Season finale: Michael David Hicks was a 59-year-old NASA JPL physicist and a world-renowned expert on the physical properties of comets and asteroids. He didn't just study space rocks; he worked on the groundbreaking DART Project (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)—the first mission in history to successfully shift the orbit of an asteroid. Michael was literally a pioneer of planetary defense.

Steven Garcia was a man of lists. At the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque, his job was to ensure that every bolt, every circuit, and every firing mechanism was exactly where it was supposed to be.

But on August 28th, 2025, Steven himself was no longer where he was supposed to be. He walked into the Albuquerque sun with a handgun and a head full of inventory logs. No car. No phone pings. Just a vacancy in the chain of custody for some of the most sensitive electronics in the American arsenal.

The mystery of Melissa Casias is unique because, on paper, she wasn't a "scientist." She was an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Her niece and family have even stated that she didn't have high-level security clearance.

However, in the context of the "List of 11," her role is seen by many investigators as a "Gatekeeper" position—someone who might not hold the secrets themselves, but who manages the schedules, emails, and physical access for those who do.