http://sf.metblogs.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:59:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/dept-of-schadenfreude-from-the-penthouse-to-the-outhouse/ http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/08/18/dept-of-schadenfreude-from-the-penthouse-to-the-outhouse/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:01:04 +0000 Mark Pritchard http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=4157 A man whom police said was a transient living in his car before he allegedly ran over and killed two elderly women — one of whom he had to reach out his driver’s side window to push off the hood of his car before speeding away — was a former elite Silicon Valley engineer whose team invented a cancer-eradicating x-ray machine. But C. Wayne Cox, now 66, was laid off from that job in 1996 in a re-org, divorced two years later, and fell off the map. The white-haired former engineer was arrested while surfing the web in a Santa Clara public library after the librarian recognised him from news reports.

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