उसने छह साल तक दक्षिण कोरिया की सबसे खतरनाक खुफिया एजेंसी चलाई, फिर अमेरिका भाग गया और कांग्रेस को सब कुछ बता दिया। अक्तूबर 1979 में जब उसे पेरिस के एक कसीनो में फुसलाया गया, तो वह अंदर चला गया और कभी वापस नहीं आया। तीन हफ्ते बाद, जो राष्ट्रपति उसे चुप कराना चाहता था, उसी आदमी के हाथों मारा गया जिस पर उसकी हत्या का आदेश देने का आरोप है।
She wrote 'There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.' Thirty minutes later, a text message detonated the bomb under her car seat. The hitmen are convicted. The accused mastermind is free on bail. The politicians she exposed are still on trial.
सशस्त्र लोगों ने 2019 में सत्रह अम्हारा छात्रों को एक बस से खींचकर इथियोपिया के जंगल में ले गए। सरकार का कहना है कि अधिकांश को छोड़ दिया गया। किसी भी परिवार ने अपने बच्चे को तब से नहीं देखा।
पाँच मछुआरे 1979 में एक शांत रविवार की सुबह माउई से रवाना हुए। एक अचानक तूफान ने उन्हें पूरी तरह निगल लिया। नौ साल बाद उनकी नाव 3700 किलोमीटर दूर एक वीरान प्रशांत एटोल पर मिली।
वे उरुग्वे के समुद्र तटों पर बह आए — प्रताड़ित, अनाम, NN के नाम से दफ़नाए गए। दशकों बाद, फोरेंसिक विज्ञान ने उनके चुराए हुए नाम लौटाने शुरू किए।
The 9th Infantry Division claimed 11,000 enemy kills in the Mekong Delta but recovered only 748 weapons. Up to 7,000 of the dead were civilians.
He exposed football corruption that toppled the Ghana FA president and reached FIFA. Seven months later, two men on a motorbike shot him dead in Accra.
He crossed into Taliban territory with twenty men and a satellite phone. The CIA and ISI — agencies that armed him for decades — let him die.
An 11-year-old boy vanished from a birthday pool party in one of Trinidad's wealthiest suburbs. His body was found the next morning at the bottom of the pool -- strangled, sexually assaulted, wearing another man's swim trunks. The DNA that could have identified his killers was incinerated. Twenty-eight years later, no one has been charged.
On a Thursday morning in July 1998, a car bomb detonated on one of Budapest's busiest streets, killing four people including the target — a mafia boss who had been informing police about the oil trade. The hitman was an agent of Slovak intelligence. The true orchestrator has never been identified.
A journalist investigating forty unsolved killings vanished in a white Land Cruiser — a minister admitted he was dead, then retracted, and no body has surfaced.
In 1997, a twenty-one-year-old Taiwanese airman was executed by firing squad for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl. The DNA evidence proving his innocence had been available before he died. Fourteen years later, the state admitted it had killed the wrong man -- and the actual murderer has never been brought to justice.