He had just published his latest book on Neo-NeoDarwinian Evolution, an excerpt of who’s crumpled (by whom?) manuscript is preserved for posterity below:

We know only bits and pieces of what occurred before Goop was scheduled to depart on a book tour. His security cameras did record a late night visitor to his home.

Subsequently, Goop’s battered, bullet-ridden body was discovered on the floor of his study. 

An enticing clue at the crime scene was the discovery of glass mounted oil portrait of Goop and a man who appeared to be the same as the late night visitor caught by the security camera, professional colleague and reputed friend Richard Dawkings. Two facts were suggestive. The painting included the butt of a revolver, and the glass over the painting had been hit, apparently, by one of the bullets that passed through Goop’s head. Coincidence or intent?

in the end there was insufficient evidence to bring a case against the prime suspect Dawkings, who insisted from first to last he had nothing to do with the murder.

There was some popular resistance to the police’s failure to make an arrest, most notably in the academic community. The occasion of the memorial service for Goop at Harvard, his alma mater, brought forth some angry public denunciations of Dawkings by name…

And that, sadly, is where the matter rests to this day.