Danny Casolaro and The Octopus Conspiracy | Case File 259

At about noon on August 10, 1991, housekeeping staff of the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia discovered American freelance journalist Danny Casolaro naked in the bathtub of room 517. His wrists had been slashed deeply. There were three or four wounds on his right wrist and seven or eight on his left. Blood was splattered on the bathroom wall and floor; and the scene was so gruesome that one of the housekeepers fainted when she saw it. The death was ruled a suicide, but, details began to emerge that may have signaled foul play. Danny was about to break a story about...