Danny Casolaro was an investigative journalist
working to uncover a secret group controlling the CIA and White House. He told
his friends that if he is found dead, it wouldn't be a suicide. He was found
dead after meeting with an unknown source.
was an American freelance writer who
came to public attention in 1991 when he was found dead in a bathtub in room
517 of the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, his wrists slashed
10–12 times. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide
It’s all very suspicious because his was in
Martinsburg to meet a source about a story he called "the Octopus". He
was researching a sprawling collaboration involving an international cabal and was
focusing in on the “Inslaw case”, a software manufacturer whose owner accused
the Justice Department of stealing its work product, the October Surprise theory
that during the Iran hostage crisis Iran deliberately held back American
hostages to help Ronald Reagan win the 1980 presidential election, and
Iran-Contra.
Much pointed to the possibility of him being murdered, because he told
his brother that he had been frequently receiving threatening phone calls late
at night, and that if something were to happen to him while in Martinsburg, it
would not be an accident. In addition, he was squeamish and feared blood tests,
and they likelihood of him committing suicide by slashing his wrists almost a
dozen times seems unlikely. Police detectives thought his death needed further investigation.
It’s still unknown what really happened to Danny
Casolaro. He was meeting dead ends in his investigation of the biggest story of
his life. Even his best friends told him the story seemed doubtful. Did the
commit suicide, miles from home, out of hopelessness and frustration, or was he
murdered because he knew too much about a scandal that reached to the highest
levels of government?
Here is a well-written documentation of Danny Casolaro’s murder from Unsolved Mysteries.
Robert Morton is a member of the Association
of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), enjoys writing about the U.S.
Intelligence Community, and relishes traveling to the Florida Keys and Key
West, the Bahamas and Caribbean. He combines both passions in his Corey Pearson- CIA Spymaster series. Check out his latest spy thriller: MISSION OF VENGEANCE
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