Michael Rockefeller's life and mysterious death, allegedly at the hands of cannibals, have recaptured the imagination of New York with the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the ...

The story of Michael C. