Amy Eskridge spent the last years of her life trying to bring gravity research into the open. A chemist and entrepreneur with degrees from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, she co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science alongside her father — a retired NASA engineer specialising in plasma physics — with the stated mission of making speculative science accessible to the public rather than leaving it buried in classified programmes. She died by suicide on 11 June 2022, aged 34. Four years later, her father is still fighting a different battle.
Richard Eskridge has publicly dismissed conspiracy theories linking his daughter's death to covert government research, telling NewsNation there was 'nothing suspicious' about it. 'Scientists die also, just like other people,' he said. No credible evidence has emerged to support allegations of foul play, and official accounts confirm the cause of death.
