Ever hear of the curse of the iceman? According recent lure, the Oetzi iceman is killing anyone who researches him. . And the latest news of Tom Loy, a US born molecular archaeologist who was found dead two weeks ago, is adding more fear to that dreaded ‘curse’..Loy was finishing a boy on the Oetzi iceman–and he is the 7th person who studied the Oetzi iceman to die within a year..