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🪂D.B. CooperOn 24 November 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, took $200,000 in Seattle and jumped from a Boeing 727; he was never found.📉Bernie MadoffBernard L. Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest Ponzi scheme then recorded in U.S. court, after his New York investment business collapsed in December 2008.🧪TheranosTheranos promised laboratory results from a finger-stick. After 2015 reporting and a 2022 federal verdict, Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud against investors.📂Panama PapersOn 3 April 2016 ICIJ and more than a hundred outlets began publishing 11.5 million files from Panama firm Mossack Fonseca, a leak that toppled governments and left a mixed dock of inquiries.
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D.B. CooperOn 24 November 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, took $200,000 in Seattle and jumped from a Boeing 727; he was never found.Mary CelesteThe Mary Celeste (1872): found under sail near the Azores with cargo intact and no one aboard — public salvage record, not a thriller ranking.Amelia Earhart disappearanceOn 2 July 1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished on the Lae-to-Howland leg of an around-the-world flight; no wreck or remains have been identified.Malaysia Airlines Flight 370On 8 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing and vanished; satellite handshakes and later Indian Ocean debris never produced a located wreck or a cause.Somerton ManOn 1 December 1948 an unidentified man was found dead on Somerton Park beach; a Rubaiyat scrap reading Tamám Shud defined the case, and a 2022 DNA claim named Carl Webb without settling how he died.Bernie MadoffBernard L. Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest Ponzi scheme then recorded in U.S. court, after his New York investment business collapsed in December 2008.
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