What leads people to think a particular incident is a conspiracy leading to various theories as to what happened? Have important events occurred through secret plots by malevolent and powerful people? For example, it is said that over a half of Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Also, it is said over a third of Americans still believe that global warming is a hoax. In this book, a selection of twenty-eight true life case stories involving unsolved crimes, mysterious deaths and dastardly deeds, curious disappearances of people and events that never seemed to be truly ' solved' are presented. For example, " The Death of an Emperor: Was Napoleon poisoned?"; " The Whitechapel Murders aka ' Jack the Ripper'; " Bad Booze: Prohibition and Adulterated Alcohol"; " Wings over the Ocean: What happened to Amelia Earhart?"; " The Black Dahlia: Macabre Death of Elizabeth Short"; " Project Sunshine: Bombs, Babies and Radioactive Fallout"; " The Philadelphia Experiment... "; " The Roswell UFO Crash... "; " The Mystery of Santiago Flight 513...; " More than One Killer? Assassination of President John F. Kennedy";