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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.
- 2012Spy in a bagUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Dr Wilcox returns a narrative verdict: the death was “unnatural and likely to have been criminally mediated.” She finds on the balance of probabilities that a third party locked the bag and placed it in the bath, and criticises MI6 and the police, noting that counter-terrorism officers had failed to disclose items from Williams's office and that the possible involvement of intelligence staff was a legitimate line of inquiry.
- 2018Cambridge AnalyticaGovernment & Intelligence
Cambridge Analytica and its parent SCL Elections announce they are ceasing operations and beginning insolvency proceedings, roughly six weeks after the story broke.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.