Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Growup To Be Techies

Peter Peapell was a scientist at the Royal College of Military Science, testing titanium for resistance to explosives.

RIP:  February 1987 in his garage, on his back, his mouth directed toward the exhaust pipe; the engine running. He was 46.

David Sands was a senior scientist employed by a sister company of Marconi, Easams of Camberley, Surrey, England.

RIP:  March 1987 when he made a U-turn on a divided highway and crashed full speed into a vacant cafeteria. He was 37.

George Kountis was a Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic.

RIP;  April 1987,  he drowned in his upturned car in the Mersey River. No age available.

Shani Warren was not a techie, but worked as a personal assistant at tech employer Micro Scope, which, shortly after her death, was absorbed by GEC Marconi.

RIP:  April 1987 from drowning in 18 inches of water in Lake Taplow, gagged, feet tied with rope and hands tied behind her back with spark plug cables and a noose around her neck. The local coroner concluded she had gagged herself, tied her own hands behind her back with the cables, tied her own feet and hopped to the lake on stiletto heels in willful suicide. She was 26.

Mark Wisner was a Software Engineer at the British  Ministery of Defense.

RIP:  April 1987 by suffocation due to several feet of plastic wrap around his face and  a plastic sack over her head. He was 24.

RIP:  May 1987 when he crashed his car through a barrier in Dorset. He was 22.

Russell Smith was a laboratory technician employed by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire.

RIP:  January 1988 when he fell off a cliff at Boscastle in Cornwall. He was 23.

Trevor Knight was a computer engineer with Marconi Space and Defense Systems.

RIP:  March 1988 at his home and in his car, a hose connected to the exhaust. He was 52.

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