The New Zealand Investigation of Rodney's Methanol Poisoning

New Zealand investigators wrap up their investigation and they maintain that the NSF and Raytheon were completely uncooperative throughout. It's still unclear why the NSF acted the way it did, but most people think it was to avoid the potential PR fallout of losing an accomplished astrophysicist in such a senseless way. In September 2008, over eight years after Rodney died, New Zealand's investigation finally reaches a conclusion. Unsurprisingly, it determines that he likely ingested the methanol one to two days before he died. But it stopped short of determining how it wound up in his system.