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The Body in Room 348

www.vanityfair.com True Crime: How a Mysterious Beaumont, Texas, Murder Was Solved

After a murder at the Elegante Hotel in Texas stumped local police, investigator Ken Brennan looked at the case with fresh eyes. Mark Bowden on what he found.

True Crime: How a Mysterious Beaumont, Texas, Murder Was Solved

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries.

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