Carl McGunn - Died in 1981 in Alaska when confusion about who was picking him up resulted in him being abandoned to starve
A photographer’s dream Alaskan adventure turned into tragedy after a mix-up over who would bring him home left him stranded and alone, with his fate sealed by a simple misunderstanding.
John Birges Sr., who decided to recuperate his heavy gambling losses by planting a bomb in Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino to extort $10 million in 1980. The FBI ultimately failed to defuse the bomb “unlike any we’d seen before” and it exploded 34 hours later.
He thought his risky plan would win him $10 million, but instead the bomb exploded—and he didn’t get any money.
