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King Ludwig Death Probed Anew
King Ludwig Death Probed Anew

King Ludwig Death Probed Anew

Bullet holes in coat suggest murder over official version of suicide

(Newser) - A Munich banker has added fuel to theories that Bavaria's "Mad" King Ludwig II, thought to have committed suicide by drowning, was assassinated in 1886, Der Spiegel reports. When Detlev Utermöhle was 10, a countess close to Ludwig's family showed him the coat Ludwig wore the night he...

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