What Ever Happened to Michael Rockefeller? 50 Years of Silence. The Priests Knew.

In November 1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of Nelson Rockefeller and heir to America's most powerful family.. swam toward the shore of Dutch New Guinea and was never seen again. The official cause of death is drowning. The documentary record, drawn from Dutch colonial files, missionary accounts, and villagers who were there, tells a very different story, one that three institutions quietly agreed never to tell.