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Rocky Goes West

Paul Toohey

In 1961 Michael Rockefeller, son of billionaire and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, went missing in a notorious headhunting area of what was then West Papua New Guinea, today's Irian Jaya. Just two years earlier, inter-tribal warfare in the Asmat region had resulted in the ritual headhunting a...

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It was mentioned as a book that suggested the Rockefeller family hired a private investigator who returned with skulls potentially belonging to white men murdered by the tribe.

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There's a guy named Paul Tui who wrote a book called Rocky Goes West.

— Episode: Cannibals and Conspiracy: What Happened...

Episode: Cannibals and Conspiracy: What Happened to Michael...

It was mentioned as a book that suggested the Rockefeller family hired a private investigator who returned with skulls potentially belonging to white men murdered by the tribe.

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There's a guy named Paul Tui who wrote a book called Rocky Goes West.

Episode: Cannibals and Conspiracy: What Happened to Michael...

It was discussed as a book that provided a different narrative about the Rockefeller family's involvement in the search for Michael, specifically hiring a private investigator who supposedly returned with skulls of white men.

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There's a guy named Paul Tui who wrote a book called Rocky Goes West.

And he says there was an entirely different, distinct search. He says the Rockefeller family hired a private investigator.

And that's what I was asking about earlier, you know, with all of this press conference stuff that seemed like a lot of just bluster.

And perhaps the family did get some evidence that their son was murdered.

But this private investigator, according to Rocky Goes West, came back to New York with some skulls that were supposedly from white men who had been murdered by the tribe.

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