The strange story of Ted Hilk, MIT graduate
“The Kansas native who scored a perfect 36 on his ACT before attending MIT kept to himself.
On March 23, after his parents hadn't heard from him in a month, emergency crews entered his apartment at the family's request.
The 30-year-old was found dead in his bedroom amid pills and pill bottles in advanced decomposition.
Also inside were "several pressure cookers, chemicals, lab equipment, metal drums…pill bottles…chemical bottles…"
It’s an odd case. Lone genius found dead on March 23, 2021, GOV scrubs his online records, then Legacy Media drops official mysterious narrative on June 1, 2021.
Most reports say he had lidocaine & hydrochloroquine in his system, while another reported alcohol & amphetamine.
When he was a math student at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013, Ted Hilk’s online profile included a famous English verse called “The Fifth of November.”
“Remember, remember! The fifth of November. The gunpowder treason and plot,” the poem begins, referring to Guy Fawkes, who was arrested while guarding explosives plotters hid under the House of Lords in London more than 400 years ago.
Hilk’s father Wayne Hilk said his son — found dead Wednesday in a Streeterville apartment where police said they also discovered explosive materials — didn’t find a dark meaning in the verse. It simply reminded him of his birthday, Nov. 5.
“He had a wicked sense of humor. I think a lot of those kids had stuff like that. They were college guys. No bombs, he wanted to help this world, cure cancer, do his research in areas that interested him, and he had many. He built things, he loved tools, he could design and develop as at early age. He was not political, he had no malice in his heart for anyone or anything,” Hilk’s father said in an email.
Still, the verse offers a strange, if unintended, parallel to the mystery surrounding 30-year-old Hilk’s recent death in a seventh-floor downtown apartment at 240 E. Illinois St. His decomposing body was found there Wednesday along with a toxic, volatile chemical – azide — that’s used in bomb triggers and airbags, authorities said.
Hilk’s father traveled from Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, to check on the well-being of his son, contacting Chicago police officers who found the body, CPD Supt. David Brown said. The police bomb unit removed potentially explosive materials from Hilk’s apartment Thursday, officials said. Police say they’re continuing to investigate Hilk’s death and officers returned to the apartment Friday to continue their search for evidence. The results of an autopsy are pending.
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Sounds like another “Ted Kosinski” or “Aaron Swartz.”
Was he a failed MK-Ultra victim?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/3/26/22353078/streeterville-apartment-explosive-materials-chemicals-azide-mit-grad-theodore-hilk
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ted-hilk-clandestine-drug-lab-chicago-high-rise/