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What leads people to think a particular incident is a conspiracy leading to various theories as to what happened? Have important events occurred through secret plots by malevolent and powerful people?For example, it is said that over a half of Americans believethat Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in theassassination of President John F. Kennedy. Also, it is saidover a third of Americans still believe that global warmingis a hoax.In this book, a selection of twenty-eight true life casestories involving unsolved crimes, mysterious deaths anddastardly deeds, curious disappearances of people andevents that never seemed to be truly solved arepresented.For example, The Death of an Emperor: Was Napoleonpoisoned? ; The Whitechapel Murders aka Jack theRipper ; Bad Booze: Prohibition and AdulteratedAlcohol ; Wings over the Ocean: What happened toAmelia Earhart? ; The Black Dahlia: Macabre Death ofElizabeth Short ; Project Sunshine: Bombs, Babies andRadioactive Fallout ; The Philadelphia Experiment ; The Roswell UFO Crash ; The Mystery of Santiago Flight513 ; More than One Killer? Assassination of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy ; Bohemian Grove: A Web of Secrets? ; Paparazzi Pursuit: The Death of Diana, Princess of Wales just to name a number of earlier cases.Also, included are some other stories which had anelement of conspiracy of which the author had someinvolvement as an expert witness for example, Misty RiverMystery: Deaths of Dr Bogle and Mrs. Chandler ; A Dogand a Dame in a Ditch: Who Murdered MaureenMcLaughlin? and The Body in the Bay: Who Killed KatrinaPloy? History has repeatedly shown that political and corporateidentities have conspired against public interests.Conspiracy theories can play an important role in bringingtheir nefarious deeds to the light - and hopefully, in somecases, to justice and/or closure.'

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As a forensic toxicologist, William Allender has been called to give expert witness evidence in a number of very high profile cases involving drug overdoses and poisons (including pesticides), in which those substances have been used in suicides and murder. This is his third book . As a forensic toxicologist, William Allender has been called to give expert witness evidence in a number of very high profile cases involving drug overdoses and poisons (including pesticides), in which those substances have been used in suicides and murder. This is his third book.

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