Stories from Sarasota, Flórida, Estados Unidos

Christine Chubbuck: the journalist beyond the 1974 broadcast

Christine Chubbuck’s death during a live Sarasota programme became a story about television and an elusive recording. This dossier recovers her work, compares 1974 records with later testimony, and examines the ethical limits of retelling her life.

292 km · Miami

Roberto Wagner Fernandes: three women, two decades, and an identification after death

Florida investigators linked Roberto Wagner Fernandes by DNA to the killings of Kimberly Dietz-Livesey, Sia Demas and Jessica Good in 2000-2001. The trail runs through the Brazilian trial over Danyelle Bouças Fernandes’s death, an exhumation, and suspicions about other crimes that remain unproven.

471 km · Havana

Havana Syndrome: real symptoms, disputed origins

Since 2016, diplomats and relatives have reported sudden episodes of pressure, sounds, and vertigo. Studies, investigations, and official assessments diverged; the withdrawal of two intelligence reports in 2026 reopened the dispute without settling the cause.

651 km · Península de Guanahacabibes

Cuba’s “sunken city”: what sonar found off Guanahacabibes

A shipwreck survey revealed geometric shapes as deep as 750 metres. Sonar, a small underwater robot and an unsampled plate fed the lost-city theory, but the evidence does not yet establish a city.