Assassinations and suspicious deaths — what the investigations found, and what the record still leaves open. 38 case files in the archive.
Obama's personal chef of more than a decade drowned paddleboarding on Martha's Vineyard in July 2024. The investigation closed quickly; the conspiracy theories did not.
Two federal commissions, the JFK Records Act, and 12 million pages of primary material. Warren Commission, HSCA, releases through 2025.
A federal detainee with extensive connections to powerful figures died in custody under conditions that included a camera malfunction, sleeping guards, and a removed cellmate.
Five confirmed Northern California murders 1968-1969 by an unidentified killer who sent taunting letters and ciphers. Z408 solved 1969; Z340 solved December 2020.
Coordinated under CORDS by Robert Komer and William Colby. Officially 'neutralized' 26,369 Viet Cong cadre. Critics characterized the program as a targeted-assassination operation.
The Kennedy-era CIA-DoD program against Castro, run by Edward Lansdale with William Harvey's Task Force W. ZR/RIFLE, the mafia subcontract, the Castro assassination-methods inventory.
Six members of a Bavarian farm family killed with a mattock over the night of March 31, 1922. Strange events preceded the killings. Still officially unsolved.
Poe found delirious on Baltimore streets in clothes not his own; died four days later at Washington Medical College. Cause of death never definitively established.
The body of an unidentified malnourished boy found in a cardboard JC Penney box in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. Identified December 8, 2022 via DNA genealogy as Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
Two electronic technicians found dead on Vintém Hill near Niterói, wearing matching lead masks of the type used for industrial alpha-radiation shielding.
Elizabeth Short, 22, found bisected on a Los Angeles vacant lot in January 1947. LAPD's massive investigation generated multiple suspects across eight decades.
Pont de l'Alma tunnel crash, August 31, 1997. The Operation Paget 832-page report; the 2008 inquest verdict.
October 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock fired from Mandalay Bay on the Route 91 Harvest festival, killing 60. FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit's 2019 finding: no clear motive established.
The canonical five Whitechapel victims (Nichols, Chapman, Stride, Eddowes, Kelly); the 'From Hell' letter; the major suspects across 137 years.
The former Teamsters president vanished from a Detroit-area parking lot on July 30, 1975. The FBI HOFFEX investigation. Tony Pro and Tony Jack.
Found dead at her Brentwood home, August 5, 1962. Coroner's ruling: probable suicide by barbiturate. The 'no water glass' anomaly. The Kennedy connections.
Found drowned in the rooftop water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles after weeks of internet attention to the strange elevator surveillance video.
Deputy White House Counsel found dead at Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, July 20, 1993. Five separate official investigations (Park Police, Fiske, Starr, Senate Banking, House Government Oversight) all concluded suicide.
John Barnett, former Boeing quality manager, found dead during deposition proceedings against Boeing on March 9, 2024. Joshua Dean dead April 30, 2024.
The DNC staffer shot in the back twice in Bloomingdale, DC, in July 2016. The August 2016 Assange suggestion; the 2017 Fox News retraction; the Rich family lawsuits and 2020 settlement.
The UK MoD biological warfare expert and BBC source on the 'sexed-up' Iraq WMD dossier, found dead in Oxfordshire woods on July 18, 2003.
The Swedish Prime Minister shot on Sveavägen street in central Stockholm, February 28, 1986. 34 years of unsolved investigation followed by the June 2020 identification of Stig Engström.
Three of four Finnish teenagers killed by lakeside in June 1960; the fourth (Nils Gustafsson) survived and was himself prosecuted in 2004 and acquitted in 2005.
King Edward V (12) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (9), vanished from the Tower of London in summer 1483 under Richard III's protection.
The Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed journalist's high-speed single-vehicle crash on a quiet LA street, June 18, 2013. The McChrystal profile context.
South American Cold War intelligence-cooperation program coordinated by DINA's Manuel Contreras. The Letelier-Moffitt bombing in Washington (1976); the 1992 Archives of Terror discovery; 60,000-80,000 estimated victims.
270 killed when a Semtex bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Camp Zeist trial; Megrahi's 2001 conviction and 2009 release. Libya's 2003 acknowledgment.
At least 12 confirmed victims in Cleveland's Kingsbury Run shantytown. Eliot Ness's Director of Public Safety investigation; the August 1938 shantytown burning; the Dr. Francis Sweeney suspect interrogations. Officially unsolved.
Initial December 2010 discoveries on Ocean Parkway, Long Island. The Gilgo Four and subsequent identifications. The July 2023 arrest of Rex Heuermann; 2024 superseding indictments.
The actress drowned during a Splendour yacht trip off Catalina Island. Reopened 2011; reclassified 2012 to drowning and other undetermined factors. Wagner named a person of interest in 2018.
The June 1968 Ambassador Hotel shooting. Sirhan's conviction and his lifelong recantation. The Noguchi autopsy's powder-burn evidence and the second gunman question.
The 1968 Lorraine Motel killing. James Earl Ray's guilty plea and lifelong recantation. The 1979 HSCA conspiracy finding. The 1999 King v. Jowers civil verdict for the King family. The 2000 DOJ investigation's contrary finding.
Banco Ambrosiano's collapse and Calvi's hanging under Blackfriars Bridge. The IOR's unsecured loans under Marcinkus. The P2 Lodge. The 2002 City of London Police forensic re-examination revising the ruling to almost certainly murder.
The December 1969 police killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Chicago, the FBI informant who supplied the floor plan, the discredited 'shootout' account, the COINTELPRO campaign against the BPP, and the 1982 civil settlement.
The decades-old claim that an unusual number of Clinton associates died suspiciously. The 1990s origin, how the list is built, why base-rate and selection problems make it statistically meaningless, and its revival around Vince Foster, Seth Rich, and Epstein.
The Army biological-warfare scientist who fell from a New York hotel window in 1953, nine days after the CIA dosed him with LSD under MK-Ultra. The suicide ruling, the 1975 disclosure, the 1994 exhumation suggesting homicide, and the unresolved manner of death.
The 2006 contract killing of the Russian journalist, shot in her Moscow apartment building. The convictions of the shooter and accomplices, the unidentified sponsor, and the pattern of killings of Russian journalists.
The CIA-organized group of Cuban exiles formed around the Bay of Pigs as a counterintelligence and political-action cadre. The documented core, the assassination-squad allegations, the JFK conspiracy accretions, and what the record actually supports.