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TIL In 1981 a scientist who was researching medical uses for magic mushrooms was killed in a robbery. The top suspects confessed to the crime on tape and their fingerprints were at the scene yet they were never charged, the DEA later admitted they destroyed the evidence linking them to the crime.

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