“The word “psychopath” was coined by a German psychiatrist in 1888–the same year Jack the Ripper terrorized… read more It was the most grisly, famous murder of its time: In 1947, Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet, was found in a field… read more How could someone so lovely as Natalie Wood die so unlovely a […]
In our introduction, we spoke about the old saw that you can’t con an honest man. James Walsh even has a recent book out, an exploration of the Ponzi scheme and its practitioners, whose titles begins with “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man.” But are we being too hard on the “marks,” are we blaming […]
The RMS Titanic took to the seas as a source of wonder, an almost indescribable engineering feat, and statement of incredible luxury. Remember, passenger service across The Atlantic by air lay decades into the future. And now, early in the 20th century, came the great steam ships, with double magic–they were extremely fast, and extremely luxurious. […]
The unfortunate disappearance, read murder, of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashogghi has been in the… Read More Often at Mind Over Mystery we encounter a tantalizing story that’s just popped in the news…. Read More It’s like the old jokes that started as soon as the commercials aired–… Read More The article in The Guardian a […]
No, not a lot of mystery about who shot Abraham Lincoln, and when. On April 14, 1865, the President and the First Lady, unwinding a little as a “Great War” had wound down and a second term was cranking up, were attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington. The rest is commonly known history: […]
by Mind Over Mystery | Oct 1, 2015 | Developing Mysteries | 0 In most countries, there is no Statute of Limitations on Murder. Old, cold cases, come back to… Read More by Mind Over Mystery | Sep 29, 2015 | Developing Mysteries | 0 Once before, in 1968 as the world focused eyes on […]
It isn’t quite a mystery bite, more of a mystery morsel. Dr. Joshua Hull. He hasn’t been seen since October 13th, a rising young physician from the Temple, Texas area. Poof, gone, a description of the man and his car out there, but no man out there, not that anyone has seen or reported. You’re […]
It was 1933 and the Nazis were on a steady rise to power in Germany, but not without government opposition. On the night of February 27th, passers-by reported hearing breaking glass at the country’s seat of parliament, the Reichstag. The building went up in flames and the main debate hall and monumental dome center were […]
Now Davern says he wasn’t telling the whole truth. During the investigation into Natalie’s death Dennis Davern, who was captaining their yacht, backed up everything R.J. and Christopher Walken said. Then Davern changed his story. “Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour” is the result of a decades-long investigation by journalist Marti Rulli and Dennis Davern. According to […]
In 1977 and ’78, the House Select Committee on Assassinations officially reviewed not only the JFK assassination by Martin Luther King’s death five years later as well. Their conclusion: while finding no evidence of government conspiracy or involvement, they suspected one or more persons colluded in some fashion with James Earl Ray in the hit […]
It’s usually a big deal when the provenance of items at a murder scene are identified–it’s all the more likely that somebody’s going to prison. That’s not really the case here. The victim was discovered frozen, murdered in the Alps in in 1991, but he’d been dead since, give or take, 3,500 BCE. There may […]
The whole tale involves to much complexity to unravel here, but questions resurface: What instruments are used to root out counter-espionage, given the special challenge? By definition the spies are culturally complex–spying on China means knowing the language and culture well, perhaps being native-born. Why such long trajectories from firm suspicion to actually taking action […]
For the lovers of Nirvana, for a musical generation, Kurt Cobain’s death in April of 1994 was the same sort of blow to the psyche that the murder of a vibrant President had been for earlier generations in 1963. Read More Over 1,500 people lost their lives the night of April 15, 1912. Are we sure, even now, […]
You may not have heard that Amber Hilberling, mother of a small child, killed herself in her prison cell in Oklahoma in October of 2016. Tragic, you say, but who in the world was Amber Hilberling? The crimes shows had featured her in 2011 after her young husband Joshua fell 17 stories to his death […]