The Gruesome Story Of A Billionaire Heir Who Was Eaten By Cannibals!

Mehek Kapoor
The Collector
Published in
12 min readJan 10, 2021

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The Family Portrait of Nelson Rockefeller
The Family Portrait of Nelson Rockefeller

When you think about death, you also think about the ways in which you can die, and not all of them are peaceful or pleasant. In medieval times, there used to be many creative ways to execute people, but this story isn’t about that.

This story is about a billionaire heir, someone who ‘should ideally’ have a lot of protection, a lot of security wherever he goes, and yet he was killed in the prime of his age.

This story is about none other than a Rockefeller — Michael Clark Rockefeller, the fifth child of the governor of New York and the future US Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller. A fourth generation of the wealthy Rockefeller family, who is believed to have been killed in the most gruesome way.

The Early Life Of Michael Rockefeller

How would you suppose the early life of a baby born to one of the richest and most powerful families in the world? Of course, with a golden spoon in its mouth. Rockefeller’s childhood was no different. Born in 1938, to Nelson and Mary Todhunter Rockefeller, Michael was the third son and fifth child of the couple.

Unlike his siblings, this Rockefeller was drawn to culture, art, and history right from a young age. After graduating from prestigious institutes like Phillips…

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