Occam's razor

 The K.I.S.S. Principle

Don't look for a complex reason to a simple solution

The theory behind Occam's razor is easy to understand, most mysteries have a simple reason behind them, why make a large case for something straight forward.

Two Curses?

Here are two examples.

The Curse of Tutankhamun

Since Howard Carter opened the tomb in 1923, a lot has been said about the deaths of the three men involved in the opening; there is no curse.

Howard Carter died shartly after opening the tomb, what did you expect, the tomb hadn't been opened in all the time, Lord knows what bacteria had evolved in the 2,000 years since his burial.

His assistant died from an infection he got from a cut, even now, the medical knowledge in Egypt is abbysmal, back then it was almost unknown.

The third person died after being hit by a bus in London, if he hadn't been part of the expedition nobody would have known about his death.

The Kennedy Curse

Most people would say the curse began with JFK being shot in Dallas, but his elder brother died in WW2.

Joe Kennedy Jnr died in WW2, he was the pilot of a drone bomb, the bombs were notorious for failing. The theory was a bomb would be attached to a bomber, and flown close to its target were it would be releaded, to be guided to its final destination where the pilot would bail out as the bomb flew on. 

However, there were many flaws in the plan. First, the bombs were electrically connected to their guide, which meant the pilot had to turn the power off to release the bomb.

People forgot, once the bomb is released it became a dead weight with no momentum, and would plummet to earth. very few got more than a few miles from their release point.

Then, you have the pilot's escape, very few pilots escaped. Mainly because the down draught of the falling bomb stopped the canopy from opening so they could escape.

John Fitzpatrick Kennedy.

Thories to both the killer, and the reason for the murder of JFK are as many as summer flies in a heatwave. I am certain of two things, Lee Harvey Oswald was a "patsy," a stool-pigeon to take the fall, that is why he was killed by Jack Ruby, who died a few days later, was silenced before he could say who gave him the job. From is position, LHO would have had little sight of his target, and only for a brief moment.

To me, the killer was the man on the knoll. For him, the target was moving to him in full view. The mystery for me is who paid for the killing? There were many possibles, JFK had annoyed people from far and near, including his family. My view is it was LBJ, at the time of the shoooting JFK was investigating his vice-President for misappropriation of party funds. The evidence is there, but in the furore of the shooting it was forgotten, and LBJ walked free.

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy, Attorney General, was killed by someone he knew, and probably trusted, why do I say that? He was ushered from his route at the hotel into the kitchen, where Sirhan Sirhan was waiting gun-in-hand. At the time, it was well-known that LBJ had a strong dislike for the Kennedy family. RFK had made a lot of enemies as AG, among them the teamsters, and unions, it is not beyond belief they had a hand in his death, I never thought until this post, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa could be linked to these cases, as the leader of the Teamster Union disappeared not long after RFK's death, did he know something?

I put down Hoffa's disappearance to crossing swords with the MAFIA, not long before he vanished he was known to have seen the Dockworkers boss, Vito Genovese. The dockers are the vital link in any orginisation, the seamen transport the goods across the seas, and the teamsters deliver the goods around the country, but neither union is allowed to load the trucks. Crossing swords with the Genovese family usually had one end, you died.

Why I think they had nothing to do with his disappearance, it isn't the style of the mob to hide a killing, especially if it's as high-profile as Hoffa was. However, after being to jail, and pardoned, on the grounds he stayed out of politics, Hoffa was in no position to be a threat.

Where is Jimmy Hoffa?

In my mind, he didn't move far from where he was last seen in Detroit, why?

Theories as to the location of the body abound, from the end-zone of the New York Giants stadium ,to the Nevada desert. I have no doubt the "family" has the power, and connections to bury a body in the stadium, but why?

Why go to Nevada?

Trucks even then had large ice coolers, and could have taken the body to the desert, but why go to Nevada, when you have states closer?

Why do I think he's close to Detroit?

There is a large body of water not far from the area, ideal for a "quick dump" of a body. The body never turned up because it was probably attacked by fish, as they tore the flesh, any gas build up would have escaped, causing the body not to rise.

An interesting aspect of this scenario is after his disappearance, nobody took his place, fear or threat?

Edward Kennedy Jnr.

The death of Mary Jo Kopechne while in the car with Kennedy is no more a curse, it is a case of drunken driving causing a fatal accident.

True, they have had a series of mishaps, but consider this; if they were not so well-known, would we have heard of them?