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In 2016, a national columnist offered her thoughts on the Cobain question, including the following: “Like daylight savings and ramps at the farmer’s market, the impending anniversary of Cobain’s death always seems to bring out the “Kurt was murdered” brigade. And so, because the Internet is one big rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, because there […]
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The Sherlock approach to this crime and trial will therefore dig deep into interpretation of testimony, of family history, of the human psyche. Was perverse family abuse kept hidden, except for comments dropped to one or two friends, all those years? Quite possibly: where searing shame is involved, victims can be hard pressed to tell […]
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Developed from Abagnale’s memoir of the same name, the film version of “Catch Me If You Can” claims to be based on that “true story.” It takes us back to the mid-60s and early 70s, where a winsome and ageless Dicaprio pulls some pretty neat tricks as a junior con man. He charms the pants […]
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In most countries, there is no Statute of Limitations on Murder. Old, cold cases, come back to haunt us. We never stop wanting to know. The fate of the family of Czar Nicholas, at the hands of the Bolshevicks, has been addressed in hundreds of books. But now,
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Nisman died mysteriously in 2015, but the story goes back to 1994… Jewish center bombing casts shadow over Argentine politics 23 years on. Former president Kirchner ordered arrested on suspicion of covering up Iran’s role in terror attack that killed 85 in return for lucrative trade deals BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The bomb blast that […]
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Air Force Lieutenant William Mitchell passed two people walking west as he was running east along the towpath that day. The first person he claims to have seen was a woman whose description closely matches that of Mary, and the second was a man walking in the same direction, about 200 yards behind her. Mitchell […]
by Mind Over Mystery Often, interviews with and debates between Mystery Masters will enliven our study of mystery. But… read more by Mind Over Mystery We need to know – Featured this week… The case of Michelle O’Connell, from our Crime and… read more
The world of aircraft of course has its own experts, its own buffs, and aircraft on the fringes represent their own world of mystery. When an aircraft of unknown design is sighted, it’s like the shiver that goes down the spine of the ornithologist spotting a bird thought to be long extinct. So when a […]
After the brutal, infamous white colonial regime of South Africa gave way in 1994 to a government run by African hero Nelson Mandela, the new president asked for Truth and Reconciliation, even having a commission established under that name. The idea: get the atrocities of the past out into the open, but not with the […]
Propaganda, that’s what we call it, that’s what we remember. But so many questions are left unanswered whenever propagandists offer us their alternative version of the facts. The NY Times offered an article a few months ago under the title “The Mystery of Hanoi Hannah.” She was the Tokyo Rose of her war, always telling […]
The relatively small quantity of water makes modest contact with the edge of the river, the phrase just a drop in the bucket comes to mind. Yet many yards in to the center of the water, you’d think that a torpedo had exploded and stirred up some violent sea monster. Experts think that manatees–a protected […]
A mature, learned man named William Patterson can be seen on a long, high-quality video tape (YouTube) speaking about his journey with Carlos, or more nearly with his books and his “truths.” His audience are mature people, captured on camera with intimate clarity, perhaps of a median age of 50, and they are…rapt. They could […]
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” Marilyn Who was the bundle of contradictions we call Marilyn Monroe, so innocent-seeming a blonde with such a sharp mind, so genuine a person yet a pure creation of tinseltown, so intensely famous and pursued yet so lonely, […]
Intro Famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was a man of rules and discipline. He told his wife Anne… Read More A HOUSEHOLD NAME, LIKE ROCKEFELLER Like Rockefeller, he rose from poverty to wealth, he came out… Read More Intro “The word “psychopath” was coined by a German psychiatrist in… Read More BORN TO RIDE ROCKETS “It’s […]