On this day in conspiracies

According to accounts later reported to Western intelligence, Masaryk spends a tense final evening at the Czernin Palace. Newly surfaced archival material alleges a heated argument with several men that day, though this is contested and unverified.

Columbia lands, closing out STS-75. Despite the tether break, the mission returns useful electrodynamic and microgravity data, and NASA and the Italian Space Agency treat the flight as a partial success.

Wallace is shot and killed shortly after leaving a Vibe magazine party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. A gunman in a dark Chevrolet Impala pulls alongside his GMC Suburban at a red light and fires; Wallace is pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. He was 24. FBI records later noted the use of unusual German-made 9mm ammunition.

The criminal trial of four suspects, Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov (all Russian) and Leonid Kharchenko (Ukrainian), opens at the District Court of The Hague. All are tried in absentia; only Pulatov is represented by defence lawyers.

Russia's Defense Ministry, through spokesman Igor Konashenkov, claims to have uncovered an 'emergency' Ukrainian effort to destroy lab pathogens and later alleges plans to spread disease via migratory birds, bats, and mosquitoes. The claims are presented without verifiable evidence.

Barnett, in Charleston to give deposition testimony in his lawsuit, is found dead in his truck in a hotel car park during a break in proceedings. Police report a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 62.

Over two days, state investigators conduct what officials describe as the first known full search of the property, using four cadaver dogs, drones, and ground-penetrating radar, after a tipster claimed to have seen "grave-like plots." As of late March, officials report no human remains found and say the most significant evidence may lie away from the ranch.

Researchers writing for The Conversation, republished by the University of Wollongong, set out both sides of the ledger. Crowdsourced work genuinely surfaced things: open-source communities cross-referenced early flight-log releases against public charity and event schedules and mapped passenger associations days ahead of verified media reporting. But the same machinery produced 'redaction matching', described plainly as sleuths baselessly asserting that censor-bar lengths match the letter counts of specific politicians' names.