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“This is a most unusual case. It was so from the beginning. As it goes on, it…

There’s no need for crime fiction when you have the real life, and the real mysteries, of John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer to grapple with. Come explore the file with us.

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.

What was their fate? And more importantly, what would drive everyone off a stable, seaworthy ship, into a lifeboat not made for long-distance voyages? The Mary Celeste mystery is a classic. What happened that day in December of 1872?

Over 1,500 people lost their lives the night of April 15, 1912. Are we sure, even now, what led to the collision, and what sunk an ‘unsinkable’ boat? Will the books ever really be closed on the mysteries of the Titanic?

Time moved on and he served an astounding 46 years in the U.S. Senate, until his death in 2009. But the cloud, the mystery, and the unseemly smell of the incident never entirely went away. The best spin doctors money can buy could never quite cleanse the image of a girl drowning in a car while the Senator went on about his business. And different theories have emerged of precisely what happened those hours of July 18 and early the 19th, 1969.

We set off to explore personal tragedy, wrapped in political intrigue.

Now that the murder case recedes into history, you’ll hear less and less about Amanda Knox. But what happened in Perugia, Italy that fateful evening that so ignited emotions on both sides of the Atlantic? Why the loathing, and informal conviction of Knox by the mainstream Italian press, and Italian people, years ago? Amanda’s case is a classic small town tale, of bias and posturing, and genuine crime, and corruption. What journey of understanding can she take us on?

There’s an old saying among professional swindlers that “you can’t con an honest man.” The “mark” was looking for something for nothing, or even running their own con, and just got taken in by a better one. A rationalization? Yes, but don’t be too quick to dismiss it. What type of person does fall for the too-good-to-be-true scenarios that con men concoct, and who enables them?

How did one of the great hucksters of his time write such good fiction, animate so many imaginations in positive ways, and yet do so much damage to anthropological science, and the lives of numerous people? Our common psychology begs that question. What in the world happened with Carlos Castaneda?

They were assembled on public time, with public money, and thus belonged to the American people. Although “secret,” and apart from the normal filing system, their existence was known by scores of persons. It was suspected, at least, by anyone with an intimate knowledge of the government of the era.

It’s not every day that a body is found hanging from a rope, nude, hands and feet tied, with abrasions about the head that implied impact, multiple trauma points

It’s especially not every day that such a death is ruled a suicide, even though confrontations between that person and others have recently occurred.

The case haunts us, and like a prism reveals the colors of a dozen intriguing questions, each of which splits off into the shades of a dozen more. MindOverMystery explores this story, the most tragic of stories. We open the File.. Whatever happened to JonBenet Ramsey?

maximios | March 12, 2017 | Secrets|