The search for clues in the shocking disappearance of Timothy Cunningham has turned up some strange loose ends. Cunningham, 35, is an epidemic intelligence officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta who went home sick on February 12 and has been missing since that date.
In the days following Cunningham’s mysterious disappearance, a $10,000 reward was offered by Atlanta police for information on his whereabouts or intel that could lead to any criminal arrests. A neighbor revealed an odd and startling detail about the Morehouse graduate, according to CBS News.
“He told my husband to tell his wife – me – to erase his cellphone number from my cellphone,” Viviana Tory, Cunningham’s next-door neighbor, said.
Conspiracy theorists have also chimed in with ideas on how and why the scientist vanished without nearly a trace. The doctor, who went to Harvard as well as Morehouse, had worked on a study about the disparities in death rates among Blacks that was published last May.
The study was connected to a 1996 ban by the NRA against the CDC examining gun violence as a crisis, according to social media users who pointed out that Cunningham’s bizarre disappearance happened after this controversial publication.
In addition, Internet rumors about Cunningham being a whistle-blower who had cautioned the public about the flu shot being responsible for this year’s deadly flu season have been touted as a possible reason for his disappearance, a claim that his father, Terrell Cunningham confirmed as false to CNN.
Though conspiracy theories are running rampant (Cunningham’s family has asked for speculation to stop on a Facebook page trying t help locate him) his parents have come up short as to why their son has gone missing. As they continue to hang posters throughout Cunningham’s neighborhood and try to get the word out, the mystery surrounding their son’s death is overwhelming.
“Everything about this disappearance is unusual,” says his father, who drove from Maryland to Georgia after not hearing from his son for two days, told CNN.
The family discovered Cunningham’s wallet, car and dog left behind in his Atlanta home, where he lives alone. Police have turned up nothing yet after having searched the woods near his residence.
No foul play is suspected, though authorities are “exploring all possibilities,” CBS reported.
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Can You Help Find Timothy Cunningham? What We Know About Missing CDC Employee was originally published on newsone.com
