Historical mysteries

In November 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Flight 305, collected $200,000 and jumped into the night. This board lays out the FBI's own records: the ticket, the note, the jump, the money found in 1980 and the suspects ruled out.

The five Whitechapel murders of 1888, laid out from the inquest testimony, police reports, the 'Dear Boss' and 'From Hell' letters and the 1894 Macnaghten memorandum's three suspects, with where the witnesses disagree.

In December 1872 the Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic with nobody aboard. This board lays out the crew list, the last log entry, the salvors' sworn testimony, the Gibraltar inquiry and the theories, from the primary sources.