331. The Cold Fusion Murder Conspiracy - Eugene Mallove

So today, we are gonna take a trip to New England, to the town of Bow, New Hampshire.

This is where, in 2004, 56-year-old Eugene Molavv is just trying to get by.

He wants to be a good husband and dad and accomplish some of his lingering dreams.

Again, 2004.

Eugene, or Gene, as his family and friends called him, grew up 150 miles away in Norwich, Connecticut, in a house that Eugene himself now owned and was using as a rental property.

You know, I really wanna go to Connecticut or, like, the Virginias.

Me too.

The Virginias.

The, the Carolinas.

That's what I meant-

I wanna do the Carolinas

...

the Carolinas, not the Virginias.

I feel like you can't, you can't find that here.

No, not really.

Not in the west.

Maybe, like, northern California but... or Oregon and Washington, I guess.

We got a mountain or two.

Anyways.

This house that he grew up in that he now owned and rented out had a special place in Gene's heart.

It was where he spent his nights as a young boy, looking up at the stars and asking big questions about the universe.

Now, ever since he was little, Gene always had a love for science fiction novels and the idea of space exploration And as he got older, that turned into bigger concepts like what is his place in this very vast universe? But it was clear to everyone who knew Gene in his early years, he was probably gonna end up being someone special.

He was a genius.

He understood science and astronomy in a way that other people couldn't, and this was a skill that actually later got him into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, in Boston.

That's so cool.