A Japanese Nobel Prize winner's wife, said to be suffering from Parkinson's disease, was found dead at an Illinois landfill hours after the couple were reported missing.

The body of Sumire Negishi, 80, was spotted in Rockford on Tuesday, the Ogle County Sheriff's Office said.

Her husband, Purdue University chemistry professor Ei-ichi Negishi, 82, was found walking nearby and was taken to the hospital, CNN reported on Thursday.

The couple lived in West Lafayette, Indiana, and had been reported missing along with their car since Monday, the police said.

The case was under investigation, the sheriff's office said, but no foul play was suspected.

Ei-ichi Negishi shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2010 with two other professors "for palladium-catalysed cross couplings in organic synthesis."

Purdue president Mitch Daniels mourned the loss of Sumire Negishi. "Throughout a lifetime of love and loyalty, she supported her husband in a career of tremendous contributions to science and to the teaching and training of subsequent generations of top scientists," Daniels said in a statement.

The family said Negishi had been "near the end of her battle with Parkinson's (disease)".

http:// www.firstpost.com/world/japanese-nobel-prize-winner-ei-ichi-negishi-hospitalised-wife-found-dead-in-us-4391725.html

Published Date: Mar 15, 2018 16:46 PM

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he's not dead, his wife is

CAMANO ISLAND, WA (KOMO/CNN) - Police in Washington are searching for a person of interest in the death of a woman whose decapitated body was discovered over the weekend.

The woman was found near a hillside bunker, filled with firearms and ammunition. A local paper described the bunker as “survivalist,” reporting it was filled with a “cache of supplies, firearms and ammunition.”

Police are still searching for 34-year-old Jacob Gonzales, a man police have identified as a “person of interest” in the death of 26-year-old Katherine Cunningham. Investigators believe the two may have been living on the property.

The case has rattled the quiet Camano Island community.

Neighbor David Gustafson called it "an eerie feeling knowing this woman was being murdered pretty much in my back yard."

Authorities said Gonzales may be driving a green 1990 Mitsubishi Montero with Washington plates “AYE2639.”

“As soon as I saw that green Mitsubishi on the news today, I was like. ‘Oh, yeah I've seen that go by my house quite often,’" Gustafson said.

Until someone is arrested, Gustafson said he won't let his kids play outside.

He said he installed a security camera on his property in the aftermath to keep watch.

“I’m never going to forget what happened behind my house. I mean, that's never going to go away," he said.

Authorities say the items found in the bunker were seized.

http:// www.wafb.com/story/37681538/police-find-decapitated-woman-near-bunker-searching-for-person-of-interest