Nelson Rockefeller was governor of New York and vice president under Gerald Ford, but it was his son who met with a suspicious demise. Michael Rockefeller was collecting artifacts in New Guinea when he vanished, his boat found floating 12 miles from shore. Given the lack of evidence, his death was officially ruled a drowning.
In 2014, Carl Hoffman published a book titled Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, in which he claims to have gone deep into the culture of the land’s native tribes of Asmat, immersing himself in a warring culture that often performs ritualistic cannibalism. In this book, witnesses come forward and admit to killing and consuming Rockefeller, as rumors at the time often alleged had happened. However, given the lack of actual evidence, this case still remains officially “unsolved.”
