[Music] the missing pages of John wils Boo's diary the first rays of dawn broke over the Virginia Countryside on April 26th 1865 the sergeant Boston Corbett studied his rifle across from him stood the man who had killed Abraham Lincoln John wils Boo for days Corbett and his men had pursued booth and his accomplice David heral through the forests in small towns of Northern Virginia finally cornering them in a rural Barn under strict orders not to fire the soldiers waited intense silence Harold surrendered hands raised but boo stayed hidden defiant moments later Booth shifted Corbett fired
his rifle with a bullet striking booth in the neck and paralyzing him he died hours later his story Untold but the questions left in his wake had only begun and his diary recovered from his body but mysteriously altered would soon become a key to a deeper darker mystery who's diary was handed over to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton shortly after the Assassin was killed rather than presented his evidence Stanton locked it away citing the need for secrecy he even withheld it from boot's trial a choice that would later haunt him when Stanton Finally Revealed the
diary during the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson it was missing pages Pages whose removal suggested more than mere oversight who tore them out and why theories about these missing pages emerged over the years some more explosive than others in 1937 historian o aan shimel suggested that Stanton himself might have orchestrated the assassination to remove a president whose postwar Vision threatened radical reconstruction according to is shim the missing pages could have implicated Stanton in Lincoln's death although unproven his claims sparked widespread suspicion Witnesses added fuel to the mystery National detective police head Lafayette Baker testified
the diary was intact when he turned it over to Stanton while Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger who retrieved it from boot's body claimed otherwise these conflicting accounts deepened the Intrigue raising doubts about Stanton's motives in later years the mystery took new turns historian Ray nef Unearthed cryptic messages and potential ciphers and Baker's personal writings suggesting a conspiracy involving Stanton reaching the highest levels of government and in an unexpected twist in the 20th century Brooklyn resident Robert Diamond launched a search of his own after discovering a forgotten train tunnel beneath the city he speculated that Booth had
hidden the missing pages there with the help of Confederate sympathizers in New York City though diamond is now borred from the site his theory hints at Secrets still hidden preserved under layers of dust and Earth as the years pass Boo's missing pages remain a mystery a fragment of American History lost to time but not to [Music] memory DB Cooper's cigarettes a lost clue has haunted the case of DB Cooper for nearly 50 years lingering just Out Of Reach like the mysterious figure himself eight cigarette butts each a potential answer to the identity of America's most
elusive Skyjacker vanished from FBI storage decades ago slipping away just as DNA testing was emerging as a powerful investigative tool if ever found these cigarette butts could finally reveal who Cooper was the history began on November 24th 1971 it was an ordinary evening aboard Northwest Orient flight 305 aing 727 passenger jet flight from Portland to Seattle until a flight attendant Florence Schaffner was summoned by a middle-aged white man seated near the back he introduced himself as Dan Cooper and with unsettling calm claimed to have brought a bomb when he opened his briefcase shaffner glimpsed wires
and red cylinders nestled inside Cooper's demands were clear $200,000 in cash and four parachutes she relayed the message to the pilot who in turn informed the authorities the plane landed in Seattle and Cooper stayed true to his word releasing the passengers once he received the ransom and the parachutes the crew remained on board as the flight lifted off into the night now following a course toward Reno Somewhere Over The Wilds between Seattle and Reno Cooper did the unth thinkable strapping on a parachute and securing his bag of Ransom money he Le from the aircraft into
the darkness below law enforcement scoured the area but no trace of him was ever found not a body not a parachute not a dollar of the cash he took with him in the Frantic hours after Cooper's Escape FBI agents examined the plane for any trace of their Skyjacker the evidence was sparse faint fingerprints on a magazine a clip-on tie and those eight cigarette butts each one a king-sized Raleigh brand cigarette pulled from a soft pack investigators comb through the Brand's Redemption records and track down two individuals named D Cooper neither lead however panned out today
those cigarette butts are believed to hold the key to solving the mystery yet for reasons no one can definitively explain they've been missing for decades back in 1971 before DNA testing trans trans formed forensics the FBI logged the cigarettes as evidence and filed them away some speculate they were shipped to Las Vegas with other items from the case While others think they were discarded deemed unimportant at the time if the cigarette butts ever resurface they could close one of the most baffling cases in American history but without them DB Cooper's identity along with the secrets
he took into the night sky May remain lost forever From [Music] Hell from Hell the letter read a grim message to George Lusk of white Chapel's vigilance committee it arrived not alone but wrapped around something far worse a human kidney soaked in alcohol a ghastly trophy from a killer who eluded capture almost as quickly as it surfaced the letter vanished leaving behind only copy and questions over a century later the truth has slipped further away with each passing [Music] Year from August 31st to November 9th 1888 five women were killed on London's East End the
