In 1984, a father of three disappeared while working at a mysterious Cincinnati plant. It turned out he’d met a gruesome fate. Accused Season 3 investigates the mysterious death of David Bocks. Enquirer
If you were to look down at hell and there was a big hole in the ground, that’s what it looked like — a big, open, red hole in the ground. Like a volcano.Longtime employees dispute this memory. It was hot, yes, they said, but not unbearable. Easterling likened it to a sauna – uncomfortable, but certainly not fatal.
The printout of the temperature in the salt vat shows two slight dips around the time that David Bocks went missing.To make matters more complicated, engineer Robert Spenceley told investigators that the time printed on the temperature readouts was about 10 minutes fast, so the double-dip likely began closer to 5 a.m.
He pointed to a video online showing a couple of people tossing "organic waste" into a rumbling volcano. Viewers hear a loud pop, then see a series of violent explosions, one after the other, until the bagged items sink beneath the surface. Alderucci said families left behind by suicide often can't accept the ruling. It's too heartbreaking and guilt-inducing.
David hadn’t wanted to split. He, like most married people, wanted a lifelong union – one much like his parents’. He tried to talk Carline into staying, promising things would get better, but the damage had been irreparable. She still loved him, she said, but it was time to move on. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects how people process their thoughts and interact with reality. As with most disorders, there’s a sizable spectrum on which people might fall. Some people with schizophrenia hallucinate, but the only time David did so was when he was detoxing. Reading David’s psychiatric records, it seems his presented itself through cognitive symptoms – specifically trouble organizing his thoughts.
That was true with the Bocks family, but their doubts were supported by some odd developments in the months after David disappeared. In December 1984, a headline ran on the front page of The Cincinnati Enquirer: NLO Checking Possible Uranium LeakUnacceptably large amounts of uranium dust may have escaped from NLO’s Fernald uranium processing plant in northwest Hamilton County, NLO spokesman George Smith said Monday.
The U.S. government had known for decades that long-term exposure to uranium was detrimental to people’s health. They knew this because uranium miners from the 1950s had higher rates of lung and renal diseases. The story ran in August 1985 and described the death three months earlier of a 33-year-old man named Larry Hicks.
His wife, Diane Hicks, was suddenly widowed with three children. She suspected her otherwise healthy husband's sudden death had to do with the mishap he'd had a few days earlier, but she'd need an expert to test his internal organs to help prove it. In the early 1990s, D.C. Cole had been writing for free for local weeklies and wrote a story about the Hicks case for a now-defunct outlet called Everybody's News.
Cole was a character. He wore a cowboy hat and turquoise jewelry with his biker-themed black T-shirt. Cole was convinced that some other tragedies peripherally connected to the Bocks family might be part of the purported cover-up. He found it odd that David's psychiatrist, Clifford Grulee III, died by suicide Oct. 2, 1985, before he'd been able to testify to what he told police – which was that he didn't believe David was suicidal.
The police file indicates Alderucci circled back to one employee who said he knew that David's death was murder, and he even knew the killer. David's manager at Fernald was a man named Charles Shouse. He happened to be the last man to have reportedly seen David alive. Daniel Arthur’s job was to oversee safety at the Fernald site. Hired in 1984, he worked as “lead auditor,” charged with analyzing the operation and documenting any deficiencies.
“To give you an idea of the situation as it stood on January 1st, 1986, 50% – one out of two of all maintenance procedures – had not been reviewed or revised since 1960. That is 26 years,” he said during a congressional hearing in April 1987. Plutonium is highly radioactive. DOE regulations specified that nothing more than 10 parts per billion plutonium was to be processed without special permission. Fernald had no such permission, yet processedArthur called for new procedures. Workers should not only be informed that they were dealing with plutonium, but they also should wear respirators and have regular urinalyses. His bosses told him there was no time to adopt new safety protocols.
Using outdated alarm and messaging systems in violation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. “I said, ‘Oh, hell no.’ You stay the hell out of this building, this building, this building,” Karnes said, rattling off spots he considered “hotter than firecrackers.” As Larry Hicks' 1985 death showed, workers could literally be doused in uranium particles and managers would insist they were fine.
Her landlord tried to calm her fears, but Crawford asked both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Department of Health to test her well and provide second opinions. Gene Branham, president of the Fernald Atomic Trades & Labor Council, supported Arthur in the 1987 congressional hearing. “For the last quarter of a century that I have been actively involved, the union has been treated like poor kin, a stepchild or what have you,” he told lawmakers. “We have normally sat on the back porch and while these fellows have sat out front and eaten the roasting ears and passed the corn cobs back to us. That situation is about to change, we hope.
A sign paying homage to the 'First Link' leads to the drive of the Fernald Nature Preserve. The preserve was once the home to former Cold War-era Fernald Feed Materials Production Center located in Hamilton County, Ohio.
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