John Louis Brown

In June of 1964, a man named John Louis Brown, a resident of Rochester, New York, vanished and was never seen again. His disappearance remained a mystery for a time, a quiet ripple in the city's daily life. Brown was a coworker of a man named James Turner at the Nabisco plant in Rochester. Their connection, however, appeared to be more than just a professional acquaintance, as Brown had a $5,000 life insurance policy that listed Turner as the beneficiary.

Though John Louis Brown's body wa ...