Tag: Unexplained Deaths


  • The Lead Masks Case: What Happened on Vintém Hill?

    KEY FACTS Two Men on a Hillside Three days after two men travelled into Niterói, their bodies were sighted high on Morro do Vintém. They lay in a place difficult to reach, with no obvious signs of a struggle and no witness able to explain their final hours. What investigators recovered around them suggested preparation…

  • Somerton Man

    KEY FACTS The Man Against the Seawall At dawn on 1 December 1948, a well-dressed man lay dead against the seawall at Somerton Beach, south of Adelaide. There was no weapon, no obvious injury and no identification. Beachgoers had noticed him in the same position the previous evening. One saw him move an arm; others…