The Mallove Case  

There has always a strong thread of conspiracy theory woven through the "Free Energy" world - fed by a steady flow of strange deaths amongst free energy proponents. One recent (unsolved) case involved Eugene Mallove of the New Energy Foundation - Mallove slaying: ‘Unanswered questions’ set suspects free.

More than three years after their arrests, a Superior Court judge Thursday dismissed charges against the two suspects in a 2004 Norwich slaying, leaving Norwich police with a four-year-old unsolved murder. ...

Joseph Reilly, 42, and Gary McAvoy, 46, had been charged with murder in 2005 by Norwich police in the brutal May 14, 2004, beating death of Eugene Mallove, 56, a scientist and writer from New Hampshire. Mallove was found outside his childhood home at 119 Salem Turnpike. His clothing was bloodied and disheveled, indicating a violent struggle. ...

Eugene Mallove was a Norwich Free Academy graduate who became the chief science writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later dedicated much of his work to cold fusion and promoted experimentation in the field of alternative energy sources.

He founded the nonprofit New Energy Foundation in New Hampshire and published the magazine Infinite Energy, publicizing the work of others seeking alternative energy sources. He was cleaning out his rental property at the time of his death.

Members of the New Energy Foundation were astonished by the developments in the case, general manager Christy L. Frazier said Thursday. “Those who loved Gene Mallove will continue to hope that the individual(s) responsible for his death are brought to justice,” Frazier said.