12. Jim Thompson
The businessman who transformed Thai silk into a global commodity was Jim Thompson. He moved to Thailand and started one of the most successful business ventures in the world’s history, becoming a rich socialite by 1967, a former agent of the OSS. That was the year he left for a Malaysian bike trip. Never returned. His huge home, pictured above, is now in Thailand as a museum.
Jim Thompson
13. John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan
In 1974, Lord Lucan got fed up fighting his wife for custody of their three children, spying on them, recording their telephone conversations, and decided in a darkened room to bludgeon her to death. However, the issue with murder in a darkened room is that you couldn’t verify your target. Thus, instead of killing his hated wife, he ended up killing Sandra Rivett, the beloved nanny of his children. He vanished after the murder and was never found.
John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan
