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Fossey's murder

In the section on Fossey's murder, is there a reason that the conviction of Wayne McGuire is not included? I plan to add that information unless there is a significant reason.

Reference 16

Can anybody delete the so called reference 16? That's a school essay written by some child and NOT a reference.

Killing gorillas to generate donations??

I really wonder whether some gorillas were killed in order to generate public cash flow to so called wildlife organisations and ORTPN?? In her last years Dian Fossey was able to keep poaching at zero with her petrols and the little money she had. These days the wildlife organisations "caring" for the gorillas have budgets ranging from far over a million dollar a year and the gorillas are still being killed!!! Bill Gates was in the Virungas predicting the gorillas would die out soon. I mean hey...he has money to buy all the adjacent lands, double the size of the national park and provide 24 hour patrol security yet he doesn 't give a darn thing...

Add Official Investigation section

In reading this article the information jumps from the facts about her death to the various theories about her death. However, I think a section should be added between these two that discussess the 'official investigation' including the trial in absentia of Wayne McGuire.