エライダー・メニンゲン

He was murdered following the demonstration of an "instantaneous kinesis" machine.

Odie Asman was a journalist for the Daily Circus newspaper. He heard about Enoch Drebber's role in the Professor Killings, and his article covering the story was the only one to publicly reveal his name. This led to Drebber being exposed as a grave robber, forcing him to drop out of school and give up his promising career as a scientist.

Asman then began blackmailing one of the coroners of the incident, Courtney Stevens, extorting a fixed sum of money every month in exchange for keeping private her written record of an inaccurate time of death of the apparent "Professor".