Shortly after her death, the L.A. County coroner concluded that Murphy died as a result of pneumonia combined with anemia and “multiple drug intoxication” from prescription and over-the-counter medication. “She was really sick with pneumonia, very anemic, and she was taking medication,” Ed Winter of the Coroner’s office said, “and all that combined killed her.” […]
Christopher “Huck” Look was a deputy sheriff who was working that night as a special police officer at the Edgartown regatta dance. At 12:30 a.m., Look left the dance, crossed over to Chappaquiddick in the yacht club’s launch boat, got into his parked car and drove toward his home, which was south of the Dike […]
If you’ve ever seen horror movies with a sadistic doctor performing horrific experiments, that’s a taste of Josef Mengele. He was Hitler’s research and torture doctor in the Third Reich, responsible for some of the worst atrocities known to man. Little is known of this Bavarian-born man’s childhood, though he was greatly influenced in college […]
It seemed more than eerie after a sharp-eyed pilot spotted the universal SOS sign, fashioned from rocks, displayed on a beach in the middle of essentially nowhere. A search of the area yielded nothing, no one, but the message of the rocks left a “creepy” feeling behind and a sense of “mystery” for the searchers. […]
Malaysian Flight 370 There have been plane crashes, and disappearing planes, since machines with… Read More Kazakhstan Sleepers They began nodding off, sometimes for days at a time, for no apparent reason…. Read More Taos Hum Sometimes a phenomenon exists, and yet it doesn’t. People keep reporting it…. Read More Brittany Murphy She was one of […]
Intro “The word “psychopath” was coined by a German psychiatrist in… Read More Intro It was the most grisly, famous murder of its time: In 1947, Elizabeth Short, an aspiring… Read More Everyone Loved Natalie How could someone so lovely as Natalie Wood die so unlovely a death,… Read More Rich Kids Get Away With […]
Statistical probabilities point to the guilt of Dr. Bruce Ivins in the mailing of deadly anthrax spores in 2001. We at M.O. Mystery do believe that a preponderance of circumstantial evidence, all taken together, does yield a high probability that Dr. Ivins was guilty of mailing the lethal substance in September and October, 2001, sent […]
Think of the word “nurse” in our language and all its connotations, how we “nurse” someone back to health, or “nurse” someone through a difficult patch in their lives. Beyond the medical training and credential, it’s a meaningful verb, and it’s the opposite of killing. Except that the nurse-serial killer is a very real phenomenon, […]
“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” Just what was Ernest Hemingway trying to tell us, or to get us to think about? Legend has it that a $10 wager with fellow writers resulted in this poignant short story by Ernest Hemingway. Is there proof? No… but that just adds to the mystery. The field of […]
John F. Kennedy was born into the wealthy Kennedy family who had established themselves for generations in American business, politics, and public service. JFK rose from a Naval Officer in World War II to become a Congressman, a Senator, then the 35th youngest-elected President of the United States. As a Lieutenant in the spring of […]
Always on the cutting edge of the 1960’s counterculture movement, The Rolling Stones were one of the most influential rock ‘n’ rolls bands of that era and became the longest performing band of all time. To end the decade with a bang, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, and The Grateful Dead organized a free west […]
“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. […]