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In 1961, 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller, disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea. Tragedy struck when his catamaran overturned. The two local guides swam to shore but what happened to Michael is shrouded in controversy and mystery. The main and most terrifying theory is that he swam to shore where he was captured, killed and cannibalised by natives in an act of revenge for the killing of numerous villagers by a Dutch colonial patrol in 1958. This theory is detailed in the 2014 book, Savage Harvest, written by Carl Hoffman, in which he presents the inquest into his disappearance, revealing that elders of the tribe confess to killing and cannibalising him.