Mystery
Jul 12 2008, Heidi

Like alien autopsies and the second gunman, the belief that someone other than a glover’s son from Stratford wrote William Shakespeare’s plays is a conspiracy theory that refuses to die.

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Ardana Irvin, leaning on railing, and others stand outside the apartment of Andrea Curry-Demus on Ella Street in Wilkinsburg, Penn. after a woman’s body was found inside the apartment Friday, July 18, 2008. Investigators found the body of a woman with...