Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson, a businessman, is credited with making Thai silk a global commodity. He was a former OSS agent who moved to Thailand and launched one of the world’s most successful business ventures, becoming a wealthy socialite by 1967. That was the year he embarked on a Malaysian biking trip. He never came back. Other Bangkok business people could have assassinated him, the Thai government, the Asian anti-CIA faction, or even the CIA. He didn’t just die in the woods, though, because he had received survival training.
Jim Thompson
John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan
Lord Lucan became so fed up with battling his wife for custody of their three children, as well as spying on and recording their phone conversations, that he decided to bludgeon her to death in a darkened room in 1974. But, instead of killing his hated wife, he killed Sandra Rivett, his children’s beloved nanny. He vanished after the murder and was never found. Some say he went missing in Africa and died in the wilderness, while others say he jumped into a river and was eaten by tigers at a private zoo.
John Bingham, 17th Earl Of Lucan
