The Unsolved Star Wars Murders 

"Of COURSE he committed suicide! The guy shot himself in the head 6 times before burying himself in a shallow grave. I see this one all the time."

In defense of the Medical Examiner, He probly doesnt want to have a "stroke" either.

I love how when theres a random suicide in a random backwater town and it gets a full investitgation. But when a man gets bound, tied and has a plastic bag over his head its just an accident.

"All of the men had also recently found new jobs and were preparing to leave within days of their deaths. Also, they had all recently arranged appointments with their representative politicians." Well there's your problem!

"Oh you're starting a new job are you? Right on I wish you luck. Hey just out of curiousity you got any tooth fillings?"

Definitely misread as “macaroni murders”

These deaths sound like the work of a hitman who has an artistic side and really enjoys his work.

9:33 "Also, they had all recently arranged appointments with their representative politicians."

25 scientists, that's more than 24 *DAMN.*

This actually creeped me out. The tree thing was just... Insane.

I’m addicted to your videos. I have a That Chapter “problem”.

*I was a "pure science" researcher in the latter half of the 1980s, and word of the Marconi deaths had spread far, wide, and as fast as the programs these people were attached to. Interesting note: the vast majority of these deaths were people [believed to be] assigned to radar systems, so they were all working on so-called "hot" or "kinetic" projects. The pure science research people seemed unaffected, but certainly no less nervous. I knew several people at the time who turned down SDI projects money out of fear they wouldn't be around to spend it. You have to remember that the Soviet Union saw the SDI programs as literally life or death for the Soviet Union, and in the end, these programs had a large part in the dissolution of the CCCP. Nobody had any doubt whatsoever that working on SDI could be very very bad for your health, as the KGB was not playing on this one. Even people working in the U.S. domestic market were spooked, as was federal law enforcement (lots of folks, including myself, got very unpleasant visits from federal agents for little or no reason at all, simply because these people were completely tech illiterate, and it was a period when tech was just starting to become widespread enough to be within the pervue of the mere "average" academics (while the law enforcement services had not a single clue what anything was, or how anything worked, or what should be considered normal or abnormal for a worker in these areas to own).* *The short version is that the 1980s SUCKED. We are all very glad they are over for good (especially SDI, which in my opinion [and in many others opinion as well] was just a huge bluff designed to bankrupt the Soviet Union by convincing them to try and "keep up" with programs that were pure fantasy island material! For instance, the "X-Ray Laser" platforms in orbit that were supposed to shoot down incoming missiles - lasers need a LOT of power. The SDI gave them their juice, in theory, by detonating an atomic bomb to provide the power for the laser to shoot a few beams at missiles. And since they were literally orbiting bomb platforms, (a) they could only be used once, regardless of effectiveness, and (b) blowing up all of thos platforms simultaneously, to "power the defense shield", would likely have stripped the planetary atmosphere away, resulting in the death of 100% of everyone! Not the kind of weapon you use **_defensively,_** right? I mean, wouldn't the defense team like to survive the "war"? Isn't that why these orbital platforms were supposedly going up there? SDI was pure hockum, but it did it's job. It scared the crap out of the CCCP, and played a huge role in ending the cold war.*

The murderers were trying to “One up” each other. Smh

This case reminds me of the scene in *_Good Will Hunting_* where the military recruiter asks the protagonist "Well, son, why *_wouldn't you_* want to work for the defense department?!" Yes. What could possibly go wrong? LOL

This was like a new show called “most inventive ways to die”

So they seemed to stop as quickly as they started, that’s suspicious. Also as someone who has multiple failed suicide attempts I don’t believe for one second that all 25 would have been successful on the first try. I’ve tried different methods and your natural instincts kick in.

Did anybody happen to hang themselves using woven paper blankets while on suicide watch, in a federal prison, in NYC, with constant cameras on them and guards there on site to check on them every 30 minutes? No reason for the specific parameters to my question. Just casually curious 😉

Okay, but after a while these """circumstantial deaths"""" just got sloppy . Pills and bottles, all open but none in his system? Alright, that's not suspicious at all.

