On June 11, 2022, Amy Eskridge, a 34-year-old Huntsville, Alabama resident and the president and CEO of the Institute of Exotic Science, was found dead by a Scot wound. Officially labeled as a suicide, her death has since become a lightning rod for conspiracy theories, in which many wondered whether her groundbreaking work in anti-wartot investigation made her a target of powerful forces that were determined to silence her. As an investigative journalist I have studied the web of evidence, speculation and horrifying messages about the downfall of Eskridge to separate the fact of fiction in this spooky case. A prodigy in Rocket City born on September …