Between April 1928 and March 1929, arsenic killed Edmund Duff, Vera Sidney and Violet Sidney of one Croydon family. Two inquest juries found murder, a third could not decide, and in August 1929 the authorities said no one would be charged.
On October 21, 1978, a 20-year-old pilot told Melbourne air traffic control that a long, lit craft was hovering above him over Bass Strait. Then the radio filled with noise. But did Valentich really see something the official inquiry could not explain?
On October 31, 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died after eating a cyanide-laced Pixy Stix in Texas. The poisoner was his father. Joel Best’s decades of case counts have never confirmed a stranger poisoning a trick-or-treater.
On an August afternoon in 1901, two Oxford academics went looking for the Petit Trianon and came back convinced they had seen Marie Antoinette. Were they walking in 1789, or did memory do the rest?
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