This story is quite old but it indeed caught my eye. In the late 1900's a man named John Lake was researching sports and about black people given the right to play as well. "In his last year at the magazine, Lake authored three cover stories (nine in four years) on such varied topics as "The Black Athlete", the Indy 500 and the World Series Lake was hired as a ghostwriter for Bob Gibson's autobiography and had all but submitted the work" "John Lake was last seen in midtown Manhattan, New York City on Sunday, December 10, 1967. At that time, he was walking toward the subway to go home. A missing persons report was filed by his wife, Alice, four days later. His disappearance was investigated by the Pinkerton Detective Agency which was hired by Newsweek. Years after, a police officer from missing persons showed his son a February 1968 photo of a corpse who closely resembled Lake but could not be positively identified."
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