What the newspapers never printed.

The 1966 scandal is where the public record stops. What came next, the family spent sixty years uncovering.

What is in the sealed file?

You have read the six files. You know how it looks from the outside.

You know a seventeen-year-old vanished from Washington, surfaced in Caracas married and a mother, and walked into a courtroom where a fortune was being taken apart in front of her. You know about the empty grave, the pawned jewels, the mistress who lost no sleep.

What you do not know is what the newspapers never had. The reporters had seventy-two hours and a scandal. The family kept the other sixty years, and everything with it. The letters the courts never saw. The diary an Argentine detective carried into a police station. The banking correspondence. The single question that has never closed: was Othmar Hitz murdered, who really took the estate, and is any of it still in a Swiss bank.

Inside The Sealed File

I
The first chapter, by email. The opening of the memoir, the writing that turned this archive into a book, sent the moment you sign up.
II
The clippings, with the family's pen marks. The front pages as the family kept them, underlines and tape still on them, and what each one meant, from the granddaughter who assembled the record.
III
The open questions. The murder the widow never stopped naming, and the Swiss bank the 1963 wires said was holding the money, laid out as they stand: unresolved.
IV
First access to every unsealing. New documents are opened as the story is told. You get them first.

The Sealed File

What the newspapers never printed

If you remember the Hitz family, come forward
Switzerland · Venezuela · Washington. The people who remember are running out of time

Or leave your email and start with the opening chapter.

You are on the list, first through the door. The first chapter is on its way to your inbox.

One story. No noise. Unsubscribe anytime. Privacy

The ending belongs to the book and the series. What opens is the door the newspapers never walked through.

← Back to File 06