Ripper had come to White Chapel streets that were already gripped by poverty and Desperation were now haunted by a killer who left a bloody Trail of Terror detectives began piecing together the horrors The Dread confirmed and taunting letters started reach reaching the Press signed Jack the Ripper lendon shivered in fear by mid October Lusk had become a well-known face around White Chapel his dedication to the Ripper case was noticed it seemed by more than just the residents strangers began following him watching a little too closely then on a cold evening Lusk received the letter claiming
that the kidney was half of one taken from a recent victim the Ripper boasted he'd consumed the other half initially Lusk suspected it was a morbid prank the police had already been flooded with false letters yet after examining the organ experts confirmed it was indeed human forcing them to reconsider the Letter's erratic spelling and crude grammar hinted at the author's background was this someone poorly educated or perhaps a person of Irish descent as some theorized in the peculiar phrasing but even as suspicions mounted the from Hell letter vanished from police files preventing further analysis beyond
the copies made the physical evidence slipped Into Obscurity as did any immediate hope of identifying the Ripper in recent years DNA analysis has raised new theories linking suspects like Aaron kski through controversial evidence but without the original letter for modern forensic analysis these findings remain inconclusive until then the from Hell letter lingers as one more mystery in the shadowy Legacy of Jack the river the missing JFK photos and files on November 22nd 1963 shots rang out across dly Plaza in Dallas Texas in a moment that changed the course of history President John F Kennedy was
killed 10 months later the warden commission released its final report declaring that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone but as the years passed doubts began to stir and public confidence in the commission's findings waned by 1998 the assassination records review board tked with unearthing documents related to the case revealed a series of troubling discrepancies missing examination notes vanished photos and disturbing inconsistencies raised a haunting question who really killed Kennedy the most glaring example was the destruction of an original set of notes by Dr James Joseph Humes one of the doctors who examined Kennedy after his
death during his testimony Humes admitted the process had been rushed and procedures like removing and weighing organs had been skipped astonishingly he confessed that the notes preserved in the archives were mere copies the original draft he said had been burned Humes claimed he destroyed the bloodstained notes out of respect for the Kennedy family but with no original documents to compare his assurance that the copies were accurate could never be verified hum's actions may have been intended as a kindness yet they deprived investigators of firstand records and cast a shadow over the findings further Revelations from
the review board hinted a deeper omissions an entire set of autopsy photographs had vanished the images that remained showed poor resolution inconsistent lighting and left critical questions unanswered such as the number of bullet holes when the board reached out to Sarah Spencer a member of the original team who had examined the photos her response was startling these were not the images she remembered she described a missing set of well-lit clear photographs starkly different from the commission's grainy versions with these missing pieces Skeptics are left to wonder were the Warren commission's findings simply flawed or was
there a deliberate effort to obscure the truth the tamam sh code book on December 1st 1948 a man's lifeless body lay sprawled on Summerton Park beach in Adelaide Australia he was well-dressed but his pockets were empty of identification save for one small torn slip of paper on it two words in Persian tamam meaning finished this cryptic clue would set off a search for a key piece of evidence that vanished as mysteriously as it [Music] appeared the words were quickly linked to the rubayat of Omar kayam a rare 11th century Persian book about life's fleeting Pleasures
authorities scoured the city for the matching copy only to find it months later under peculiar circumstances a man came forward claiming the book had been thrown into his car through an open window while parked near the beach inside the book's back cover detectives discovered faint penciled letters coded sequences that defied all attempts at decryption the text sprawled across five lines marred by strikethroughs as if its author had second guessed their message cryptographers even those from military intelligence were stumped further inspection revealed a local phone number scribbled on the last page it led police to Joe
Thompson a young woman living near the beach she pointed them to Al boxel a man to whom she once gifted a copy of the rubayat but when Buel was found alive and with his copy of the book intact Thompson became evasive refusing to answer more questions the trail went cold leaving many to suspect Espionage as the source of the mystery not long after the book slipped from police custody taking with it any chance of uncovering fingerprints or other Clues today researchers are left with only black and white photos of the book's ciphered letters leaving only
theories to fill the void Gordon Kramer a retired British detective recently Revisited the code claiming to see microscopic writing within the penil lines some letters He suggests resemble Mor's code and when cross-referenced they form a phrase referencing the dehab and Venom a British fighter jet classified as Top Secret in 1948 Kramer's theory if correct Paints the Summerton man as a Soviet spy in Australia possibly caught and silenced then in 2022 a breakthrough came with DNA analysis finally identifying the man as Carl Webb an electrical engineer from Melbourne who vanished from the record years before his
body appeared on Summerton Beach but Webb's unknown story his possession of the rubayat and the possibility of Cold War Espionage keep the case unresolved decades on the full secrets of the Summerton man remain preserved within a vanished book and a message that might never be [Music] decoded which of these missing pieces of evidence is most likely to be found let me know in the comments as always thank you for watching Dark V like And subscribe to continue exploring the greatest mysteries of this world and Beyond [Music]