"perfect tires.. if you wanna lose control and drive off a road" was one of the most Dwight Schrute things you've ever said haha, great chan

I've never been into any tinfoil conspiracies, but I'd honestly say this is no way a conspiracy. This is real and I've always found it very chilling

It's amazing how they can say "suicide" was the cause of death, when you know damn well it was murder.... Goes to show how stupid those people think that the general public is. Great Video Mike.

You know what's also more than 24? Turdy-four.

These “suicides” and “accidental deaths” are something straight out of the movie Hot Fuzz wtf lol

I never see videos on this it seems. I know how this is going to sound, but bare with me here. My grandfather De'Shay was apart of this whole debacle. He was an engineer on the project.... (though idk if he's listed anywhere) My mom told me he was supposedly part of many classified projects with companies like NASA and government projects to do with aerospace, and of course, including the Star Wars program. According to her he went for a jog on the strand in CA along the beach and collapsed dead of a heart attack. My mom was called down first to identify the body, but it wasn't him. She said the body was shown was to short, eye color wrong, hair wrong and his arms were covered in needle marks. It simply wasn't him. My mom denied it was him, so they called my grandmother & uncle down to identify the body. After an hour in privet they declared it was him. My mom then went on confused and not understanding why her mom & brother would do that. The next day she was passing a payphone on her usual walk path that was ringing & decided to pick it up & it was my grandfather! He claimed he was fine & had to go away and that he left her some money and it would be in her bank account the next day and that he'd be back. She never heard or saw him again. She however did receive the money and found herself with a storage unit full of coded notes. My mom believed he never died, but was put into some sort of program like witness protection which was only reinforced when around in (I wanna say) 2010 a documentary or some news special aired they were reuniting someone with their parent whom had been part of the Star Wars program and given a new identity. Surely he's passed on by now, but my grandfather left behind a big mystery for us. Especially sense there is almost no digital documentation to hardly find beyond his birth certificate & maybe obituary sovwe have to rely in what physical documents we have & can find.

Marconi is currently hiring if any of y'all need a job.

Never thought I would say these words " Thank God i'm not a scientist."

So sad. I was in high school in the 70s and I would often ride my bike to my dads to work after school. He worked at the McDonnell Douglas missile and space division. I was known as Johnny‘s boy. People didn’t hesitate in talking around me and would even show me videos of weapons tests. The name Star Wars was used to ridicule the project as people thought the weapons that were talked about by news agencies were pure fantasy. You’ll have to take my word for it, those weapons and others did exist, as individual weapons. But I never heard anything about those weapons working as a system. By the timing it makes me think the people in the story we’re working on that, Getting everything to work together. As to the circumstances of the suicides it may be the perpetrators wanted to leave a messy scene not caring if it was declared a suicide, sure to make the news but also to send a message to others to stay in line or you too may meet with a suicide.

Ben Franklin said it best: Quote by Benjamin Franklin: “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

I checked... 25 is in fact more than 24

I love the little “Tree” written across the bottom of the screen when he said three years later hahahaha

Knowing that these murders were possibly a planned conspiracy that no one has ever been held accountable is depressing.

Sounds like the hit men we’re getting bored

What ever assassin or group of assassins this was was brutal AF

I'm laughing so much I could pee myself.. "Ever been so stressed you stripped wires and connected them to your tooth fillings?" 😂 good grief, this one is so ridiculous it's hilarious.

"...like the rod was used to wedge down a pedal!" - wich one? And how do you attach wires to the fillings of your own teeth? Like solder them on? Yourself?

I just found the channel a couple weeks ago and it's fun bouncing between older and newer videos and seeing the confidence Mike has gained on camera. Love you Mike 💙💙💙

Someone was clearly threatened by these people, the fact they were starting new jobs, and had appointments with politicians to blow the whistle, I'm assuming. Great video, very thought provoking.

25.. is more than 24?... Put on your foil hats everyone. We're in for a ride.

I just want to acknowledge the Editor acknowledging that our fine Host actually said "three" just after the 3:30 mark, at *tree tirty tree precisely.* Satisfyingly meta.

