Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On Halloween 1966, seven people gathered around a locked footlocker inside the National Archives. Before anyone looked inside, two of them turned around and walked out of the room.
What they found — or didn't find — is the reason the most examined murder of the twentieth century is still missing its single most important piece of physical evidence. No theft was reported. No investigation was opened. And when officials realized what had happened, one of them wrote in a government memo that looking any further might mean "borrowing trouble."
They stopped looking.
We go back to the autopsy table at Bethesda, follow the paper trail through every hand the evidence passed through, and lay out the four explanations for where it went — the boring one, the conspiratorial one, the medical one, and the one almost nobody talks about. Each of them explains something the others can't. At the end, we tell you which one we think is true, and exactly where we're guessing.
The gap in the record is still a gap. Millions of declassified pages later, not one document says what happened.
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08:09 Theories
14:44 What most likely happened
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On Halloween 1966, seven people gathered around a locked footlocker inside the National Archives. Before anyone looked inside, two of them turned around and walked out of the room.
What they found — or didn't find — is the reason the most examined murder of the twentieth century is still missing its single most important piece of physical evidence. No theft was reported. No investigation was opened. And when officials realized what had happened, one of them wrote in a government memo that looking any further might mean "borrowing trouble."
They stopped looking.
We go back to the autopsy table at Bethesda, follow the paper trail through every hand the evidence passed through, and lay out the four explanations for where it went — the boring one, the conspiratorial one, the medical one, and the one almost nobody talks about. Each of them explains something the others can't. At the end, we tell you which one we think is true, and exactly where we're guessing.
The gap in the record is still a gap. Millions of declassified pages later, not one document says what happened.
Thanks SO much to our 60 members: Megan Lange, Leslee Gaddis, Hey Y'all It's Megan, Mike Manton, Brandon Martin, doxasophosmorosOGgamer2013, Luke Westlake, Brandon N, Gillian, Will Ivy, Hannah Rachel, amber tait, yuupp, LegendaryZan, MintBerry Crunch, Stacey Grey, Margaret McCullough, BigBulldogg, Kam Harrington, Connor Heldman, LFG, Full Medal Racket, Amy Lancaster, Christina Horup, ShadShadow201, Jonathan Schau, alimar pr, ilikesubs, TJ P, Aaron, Rikin Shah, Luyanda Uthando Makhanya, theRequiem78, Isaac Fancher, Mark Cameron, Cement Shoes, idkkk, Melanie Wagoner, Knight of 345, Scripti Cat, Chris Green, Jonathan Emerling, Richard Ferri, JL Puckett, Michael Toomey, s !, tezzybadazz 88, Marie Hannan-Mandel, johnny hansen, Lacamina, Terrence Ring, XYZ LUCINA, Howard Hughes, mathew mcneil, StuartTheSwedishScot, David Wilcoxon, AMISHOVERSHOE, Jinxy's Hoom, Jay Moose, Anthony Haera
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Bad Things: True Crime is a channel with all things true crime and mystery! Subscribe to stay updated on the most interesting true crime cases out there.
0:00 Timeline
08:09 Theories
14:44 What most likely happened
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• Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”
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