On this day in conspiracies

After a trial of about a month and roughly five hours of deliberation, the jury acquits Frances Hall, Henry Stevens, and Willie Stevens of the murder of Eleanor Mills. No one is ever convicted of the killings, and the family later sues the Daily Mirror for libel, settling out of court. The case remains formally unsolved.

A temperature inversion and shifting winds hold the plume low and carry it farther and more erratically than planners intended, over farmland and small towns across the region. Monitoring finds elevated radioiodine on vegetation. No public warning is given, and the operation is classified.

Two days before the free 'Smile Jamaica' concert, gunmen storm Marley's home at 56 Hope Road in Kingston. Marley is shot in the chest and arm, his wife Rita is grazed in the head, and manager Don Taylor is seriously wounded. No one is killed, and no one is ever charged. Marley performs at the concert on 5 December regardless.

The satirical site World News Daily Report publishes a story headlined that the Smithsonian had admitted destroying thousands of giant skeletons, inventing an American Institution of Alternative Archeology and a Supreme Court case forcing disclosure. The site carries a disclaimer that its content is fiction.

A superseding indictment charges 16 additional officials, widening the case across the Americas. Two more officials are arrested at the same Zurich hotel. FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini are separately banned by FIFA's ethics committee over a two-million-Swiss-franc payment; both deny wrongdoing.

A superseding indictment unsealed in Brooklyn charges 16 additional officials, extending the case deeper into CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. Two current FIFA vice presidents are among those arrested in a second round of pre-dawn raids in Zurich.

President Yoon Suk-yeol declares emergency martial law, invoking 'anti-state forces' and long-circulating suspicions of election fraud. Troops are dispatched to the National Election Commission, apparently to seize servers and find proof of rigging.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center issues public service announcement I-120324-PSA, 'Criminals Use Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Financial Fraud'. It sets out the toolkit in categories: AI-generated text for fictitious profiles and translated approaches, AI-generated images including 'images of celebrities or social media personas promoting counterfeit products', cloned audio impersonating public figures and relatives, and AI-generated video used to create 'fictitious or misleading promotional materials for investment fraud schemes'.