All of them already found a new job and were ready to leave... That sounds like a good way for Marconi to be sure that these employees wouldn't use Marconi's secrets in other organisations... It looks like ''Marconi's kiss of death''...

wait a second..... electrecuted to death VIA your TOOTH FILLINGS?!?!?!? what type of sicko did these hits lol its truly extraordinary

I love when you're content involves the government / military / intelligence community. They're extremely interesting as a topic in my opinion.

I remember this string of deaths involving Marconi staff while I was working for the Old Chron.I think I covered the first one mentioned in this video, when the Marconi man allegedly drove his car off the main road. I remember we used to chat about 'another Marconi suicide' and speculate their mysterious fate. The most bizarre I can recall was attending an inquest to hear that yet another brilliant Marconista had committed suicide. This science boff attached electrical wires to both his big toes and then set a timer to switch on after he had listened to an LP on his old fashioned cabinet radiogram. He lay down on the front room carpet, probably swallowed some sleeping pills, and, hopefully having made his peace with his maker, turned on the turntable. The most bizarre suicide I ever covered, and I covered them routinely. I wonder what piece of music he chose? Anyway when the music stopped, so did his heart. Not being into conspiracy theories back in the day, and not wanting to upset one of our biggest advertisers the editor resisted our attempts to investigate what was going on. Our kindly editor assured us that investigative journalism was the domain of Fleet Street and so we all went back to covering flower shows. And lived to tell this tale!

i have a family friend who worked for Underwater Sound Lab and died strangely at the age of 52 in Connecticut. he had alot to do with classified listening equipment for the military.

1:20 *"THAT'S 25 SCIENTISTS, THAT'S A LOT....MORE THEN 24"* I love the knowledge you share w/us, love your comedy & definitely love how you say anything w/3, your accent is awesome!!! THX for all you do bro!!!

Ahhh, the ole stripped wires tied to my fillings suicide. Classic.

Wha?! I feel like we need a more in depth one on this Mike my dude!

Once I was so stressed I went out and had a few beers. I never thought about tying wires to my tooth fillings, I'll remember that for next time.

How have I never heard of this before?! Now I am going on a google dive instead of working. Thanks, Mike! :D

Death by sexual misadventure was a favorite Soviet KGB tactic as even Ian Fleming recorded.

I think a couple of key points are that all of the victims had found another job and all of them had appointments with their state representative. They were working on top secret projects. They had been given "strange" assginments. I think they were uncomfortable with what the company was doing or planning to do. So they found another job and were going to voice their concerns. The fact that the owner of the company was also a victim, though, makes it seem like maybe it's another country...? Another important point is that the same company/project had employee victims in other countries...

"I think this Marconi fella just might be a jerk." - Norm MacDonald

I thought this said “The Unsolved Macaroni Murders” and I was gonna finally be exposed.

Wierd and mysterious ways of committing "suicide " for sure.

Every time I watch one of these, I see how many subs you have and they keep growing! That’s awesome! Love this channel 🤘🏻🔥

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

Don't know how anyone can call those suicides. Electrocution is also a common torture technique with the effects covered by the supposed suicide . Love the intriguing videos like these.

Defense companies are super shady. I worked for a few of them in 1980s. Scary stuff.

Definitely read that thumbnail as “Macaroni”

I am just starting this one - been binging this series about a week now or so I think.. hm... time. Anyway, big fan @That Chapter, you're crushing it bro. Looking forward to more content

Excuse me I have a job interview to cancel *immediately*

Glad you brought out of history. I remember this one and would like to see it investigated further.

"25, that's more than 24" lmao I love you Mike

Seems like the whole 'Pride' message hasn't yet reached the S&M scene- like you say, just a suggestion of 'sexual misadventure' is enough to trash a victim's reputation, even in 2019.

"25 is a lot of scientists, more than 24" 😂 ya got jokes, Mike.

I worked for Marconi from 1999 till it collapsed in 2003...always felt something not right with my bosses

This my favorite video so far! I've never heard of these events. Great job on outlining the events!

