: Josue Ayala, who prosecutors say searched a partner’s plate and that partner’s ex nearly 200 times, and internal affairs detective Tehrangi Chapman, who was later charged after allegedly misusing the same system he was assigned to investigate. The Institute for Justice has documented at least a couple dozen cases nationwide of officers using plate readers to track romantic interests, and a Washington Post review found at least 50 officers accused of misusing these systems. Cities are reacting. Chandler, Arizona pulled 40 Flock cameras this month after an audit turned up an anomaly it could not explain through normal police work.

What happened to Newell is different from stalking, but it comes from the same weak point: an audit trail and an accuracy check only work if a person is actually watching them. A separate running tally of reported Flock errors found drivers who were repeatedly stopped after their own plates were mistakenly added to hotlists, and one man who spent 13 days in jail after a camera capture misidentified his car. Flock has said its cameras are about 99% accurate, but at tens of billions of reads a month, even a tiny error rate becomes a steady stream of real people staring down real guns. 

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El-Sayed’s ‘Queer Muslim’ and Pro-Palestinian Half-Sister Causing Headaches for the Campaign

Eman Abdelhadi, half-sister of Michigan’s Democratic candidate for Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, is a hater.

She hates America. She hates white people. She hates the University of Chicago, where she’s an associate professor in the school’s Department of Comparative Human Development. She hates Democratic moderates. 

She also hates ICE with the virulence of a true believer and the ignorance of a left-wing radical. During protests against ICE performing its lawful function of enforcing immigration law in a suburb of Chicago, she helped instigate a riot and, during the melee, spit on a state trooper and then resisted arrest.

Before her arrest at the ICE riot in July 2025, Abdelhadi made headlines for cursing out her employer at the Socialism 2025 conference. The conference describes itself as bringing thousands of “radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, abolition, Marxism, decolonization, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.” 

Abdelhadi had some very nasty things to say about the University of Chicago.

“F**k the University of Chicago, it’s evil, you know it’s a colonial landlord. Like, why would I put any of my political energy into this space? I kind of had a little bit of disdain for people who spent their time doing that,” she said.

So why in the wide, wide world of sports is she working there?

“Turns out, I work at one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago. I work at a place that is a landlord, a healthcare provider, a police force, f**k that s**t, but they are, and a place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize… actually, this is where I need to build power. That’s possible structural leverage,” she said.

Mkay. So why are you working there?

It gets much weirder. Washington Free Beacon reports Abdelhadi is the author of the “funky, commie, queer novel” Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune alongside her “bestie,” coauthor M.E. O’Brien, a “trans communist” who wrote the 2023 book Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care.

Eeek.

“The novel is a fictionalized ‘oral history’ of ‘sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes’ who band together to create a ‘radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.'” 

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YouTube Children’s Host ‘Ms. Rachel’ Now Pushing Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow

The last time we checked in on popular YouTube children’s host ‘Ms. Rachel’ it was because it had been reported that she donated thousands of dollars to the campaign of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

Now she is calling for slavery reparations.

It’s starting to look like this woman is a kind of radical leftist. What other conclusion could one reach?

Breitbart News reports:

Children’s YouTube, Netflix Star Ms. Rachel Pushes Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow Laws

Children’s YouTube and Netflix star Ms. Rachel has added support for reparations over slavery and Jim Crow Laws to her growing catalogue of left-wing causes, taking her latest stance via an Instagram post to her five million-plus followers.

Ms. Rachel, AKA Rachel Accurso, took an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2014 essay The Case for Reparations to illustrate the need to “reckon” with America’s history of slavery.

“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole,” the quote read.

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist whose essay “The Case for Reparations” argued “American prosperity was ill-gotten” and the nation needs to reconcile with its past beyond handing out money.

Neither Coates nor Ms. Rachel seem to care to acknowledge how both slavery and Jim Crow Laws were Democrat Party constructs.

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Mamdani Wanted to Defund Police Until His Wife Wanted NYPD Protection

The dispute began when City Hall spokesperson Dora Pekec said Duwaji’s security detail would join her on a family trip to Syria and Lebanon, “upon the strong recommendation of the NYPD.” That statement gave the impression that an internal protective decision had already been made and that the trip was moving forward with police coverage attached. Hours later, the NYPD publicly undercut that account, saying it does not send officers to countries with Level 4 travel advisories for discretionary reasons and that this was not an investigative trip, so NYPD personnel would not be traveling there for it.

That is the heart of the matter. The two statements do not merely differ in tone; they conflict on the basic operational question of whether officers were actually expected to accompany the mayor’s wife. In coverage of the dispute, reporters described it as a clash between City Hall and the department over whether taxpayer-funded protection would be provided for a private overseas trip. The travel itself was described as beginning in mid-September, and the destinations were Syria and Lebanon, both of which are under U.S. State Department Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisories.

In practical terms, this kind of episode usually emerges from the gap between a preliminary protective conversation and a formal deployment order. A mayoral office may speak as if an arrangement is settled once a recommendation is received; a police department may still regard the matter as unresolved until assignment and authorization are complete. The public, meanwhile, sees only the announcement and the denial. That is why these episodes so often become fights over credibility rather than administrative sequence.

Mamdani’s later explanation was that the clash stemmed from a miscommunication. He said the trip would proceed without any NYPD detail. That clarification narrows the issue but does not fully reconstruct the chain of events. The public record, as reported, does not show a signed approval, a formal assignment, or a memo indicating exactly who recommended what and when. What it does show is enough to establish that City Hall initially spoke as though protection was in place, and the NYPD then rejected that implication in public.

