The Met’s new wing honors a vanished Rockefeller — who may have been kidnapped and eaten by cannibals

Source: New York Post

Dissatisfied at being remembered merely as oil barons, real estate tycoons, political bellwethers, and lavish philanthropists, at some point the Rockefellers began to specialize in dramatic exits. Politician Nelson, at least as Johnny Carson would tell it, died doing what he loved best: his aide and alleged mistress Megan Marshack. But it was Nelson’s son, Michael Rockefeller, whose tragic ending added “eaten by cannibals” to the family lore.