Mysteries: The Man Who Knew Too Much?

A writer looking into a tangle of conspiracies is found in a hotel room, his wrists slashed. The verdict is suicide. Or was it murder?

Joseph Daniel Casolaro believed he was on to a big story. He also thought it might be a dangerous one. Just a few weeks ago, the free-lance writer told his family in Fairfax, Va., that someone might try to kill him and make it look like an accident. On Aug. 10 he was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, W. Va., where he had gone to meet an unnamed source. There were slash marks around his wrists and a note near his body. It read in part, "I'm sorry, especially to my son." The official verdict: suicide.

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