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 […]
Consider President Reagan’s response (discussed in the earlier sections), curious to many fellow cold warriors: True, the president’s nationally televised address on Sept. 5 was full of strong rhetorical condemnation: Reagan called the Soviet action “monstrous,” “murderous,” and “born of a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life.” But little […]
This Month: Didn’t you know? The Moon Landing never took place, except in a television studio in Houston. Oliver Stone directed. That’s the story line of those who believe the moon launch never happened. Our initial comments: To believe that the astronauts actually set foot on the moon, lived to tell the tale, and returned […]
Okay, caught with (illicit) stacks of cash, machine guns, and God only knows what else, yes, she’s a criminal. A bad actor. And apparently the law provides for sentencing offenders in a Jane Doe context, whether they cough up their real identity or not. She does sort of look like…anyone’s grandmother, as they say. The […]
Joyce Riley was a Registered Nurse who served in the Gulf, and is now appalled at the range of runaway symptoms. From all the cognitive problems to all the digestive ones and beyond, to mycoplasma infections to overriding fatigue, not too mention the pattern of birth defects in children whose parents served in the Persian Gulf, […]
There’s a vague fascination with people who go hermit. “Does anyone ever actually see that old man? Well, I heard…..” The fascination kicks up a notch when the hermit is famous. And when the recluse lived on the edge of mystery already, let’s say writing literature open to interpretation, we really get curious. That’s the […]
As one of the wealthiest people of his time, Howard Hughes was born in 1905 to an American family who ran a successful oil tool business. At 18, he inherited it and became an instant millionaire. Young Howard went off to Hollywood, producing groundbreaking and often controversial films like Scarface and Hell’s Angels, the latter […]
North Korea ‘ghost ship’ packed with ‘defectors bodies’ washes up on the shore of Japan When a mysterious ship filled with dead North Koreans evokes the phrase “ghost ship” it’s fair to note: almost everything about the nation is shrouded in secrecy and mystery. We are truly dealing with a “ghost nation.” Churchill would have […]
Joe Bryan wasn’t killed in 1985, his wife Mickey was, found brutally murdered in their home on a night he was away at an educator’s conference. And yet his life, any semblance of the life he’d known, was over as well, as he soon became a suspect, eventually convicted and sent away for life. All […]
In the world of crowd sourcing wisdom, it’s natural that some of that crowd sourcing would focus on one of the greatest human hobbies, playing amateur detective. Literally thousands of ordinary citizens across the world are web sleuthing in one fashion or another these days, mostly in regard to missing persons and unidentified bodies. But […]