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Mystery death of MIT couple shocks Boston family
Melanie Hines, a prodigy on track to a MIT political science PhD, and her husband Samuel Amponsah were found dead in their Boston home with their infant daughter Rebekah. Toxicology ruled out poison. investigators cite malnutrition and cold exposure in an unheated house. Friends speculate Sam’s religious fervor and paranoia worsened, leading to a lingering, undetermined sequence of events. The tragedy ends a life of promise and raises questions about cause and timing.
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New York
Trinity College
Hartford
Africa
Melanie
Samuel Ampotisah
Rebekah
Amponsah
Brian Blackbourne
Massachusetts
Dr. Blackbourne
Sam
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Ghana
MIT
United States
Cornell
Trinity
National Science Foundation
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
Cambridge
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Melenie
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Boston
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Jacob
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Willard Johnson
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Ms. Archer
Ohio
Christopher
Jocelyn