The Kill List

Ten scientists connected to America’s most classified programs have died or vanished in ten months. No one is investigating all of them.

Her hands were small on the steering wheel.

Monica Jacinto Reza drove Angeles Crest Highway with the windows down and the morning air thinning as the road climbed. She was sixty years old, four feet eleven, a Materials and Processes Engineering Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Before JPL she spent thirty years at Aerojet Rocketdyne, where she …