By all accounts, Daria Shipilova, 28, was a high-flying young scientist, respected by her managers and peers.
She had graduated from her medical university in Irkutsk, Russia, two years ago with a Red Diploma, the equivalent of a first-class degree.
Daria was headhunted for a career at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia, and had started publishing research papers involving study of the bacterium behind the notorious Black Death that so decimated the medieval world.
In her personal life, she was in love and appeared to have her whole life in front of her. Yet on Friday, September 25, she visited her institute
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