Some mysteries don't stay unsolved because nobody tried hard enough.

They stay unsolved because the evidence was burned on purpose. Because
the only witness made a permanent decision to stay silent. Because the
statute of limitations ran out and the case was formally closed. Because
the one person who could answer the question in one sentence has simply,
consistently, chosen not to.

This video is about eleven of those mysteries. Not cold cases waiting
for a better detective. Doors that were welded shut — sometimes
deliberately, sometimes by accident, sometimes just because too many
years and too many dead witnesses got in the way before anyone thought
to ask the right question.

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00:00 – Sacred Mystery
01:34 – The Identity of Banksy
03:40 – The Original Cut of Star Wars (1977)
05:03 – The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
06:24 – The Toynbee Tiles
08:42 – The Max Headroom Broadcast Hijacking
10:46 – The Ending of The Sopranos
12:27 – The Disappearance of D.B. Cooper
14:44 – The Real Farmhouse from Courage the Cowardly Dog
16:09 – The Origin of the "Cool S" Doodle
17:55 – The Zodiac Killer (Revisited & Unsolved)
19:46 – The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart



SOURCES

Banksy — Queen Mary University of London geographic profiling study
(2016); Christie's auction records; court documents (Robin Gunningham)

Star Wars original negative — George Lucas interviews; Lucasfilm
archival documentation; preservation records

William Desmond Taylor — Los Angeles Police Department historical
records; contemporary newspaper accounts (1922); Bruce Long "William
Desmond Taylor: A Dossier" (1991)

Toynbee Tiles — Resurrect Dead documentary (2011); Philadelphia
Inquirer archival coverage; urban researcher documentation

Max Headroom Broadcast Hack — FCC investigation records (1987); WGN
and WTTW contemporary reporting; Museum of Classic Chicago Television

Tony Soprano — David Chase interviews; The Sopranos official production
documentation; Chase interview with DGA Quarterly

D.B. Cooper — FBI NORJAK investigation records; case closure statement
(2016); 1980 cash discovery documentation

Courage the Cowardly Dog — John R. Dilworth interviews; Cartoon Network
production records

Cool S — Know Your Meme documentation; academic folklore research;
Wikipedia origin investigation records

Zodiac Killer — FBI confirmation of 340 cipher solution (December 2020);
David Oranchak, Sam Blake, Jarl Van Eycke solution documentation

Amelia Earhart — TIGHAR expedition records; US Navy search
documentation (1937); National Geographic investigation coverage

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