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L’Wren Scott went from bullied Mormon teen to international model to Hollywood stylist to fashion designer, becoming Mick Jagger’s girlfriend in the process. In March, she took her own life.
A draft dodger invents a pop music career for himself – without recording any songs.
How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.
In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
At 9:14pm on November 22, 1987, sportscaster Dan Roan was doing the Bears highlights on Chicago’s WGN-TV when the station’s signal was hijacked. Someone wearning a rubber Max Headroom mask appeared, silently, on TV screens around the city. A few hours later, Headroom popped up again on another channel, this time for longer and with audio. Despite FBI and FCC investigations, the case remains unsolved.
Nicholas Volker is a little boy with a rare, devastating disease. In a desperate bid to save his life, Wisconsin doctors must decide: Is it time to push medicine’s frontier?
Gregg Bemis is an 87-year-old retired venture capitalist who owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania. He’s determined to prove an alternate theory as to why the ship was attacked in 1915. Unfortunately, the Irish government isn’t so into his plan.
He’d sold his company, chartered a yacht, and set off with his model girlfriend to see the world. Finally, it seemed, Chris Smith was living the life he’d always wanted. But back home there was trouble: missing money, unraveling secrets, and a sudden question. Where the hell was Chris Smith, really?
The hunt for rare 1933 Double Eagle coins:
The U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting the nation’s currency, has been pursuing them for nearly 70 years, through 13 Administrations and 12 different directors. The investigation has spanned three continents and involved some of the most famous coin collectors in the world, a confidential informant, a playboy king, and a sting operation at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. It has inspired two novels, two nonfiction books, and a television documentary. And much of it has centered around a coin dealer, dead since 1990, whose shop is still open in South Philadelphia, run by his 82-year-old daughter.
Karen Holloman opened the door of her uncle's apartment with his best friend, Larry Young, a step behind. As they edged inside, she looked to her left and saw the end of her uncle's bed and his motionless feet. "He's been in here asleep all along," Holloman muttered, for a moment annoyed at the worry he had caused by not answering his phone. Her anger froze as she entered his room: The Rev. Marvin Moore lay dead in his bed, a bullet hole through the back of his head, a pool of blood gathered beneath his limp arm.
The neurologist explores the mystery of hallucinations.
The mystery behind who currently operates The Drudge Report.
Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.
How a father and son solved the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise.
On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.
A mystery writer moves into an apartment where a grisly crime was committed.
On a neuroscientist’s personal mission to solve the mystery of how the brain processes time.
Solving the mystery of Wilbur Ross’ missing fortune.
The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.
A found diary holds a love story—and a mystery.
An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.
The mystery of a death in Dallas.
A mystery embedded deep within the Amazon.
The mystery of the Brillante Virtuoso.
An unlikely duo from Boston treks to Bolivia, hoping to solve a 30-year-old aviation mystery.
