The mysterious deaths, murder conviction of Duane (“ Buck ”) Walker ( aka Wesley G. Walker ) and acquittal of his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, made headlines nationwide and led to a best-selling account written by Stearns's defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, and Bruce B. Henderson in the true crime book And the Sea Will Tell.

* Bruce Schneier, "' Body of Secrets ' by James Bamford: The author of a pioneering work on the NSA delivers a new book of revelations about the mysterious agency's coverups, eavesdropping and secret missions ," Salon. com, 25 April 2001.

Another more Corsair-like possibility is one of the guests at her Scottish home, Portray Castle, the older Lord George de Bruce Carruthers, a man who supports himself in a somewhat mysterious manner.

* Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (# 4 ; 2010 ): Hex is hired to take down a mysterious stranger in 1800's Gotham.

Shortly before the mysterious disappearance of Batman and the Final Crisis events Zatanna is stalked and targeted by Hush, wanting to get his vengeance over Bruce Wayne using the people he loves most: Zatanna herself and Selina Kyle.

Just when it seems he might finally solve the murder case, at a dinner party to which a number of important and mysterious guests have been invited, Inspector Bruce is killed -- and was last seen wearing a pair of Chinese slippers, which have vanished.

In addition to hunting the Hulk and being appointed head of security for Gamma Base where Ross was the commanding officer, Talbot was brought to the base for two other reasons, both of which were at the General's own behest: the first was to keep a close eye on civilian scientist Robert Bruce Banner, whom Ross and Talbot suspected not only to being a traitor because of Banner's constant disappearances, which, unknown to them at first, was due to his uncontrollable transformations into the Hulk ( the result of Banner's full exposure to Gamma Radiation unleashed from his Gamma Bomb after rescuing a teenager named Rick Jones from the restricted test area ), who prowled the area near the base, but they also both believed there was some mysterious connection between the two.

They come across Colonel Thomas Maguire ( Bruce Gray ), who says that they have to solve the code in order to leave the mysterious place.

The new team consisted of U. S. Agent ( John Walker, the fifth Captain America ); Union Jack ; a mysterious flame-generating girl named Tara ; former Liberty Legion member the Thin Man ( Dr. Bruce Dickson ), who remained ageless as, evidently, a by-product of his transformation in the super-scientific haven Kalahia ; and the Blazing Skull ( Mark Todd ), who remained ageless due to supernatural means.

He tells Bruce he knows his secret identity, and warns him of a new threat: a mysterious criminal known as " The Head of the Demon ".

The computer research also reveals that there are no records of Karidian's existence prior to Kodos ' death ; that there were nine known people left after the massacres who could identify Kodos, were he still alive ; that, in the intervening years, seven of these had died, all under mysterious circumstances ; that in each case of the deaths of the former witnesses, Karidian's acting troupe has been somewhere nearby ; and that the final two surviving witnesses — Captain Kirk and Lt. Kevin Riley ( Bruce Hyde )— are both on board the Enterprise.

While Andersen and the boys prepare for the cattle drive, a group of mysterious men led by " Long Hair " Asa Watts ( Bruce Dern ) show up asking for work.

Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed.

The mysterious Egerton Gospel appears to represent a parallel but independent tradition to the Gospel of John.

A mysterious interest appears to be attached to it, and now that so many precautions have been resorted to, and so much difficulty attends its inspection, the crowd is enormously enhanced, and the policemen at either end of the covered entrance have much trouble in restraining the struggling and impatient multitude.

In the latter enhanced version there appears a separation of material or large cut on the right arm of the creature and a mysterious object or deformity above the breasts.

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named " Solomon Kohan " appears in early 18th century London.

The Saint Steps In reveals that Templar is operating on behalf of a mysterious individual known as Hamilton who appears again in the next WWII-era Saint book, The Saint on Guard.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

The game chronicles the struggle of an older Link to clear the troubles of the interacting " Twilight Realm ", a mysterious force that appears around Hyrule.

It was suggested by Andreas Plaitakis and Roger Duvoisin in 1983 that the mysterious magical herb moly that appears in Homer's Odyssey is actually snowdrop.

This also was a great triumph for the new equation, as it traced the mysterious i that appears in it, and the necessity of a complex wave function, back to the geometry of space-time through the Dirac algebra.

Among other problems, Durandal has gone rampant and appears to be playing the humans against the Pfhor to further his own mysterious agenda ; ultimately leading the S ' pht, one of the races enslaved by the Pfhor, in a rebellion.

Mela drew the first map on which the mysterious continent of Earth appears in the unknown half of Earth — our antipodes.

Later during a three-part episode, Qui-Gon appears as a Force ghost twice ; first to Obi-Wan and later to Anakin when they, along with Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano, are trapped on the mysterious planet Mortis.

The story involves two American tourists who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years.

August Derleth identifies this mysterious entity with Hastur ( though Hastur appears in the same " Whisperer in Darkness " list with the Magnum Innominandum ), while Robert M. Price equates him with Yog-Sothoth -- though he also suggests that Shub-Niggurath's mate is implicitly the snake god Yig.

* In the 2009 film, Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty appears as a shadowy, mysterious villain employing Irene Adler.

