Leo Ryan Folsom Prison as an inmate. During his time in Congress, Ryan traveled to Newfoundland to investigate the practice of seal hunting. He was also famous for vocal criticism of the lack of Congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and authored the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, passed in 1974. Ryan was shot and killed at an airstrip in Guyana in November 1978 while his party was attempting to escape a dangerous situation. He had traveled to Guyana to investigate claims that people were being held against their will at the Peoples Temple Jonestown settlement. Ryan was killed the same day of
Who Killed the Robins Family? The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1984 in January 1984. Who Killed the Robins Family? Who Killed the Robins Family? is a mystery/contest novel created by Bill Adler and written by Thomas Chastain. The first edition () was published in hardcover format by William Morrow in 1983. Warner Books published the paperback edition in 1984 (). Who Killed the Robins Family? is a mystery novel in which all eight members of the Robins family are murdered or disappear throughout the story. The hardcover book provided no solutions to the murders. The books were also a contest where the