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...noted scholar made his mark as a part of the original team working on the Dead Sea Scrolls, documents concerning the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity that were discovered in the caves near the Dead Sea from...
...Darwin disappeared on March 21, 2002, after paddling his red kayak into the North Sea. His wife reported him missing that night, and despite a frantic rescue effort - which combed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea and included nearly a dozen boats and a Royal Air Force helicopter - the search party found no trace of the former prison officer. The splintered remains of his vessel washed ashore six weeks later...
...From the beginning, the disappearance aroused suspicion. Members of the rescue effort could not fathom an experienced kayaker drowning on a day when the sea was unusually placid, and the location where Darwin's vessel washed ashore defied tidal patterns. "It didn't add up," David Young, a ward council member in Seaton Carew, told TIME, adding that fishermen joked the search team would have better luck canvassing the sun-drenched resorts dotting Spain's Costa del Sol. The investigation was rekindled three months ago, when police were tipped off to suspicious financial activity. This week, Tony Hutchinson, a spokesman...
...cardinal rule in police work is that the simplest explanation is often the correct one. But that maxim has been obliterated in the case of John Darwin, the missing British kayaker who surfaced this week, claiming amnesia, more than five years after vanishing in the North Sea. In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target...
...lurid tale began on March 21, 2002, when Darwin paddled his red kayak into the North Sea in front of his seafront home in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool. He never returned. An oar drifted ashore the next day, and after a fruitless search, the shattered remains of his vessel were found on a local beach six weeks later. Despite this evidence, suspicion lingered that there was something incongruous about an experienced kayaker drowning on a day when the sea was, in the words of one member of the rescue effort, "smooth as a millpond." Even before it emerged that...