There, Lisle ( Isabella Rossellini ) is revealed as a mysterious, wealthy socialite who appears to be in her thirties.

One day, a mysterious alien named Tatanga appears and hypnotizes the inhabitants of Sarasaland, including Daisy.

The second movement has a mysterious sounding introduction that creates an atmosphere of impending excitement, followed by a passage dominated by two harps, then the flowing waltz theme appears, derived from the idée fixe at first, and then transforming it.

A mysterious fleet led by Admiral Daala, loyal to Pallaeon, appears, accompanied by 100 Mandalorian mercenaries, and together, owing to Daala's experimental weapons, they send the Galactic Alliance Fleet into retreat.

Hermine also introduces Harry to a mysterious saxophonist named Pablo, who appears to be the very opposite of what Harry considers a serious, thoughtful man.

As Leto's eyes are opened to the Golden Path that will save mankind, a mysterious blind man known as The Preacher appears to undermine Alia and her priests in the eyes of the people.

In the episode " Skulls ," a mysterious figure ( Conrad Dunn ) appears out of nowhere, whom only Nikko can see, and guides Nikko.

Friendly characters who are non-playable include Tikal, a mysterious female echidna who appears whenever Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, E-102 Gamma and Big are sent back in time.

Gravely insulted, Prospero demands to know the identity of the mysterious guest so that they can hang him.

The character Woland ( a mysterious magician who is in fact Satan ) later gives the manuscript back to him, saying, " Didn't you know that manuscripts don't burn?

It is a story told as a sermon might be delivered: an allegory ... each scene is at once so simple and so charged and layered that it catches us again and again ... Somehow all of Bergman's own past, that of his father, that of his reading and doing and seeing, that of his Swedish culture, of his political burning and religious melancholy, poured into a series of pictures which carry that swell of contributions and contradictions so effortlessly that you could tell the story to a child, publish it as a storybook of photographs and yet know that the deepest questions of religion and the most mysterious revelation of simply being alive are both addressed.

" When she sings Sombre Dimanche ( Gloomy Sunday ), it's bewitching enough to make you want to know more about the woman behind the mysterious voice.

A return from the flat Earth now seems impossible, unless they are able to find its mysterious builders, so they embark on a journey to a structure they have spotted at the hub of the Disc, the only thing which does not match geographically with the Earth they know.

The New York Police were by now aware of the " Jafsie " newspaper advertisements and wanted to know who the mysterious Jafsie was, but Lindbergh refused to say anything.

He returned in " Joust 2 " as the blind ( He doesn't know why, it was a " mysterious accident ", but in reality was the lightning.

It was therefore almost with the foresight of a prophet that Conscience in 1830 wrote: " I do not know why but I find in the Flemish language indescribably romantic, mysterious, profound, energetic, even savage.

The letter was filled with the highest of praise, beginning: “ You, who uphold our tottering country against the torrent of despotism and intrigue ; you whom I know, as I know God, only through his miracles ....” Through their correspondence, the two developed " a deep and mysterious friendship that would last until the day died.

Cressida's character is as isolated from framing as the rest of the story-we never know how her life ends, there is no ' ever after ' for her, and even her beginning is mysterious to us.

The two women do not know each other, and yet they share a mysterious and emotional bond that transcends language and geography.

Chaz is unnerved when a mysterious phone caller seems to know every detail of that night.

That same day, the Queen asks Marguérite and Rodmilla if they know the mysterious Comtesse de Lancret, and they realize it must be Danielle.

* In the novel Velocity by Dean Koontz, the comatose wife of the main protagonist often makes incoherent references to the works of Dickens, the ' most mysterious ' coming from Dombey and Son, " I want to know what it says, the sea.

Nona is intrigued with the weapon and wants to know more about the mysterious guests.

Midway through the text, Abbey observes that nature is something lost since before the time of our forefathers, something that has become distant and mysterious which he believes we should all come to know better: " Suppose we say that wilderness provokes nostalgia, a justified not merely sentimental nostalgia for the lost America our forefathers knew.

To you, Rome, diocese of St. Peter and of the vicar of Christ, most beloved to this last servant of the servants of God, I give my most paternal and full blessing so that you, city of the world, will be always mindful of your mysterious vocation and with human virtue and Christian faith, know how to respond to your spiritual and universal mission, however long will be the world's history.

No name has ever even been established for the mysterious planet, but the inhabitants seem to know of Earth, Venus and Mars, referring to them by name in one episode.

Intrigued, Archer once again confronts Orgoth, demanding to know everything the Osaarians have learned about these mysterious aliens.

Jennings ' character is the most mysterious one ; in his verse, he only comments on the possession of money, singing " Now some folks are born to money / You know I wish ' em well / If the devil should ever want my soul / I swear I'd never sell ".

During a battle between the Greeks and Trojans, Diomedes is impressed by the bravery of a mysterious young man and demands to know his identity.

Michael does not know this yet, but his fearsome run in with the ghosts has given him a mysterious illness simply known as " The Fright ".

The novel tells a story of two young men from Earth, Anton and Vadim, who decide to go for a trip to Pandora, but are persuaded rather to travel to an uncharted planet by a mysterious man whom they know as Saul Repnin.