Edward Skur was a family man and veteran of WWII. In 1952 he worked for the state department, while being a suspected communist pursued by individuals working for the McCarthyTribunal. FBI Agent Arthur Dales and his partner Hayes Michael arrested Skur at his home, only to be informed of his suicide right afterwards. Skur later turned up alive at his home and attacked Dales while he was sitting in his car and thinking of how to express his regret to Skur's wife. Dales was later forced to remove Skur's name from his report by a justice department prosecutor. Skur was one of three test subjects, along with George Gissing and Terrill Oberman, implanted with a symbiotic organism. The procedure forced him to feed by having the organism, with the appearance of a spider, entering a victims mouth and feed by consuming all soft tissue and organs. The procedure had allegedly been performed on Skur by German scientists working for their new allied employers. Skur killed a German doctor and agent Michel out of vengeance. Unable to control the symbiots hunger, he killed his wife.