Friends, While growing up I heard numerous stories of President John F. Kennedy. As historians continue to dig into his personal life, we find that the one-time leader of our free nation, did not have a spectacular moral compass. Even so, his assassination rocked out world, and has left many sleuths devouring books, videos, and… Continue reading September 2022 Newsletter
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August 2022 Newsletter
The Perfect Storm. Scholars often think of an alignment of catastrophic interactions as coincidence. Is it possible to apply that phrase to a sixty-year-old mystery?
July 2022 Newsletter
The phrase “The Separation of Church and State” does not appear in the Constitution. The phrasing came from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson wrote to the Baptist Association –
June 2022 Newsletter
Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, was a royal conspiracy theorist. Stoker believed, without a doubt, that Queen Elizabeth I remained a virgin because she was a man and not a woman.
April/May 2022 Newsletter
Could this have been an act of suicide based on unrequited love? With no further leads, the police cast the head of the mysterious man and brought Jestyn to look at it. Although she claimed no ties to the man, witnesses state she looked faint and startled when she saw the cast.
March 2022 Newsletter
Now, here’s something I didn’t see coming, a week before Nicole’s death, Rogers and Nicole attended a party with Dodi Fayed (yes, the man who would date Princess Diana years later). Dodi offers to take Nicole and her friends to London.
February 2022 Newsletter
Thus, the case remains unresolved. Here’s why: I found another theory from 2016. The Anne Frank Museum reported to the BBC that “The Nazis may have raided the Franks’ address based on reports of ration fraud.”
December 2021 Newsletter
But the ultimate proof of the two men’s identity came from Dr. Brendan Klare, Co-founder and CEO of Rank One Computing. Klare compared the police sketch of D. B. Cooper and photos of McCoy. After hundreds of calculations, their software provided a 98 percent certainty that both pictures were of the same man.
November 2021 Newsletter
At first, Betty and Anne thought it was a joke. Weeks before the incident, Lindbergh hid Charlie in a closet and told everyone that someone had kidnapped the baby. After Anne and the staff searched the house (starting in the nursery), Lindberg found a ransom note on the nursery’s windowsill.
September 2021 Newsletter
At 11:30 pm, Mary Jo Kopechne did not feel well and wanted to leave the party. Teddy, who also expressed exhaustion after the day’s activities, volunteered to drive her back to the ferry. However, for unknown reasons, he drove to Poucha Pond, where he lost control of his vehicle, swerved off the pier, and landed in the water. Later he would claim to have a concussion, and wander back to his cabin to rest, while Mary Jo suffocated and died.
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