It’s a familiar story: eccentric inventor in excellent health mysteriously suffers a fatal heart attack or unusual drug overdose; the body is cremated by authorities without the family’s knowledge and, more often than you’d expect, without an autopsy taking place.

I’m sure you’ve heard this scenario described on many occasions… and not just after the demise of ground-breaking scientists but also government whistleblowers and outspoken public figures.

The king of rock and roll Elvis Presley, Doors frontman Jim Morrison and sex bomb Marilyn Monroe are three classic examples, with conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths taking on lives of their own... FULL STORY