Call me crazy, but I think Danny Casolaro...

[Hambone2421]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

Michael Riconosciuto was serving a 30 year sentence for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine during the filming of this segment. UM simply says it was a "drug charge". Why they bothered to give this crack pot airtime is beyond me.

Yep. Basically anyone that Casolaro was associating with and getting information from regarding this story was a loon.

[Robert Stack's Voice]

Originally Posted by Hambone2421

Yep. Basically anyone that Casolaro was associating with and getting information from regarding this story was a loon.

Danny was chasing conspiracy theories. He never shared his notes so we don't know if he actually uncovered anything.

I believe it was suicide. I believe Danny showed up to West Virginia and realized he had found another dead end. I think the realization that you wasted literal years of your life chasing dead ends is pretty heavy. I don't think he could handle the embarrassment that would come with ultimately coming up heavy handed.

I just find it hard to believe that he was murdered in such a gruesome way without anyone hearing it. He was on the 5th floor of the Sheraton so someone whether on either side or below him would have heard something.

The murder angle makes sense if either of these happened:

The murderer hit him with a tranquilizer dart as soon as he opened the door and mimicked his handwriting for the "suicide note."

Someone roofied him in the bar and followed him upstairs where he passed out.

For there to be no noise, Danny would have had to be unconscious pretty much from the moment his hotel door opened.

[TheCars1986]

The suicide note cannot be explained if you believe he was murdered. I recently watched this segment and forgot how ridiculous the "octopus" really was. He actually thought this random software company was tied to every single scandal in the 1980s?

[bigted12]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

The suicide note cannot be explained if you believe he was murdered. I recently watched this segment and forgot how ridiculous the "octopus" really was. He actually thought this random software company was tied to every single scandal in the 1980s?

I think that people go to two extremes...either that danny knew all the worlds darkest secrets, so bush snr sent a hitman to whack him.... or depressed he killed himself.

nobody is willing to accept that theres maybe something inbetween, i mean you're right, unless danny had some secret files, he didn''t know anything special, he wasn't the first person to talk about inslaw, he wasn't the first to mention iran contra...

but i don't know if i 100% buy the suicide explaination, he was getting death threats, this was verified by his maid and his brother, an eye witness at the hotel saw someone go into his room with dark hair, the way we're told he severed his wrists was way over the top for suicide...

maybe it doesn't have to be "high level CIA assassins" but if he stuck his nose into things like that indian reserve and someone who was making 100k a year on untaxed tobacco decides paying someone 2k to shut danny up is worth it..

this seems more plausible to me.