Editing Steven Hatfill (section)

==Early life==
Hatfill was born in [[Saint Louis, Missouri]], and graduated from [[Mattoon High School|Mattoon Senior High School]], [[Mattoon, Illinois]] (1971), and [[Southwestern College (Kansas)|Southwestern College]] in [[Winfield, Kansas]] (1975), where he studied [[biology]].

Hatfill was enlisted as a [[private (rank)|private]] in the [[U.S. Army]] from 1975 to 1977.<ref>Cooper, Simon [http://luigiwarren.blogspot.com/2005/12/just-some-*******-who-has-too-much-to.html "The Lesson of Steve Hatfill"], [[Seed (magazine)|''Seed'' magazine]], May/June 2003.</ref> (In 1999, during an interview with a journalist, he claimed to have been a "captain in the [[U.S. Army Special Forces|U.S. Special Forces]]", but a subsequent investigation revealed that, according to the Army, he had never served with the Special Forces.<ref>[[Richard Preston|Preston, Richard]] (2002), ''[[The Demon in the Freezer]]'', New York: Random House, pp. 206–07.</ref>) Following his Army discharge, Hatfill qualified and worked as a [[Medical Laboratory Scientist|medical laboratory technician]], but soon resolved to become a doctor. He worked as a medical missionary in Kapanga, Zaire under a mentor, Dr. [[Glenn Eschtruth]], who was murdered there in 1977. A brief marriage, from 1976 to 1978, to Eschtruth's daughter, Caroline Ruth Eschtruth, produced one daughter.