The archive, day by day
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.
- 1975Jimmy HoffaUnsolved Crimes & Disappearances
Hoffa drives to the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, expecting to meet Detroit mob figure Anthony 'Tony Jack' Giacalone and New Jersey Teamsters official Anthony 'Tony Pro' Provenzano. At about 2:15 p.m. he phones his wife, Josephine, from a nearby payphone to say no one has arrived. He is never seen again; his unlocked car is later found in the lot.
- 2018MH370Unsolved Crimes & Disappearances
The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Report is released. It cannot determine the cause, rules out common mechanical or fire scenarios as sole explanations, judges the turn-back likely to have been made manually, and declines to rule out unlawful interference by a third party, while identifying no culprit.
Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.