Edward Snowden is someone most of us have heard of, but think about little if at all. Name sounds familiar. Isn’t he the guy in hot water with the government, we ask, for exposing lots of classified information? Yes, that’s him. He’s the one who made sure the U.S. American public knew that the post-9/11 […]
If you’re looking for a plot for a good mystery novel, this might be it. First you have the intrigue of why someone might squirrel away a king’s ransom of gold inside a piano. Was the piano owned by their family at the time, and they needed to stash gold that no one else knew […]
A wise old psychologist who lived throughout most of the twentieth century noted the psychic thirst to keep thinking about Hitler. “He always comes back. There’s always one more story, one more movie, one more theory. Always, he comes back.” Now comes the latest story regarding something you thought was long settled. Hitler killed himself […]
NASA diapers or no, on February, 5, 2007 Nowak went to the Orlando Airport and waited for about half an hour for Shipman’s plane. Shipman said that after arriving, she became aware of someone following her to an airport satellite parking area. When she got into her car, she heard rapid footsteps and quickly locked […]
Lawrence in British Army uniform, 1918 It seems a collaboration of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. are now certain that they they know where Lawrence’s Rolls, “requisitioned” after he saw it on the street in Cairo, came from, although not where it ended up. It all drips with history. The original owner of […]
In a case like this, there’s no end to the theories. Jack the Ripper was even claimed to be a woman. Mary Pearcey, a midwife and covert abortionist, was apparently the only female suspect mentioned at the time. She was hanged for murder in 1890, but not for the Ripper’s crimes. “I am not guilty […]
One more sick, serial killer, but the written trail later discovered does add an interesting dimension. Investigators discovered that Kohlhepp had left clues online – posting a five-star review on a folding shovel for sale on Amazon and writing: “Keep in the car for when you have to hide the bodies.” Another post on Amazon […]
Mysterious incidents at sea have it all: a crew that for a time is it’s own closed society, the vagaries of seas and tides and weather, and spice of exotic locations, sometimes unknown and unknowable locations, even sightings of exotic creatures, or lost islands. In lore, and in fact maritime mysteries live on, and not […]
“Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, author Agatha Christie left readers with 80 publications and a mystery not even the Police could solve. An enigma herself, she disappeared without rhyme or reason.” Genevieve Scott, Myjournal.com, 10/21/2021 You might think you know famed mystery writer Agatha Christie from her many novels. Most mystery buffs have […]
Some instinct tells us that this story conceals a few interesting layers, if one started pealing them away. It’s not that unusual, really, for a criminal to get his life so tangled up that suicide starts to look like an option. But this guy had an amazing history. Like others, he was addicted to lying, […]
“Can you describe the sessions with your fake daughter? Yuichi: Sometimes we dine together. We’ve been to theme parks, like Disneyland. We go shopping in Harajuku once a month. The mother pays about 20,000 yen per four hours, plus expenses. That’s about $200. Morin: What’s your cover story? Yuichi: I told her I have my […]
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, rose to leadership during the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The ambitious and intelligent politician made a name for himself spreading the ideals of socialism and with his abilities unionizing Russian workers. As an effective activist he impressed Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Communist Party that gained […]
Of course raiding a monastery is a big deal in this culture, rather like storming a Basilica in Italy. The authorities it seems held off a long time, confronted by pro-temple mobs, but finally made their move. Why engender all those hard feelings, over one alleged religious crook? There’s intrigue here, behind the scenes, to […]
If some foreign policy watchers are to be believed, the so-called military “coup” in Turkey in July of 2016 was the most transparently phony-baloney since a barker at a fair asked everyone to come up and find the pea hidden beneath a cup. The analysts use deductive reasoning and critical thinking to arrive at their […]