I see why you changed the name from Marconi murders to Star Wars murders. Because I absolutely read it as “macaroni murders”

Damn. And they thought they just had interesting and good jobs...didn’t even think that they would be murdered 😱😱😱 Men in Black coming to retrieve documents 😱😱😱

Mike you & your channel are my new addiction! I can’t get enough of you.

I stumbled upon your video series somewhat accidentally I love how in detailed you are about every episode thank you for making my lunch break interesting

15k views in 8 hours. You are getting there good sir.

2 dozen people working for the same company dying horrifically in very creative ways within a relatively short timespan? Obviously suicide case closed.

Surprised I never heard of this thanks for covering such a mysterious story

Clearly a cover up job. No loose ends when it comes to military intelligence agencies.

"Dead men tell no tales" - Somebody

Once again Mike, great content! I can't wait for you channel to blow up. :) Thanks so much for the effort you put into these!

I'm excited thanks for ur channel mike and each case u share with all of us .

4:13 "there was no reason for him to be in Bristol" - there's no reason for ANYONE to go to Bristol!!!!

Nothing suspicious at all about the Bristol lad. Maybe it was warm and he needed his vitamin injection, thus his pants were down and it was too warm to pull them back up and just fancied a swim. Your far, far too suspicious mike

I hate it when people tell others they are in fear for their lives and end up dead without having revealed any more details!!

Yes Mike, I frequently attach strip wires to my tooth fillings

OMG too horrific for words. But as usual the some of the comments were brilliant as you were Mr MIke! THanks AGAIN.

the black helicopters are now en-route to Ireland

One of your more interesting ones recently. I hadn't even heard of these cases yet. I love a deep cut into the real weird shit. You've come so far since starting, and you have improved so much. I've been here from the beginning and I can't wait to see where you go.

Love your work ! Keep these vids coming boy. :)

Excellent video Mike. Thankyou.

why i will never work for a government or govt contractor exhibits A-Y

Yes mike, notification squad.. I watched everything else of yours and need more. 👍

This is truly amazing. I doubt it will ever be sorted because people would rather walk away. I feel deeply for these people and their families. The saddest thing is that there is always evidence. It's a question as to who has the key to the filing cabinet.

I love that you covered this one! Thank you!

Gonna be gone from the net for a time, no silly, this Hey You Grandma isn't going to jail, but wanted to wish you the best in getting up to that one hundred thousand "Hey You's"! You are an amazing narrator, researcher and all around cool dude, someone most of us here could sit and have a pint or two with, so keep that up for sure! Thought Cookies aren't really beer worthy munchies, but I'm sending them anyway with my appreciation for all the Hey You's here that make this place comfortable and interesting to sit around the campfire and hear stories with! I hope to be back soon, WITH my shiny metal hat, so everyone play fair and make wonderful, healthy, happy worlds to live in! Duces! : )

Lol, I liked your “tree” caption. I love how you pronounce your “th” words! Don’t ever feel like you have to change that! You’re one of the most genuine and respectful true crime vloggers, who doesn’t romanticize awful crimes, and we love every genuine thing about you!

Remarkable, how you are able to put all this content together, Mike👍 Am proud to be your Austrian subscriber! 🇦🇹

Mike, just wanted all y'all to know how much I enjoy this channel, hope nobody close to me is killed cause I'd be screwed as soon as they searched my tablet.....

Thank you for covering this... I'd forgotten all about it. As with most things in life, if you apply the rule of Occam's razor then the most logical explanation is usually the correct one (and yes, I know that's not strictly what Occam's razor refers to but it's the general idea). Although it's possible that Marconi, the UK government or the US government had these scientists killed off (and by "government" I mean a government entity, whether it's MI5, the CIA, etc.), it's more likely it was a foreign power. The Russians?

These are some of the most creative sounding suicides I’ve ever heard of.

This was the best video you did, do more of these over the sad and grotesque ones

Scary stuff, Mike!! Hope all's keeping well at your end...;-)

Wow, many of these deaths are favorite techniques for KGB agents. They are experts at attempting to stage deaths as suicides with glaring and idiotic mistakes. Almost as if they were taunting death investigators. Thus all the "open" verdicts. Another awesome vid Mike!