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Insanity! Oregon State Requires Two Woke Courses Examining ‘Systems of Oppression’

In the latest college madness Campus Reform is reporting “Oregon State University requires undergraduate students who enrolled in summer 2025 or later to complete two “Difference, Power & Oppression” (DPO) courses as part of its Core Education curriculum.”

In other words, as far as Oregon State is concerned, they remain a woke outpost of political correctness.

This insane course is focused on WOKE indoctrination.

“In addition to “difference, power, and oppression,” participants in the DPO Academy learn about “feminist and critical pedagogies” and “fundamentals of curriculum transformation.”

Its yet to be explained how oppression and feminist studies help advance a student’s education and prepare them for the workforce.

The reason they give for requiring these courses is even more outrageous.

“The inequitable distribution of social, economic, and political power in the United States and globally is sustained through systems of oppression, which represent a variety of discriminatory institutional beliefs and practices,” the description states. “These beliefs and practices obscure the origins and operations of systemic oppression in daily life, such that this inequitable power distribution is assumed to be the natural order.”

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‘Parents Should Not Need a Chemistry Degree’: RFK Jr. Proposes Key Food Policy Reforms

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday unveiled two food policy proposals aimed at increasing safety and transparency in the nation’s food supply.

The agency proposed requiring food manufacturers to notify the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whenever they determine that an ingredient added to human or animal food is “generally recognized as safe” or GRAS.

Today, companies can make those decisions without telling regulators.

HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) also submitted the federal government’s first proposed definition of ultraprocessed foods for final review by the FDA — a move officials said could eventually shape nutrition research, food labeling, dietary guidelines and other policies affecting what Americans buy and eat.

Officials did not release the definition or say when it would become public.

Food policy reform advocates called both proposals important first steps. However, they cautioned that the changes would not stop companies from introducing new ingredients or fully address the thousands of additives already in the food supply.

Speaking at a news conference Monday, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the proposals are designed to make it easier for people to understand what is in their food.

“Parents should not need a chemistry degree to understand what their children are eating,” he said. “Americans deserve real transparency. They deserve real food.”

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Ukrainian Prosecutor Joe Biden FIRED for Investigating Hunter’s Burisma Just Exposed $350 BILLION in U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Meant for Ukraine Going Straight to Globalist Networks

Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the official Joe Biden publicly threatened and forced out of office in 2016, claims in his book Biden’s Corruption and War: The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor that hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars connected to Ukraine were recycled through political interests and “globalist networks.”

According to a Blaze Media column citing Shokin’s first-person account, massive sums of U.S. aid intended for Ukraine were recycled through political and globalist networks.

He alleges $350 billion in American taxpayer money was diverted into these opaque channels amid the chaos of war. Arms deals were tainted by corruption.

Wartime disorder allegedly facilitated trafficking of Ukrainian women and children. The book paints the conflict itself as a vehicle for enrichment and influence far beyond the battlefield.

Shokin was the prosecutor general investigating Mykola Zlochevsky and Burisma Holdings, the same corrupt energy company that put Hunter Biden on its board and paid him an eye-watering salary for “expertise” he didn’t have.

Shokin says his office was moving against the company, seizing assets, and getting uncomfortably close to the Biden family connections. That’s when the pressure campaign from Washington intensified.

Joe Biden later famously boasted about it on video: he told Ukrainian officials they weren’t getting the billion dollars unless the prosecutor was gone. “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired.”

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Montreal woman suffers concussion after anarchists attack wrong home in ‘war on AI’

A Montreal woman suffered a concussion after far-left activists allegedly attacked her Rosemont home while apparently believing they were targeting the residence of an artificial intelligence entrepreneur.

According to La Presse, the incident occurred during the night of July 29, when an individual armed with a hammer smashed the glass of the home’s front door and damaged a window.

There was one rather significant problem with the alleged political attack: they had the wrong resident.

The AI entrepreneur apparently being targeted had moved out of the property roughly a year earlier.

The attack was claimed in a statement signed by a group calling itself the “Revolutionary Anarchist Liberation Front,” which purported to “declare war on AI.” A video accompanying the statement reportedly showed an individual smashing the glass of the front door with a hammer.

Instead, the current resident was left dealing with the consequences.

According to La Presse, the woman came downstairs after hearing the commotion and was struck in the head when a rock was thrown through a window. She was later diagnosed with a concussion.

The intended target was reportedly the founder of a Montreal artificial intelligence startup who had previously lived at the address.

Montreal police are investigating the incident, while La Presse reported the file has been transferred to the SPVM’s hate crimes and incidents unit.

The case appears to be a politically motivated attack aimed at the technology industry that managed to injure someone who had nothing to do with the intended target.

The self-described revolutionaries may have declared war on artificial intelligence. Their intelligence on the address, however, was apparently about a year out of date.

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Crazy Obama Judge Lifts Block on Termination of TPS For Somalis After Ogles Files Articles of Impeachment

On Friday, US District Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, lifted her block on the termination for Somalia Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Burroughs’ administrative stay had been in place for 50 days! She dragged her feet on issuing a real order.

Earlier Friday, DHS General Counsel James Percival blasted Judge Burroughs for defying the US Supreme Court.

“For 50 days, Allison Burroughs has maintained her unreasoned “administrative stay” of our termination of Somalia TPS, notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s decision. This “administrative stay”—to the extent it is lawful at all—is supposed to be quickly followed by a real order. Failure to issue such an order is deliberate sabotage, designed to infringe on the executive branch but without issuing a clear and appealable order. After significant prodding, Judge Burroughs promised to issue that order by “EARLY” this week. It is now Friday. The only explanation for this is cynical gamesmanship by a politically motivated district judge,” James Percival said.

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