The Conspiratory

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On this day in conspiracies

The dated turning points behind the case files: assassinations, crashes, leaks, votes, and the moments a theory was born, each drawn straight from a file's sourced timeline. We only place an entry on a day the record actually names.

  1. 1969
    Paul is deadHoaxes & Pop Culture

    University of Michigan student Fred LaBour publishes a satirical Michigan Daily review, 'McCartney Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light,' inventing several new clues as a joke. Wire services and campus papers nationwide reprint it as straight news.

  2. 1993
    Chris Hani assassinationGovernment & Intelligence

    Waluś and Derby-Lewis are convicted in the Rand Supreme Court, Waluś of murder and Derby-Lewis of conspiracy for supplying the pistol and helping plan the killing. Both are sentenced to death.

  3. 2025
    Jovenel Moïse assassinationGovernment & Intelligence

    Haiti's Court of Appeal annuls the earlier indictment in the domestic case, citing procedural flaws and insufficient evidence linking high-profile figures to the plot, and orders the investigation reopened with instructions to identify the intellectual authors beyond the arrested mercenaries.

Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.