
“She said she couldn’t stand the current state of politics and actually had found some job opportunities over there,” he said. Trump’s 2016 election, he said, and mentioned several times that she was considering moving to Australia. She was taken aback by President Donald J.

“She was very friendly and down-to-earth, and I got along with her very well.”

Toebbe on the yearbook and an after-school anthropology club. “You could just tell she was insanely smart,” said Craig Martien, 20, a 2019 graduate of Key School who worked closely with Ms. She was a respected adviser, both formally and informally, at the school. in anthropology from Emory University and her love of knitting. There, according to parents, she was prone to talking about her Ph.D.

Toebbe was a 10-year veteran of the Key School, a progressive private school in Annapolis, where she taught history and English. He continued as a civilian in the Navy after finishing his military service, considered by some a plum assignment for the most talented nuclear physicists. Toebbe was described by acquaintances as a diligent and organized grad student in nuclear physics who was commissioned in the Navy as an officer and expert in submarine propulsion. For now, the big questions surrounding the couple - what country they are accused of trying to sell the nuclear secrets to, and what motivated them to take the risk - remain unanswered.
