# We have a real life mystery here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873 "2010-09-07T02:59:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/1 "2010-09-07T02:59:52Z")
> **[UK police ask for help in case of slain intelligence agent - CNN.com](https://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/06/uk.spy.dead/index.html?hpt=T1)** > > Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month's death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom. > [@](#): > > Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month’s death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom. … The crime scene did not seem to reveal much information. > > “There was no sign of any forced entry to the property, and no signs of disturbance inside,” … An August 25 autopsy “established no obvious cause of death,” police said. … Sooooooooo… Apparently the police don’t know what or who killed him. In the comments, the theories range from the CIA to Mossad to ex KGB enemies to Darth Vader (the force choke). I suspect the Scanners. > **[Wiki Visual](https://wikivisual.com/)** > > Animation and cartoons are two words that are mostly used interchangeably. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/2 "2010-09-07T03:01:17Z")
Anybody put out a call to [Sherlock](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/) yet? ---
**Author:** ![Debon\_Err](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/3 "2010-09-07T03:08:16Z")
I was thinking more along the lines of a [Sure Lock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aikg6OP3jwU)scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/4 "2010-09-07T03:18:40Z")
Find out Lisabeth Satanders were abouts for the period in question. Declan ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/5 "2010-09-07T03:26:31Z")
> [@](#): > > whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom Bloody smart-ass suicides. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/6 "2010-09-07T03:50:43Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Bloody smart-ass suicides. He’s a reverse Houdini. Which, I guess, would make him a iniduoH. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/7 "2010-09-07T08:57:49Z")
It’s interesting the police here still aren’t totally sure it was murder - there was clearly someone else involved in the death (i.e. whoever closed the padlock), but it could be a weird sex game gone wrong, or a drug overdose followed by a panicked attempt to clean things up, so a suicide who asked a friend to help make sure he didn’t leave a horrible mess behind. It’s not even clear whether he was dead when he got in the bag (I think this is probably though). I reckon it was the French. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/8 "2010-09-12T18:50:36Z")
Well… latest update is that a female police officer has tested the scenario using a similar sports bag, and it turns out not only is it possible to climb in and zip the bag up, it’s also possible to close a padlock from inside. So the “weird sex game gone wrong” theory isn’t perhaps so far fetched. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-real-life-mystery-here/552873/9 "2010-09-12T20:34:08Z")
Cmon, guys, British Intelligence, mysterious death. It doesn’t PROVE the death was related to his work, but I’d be working that angle REALLY HARD if there were no other obvious ones. Odds are someone has given the cops the “back off” sign.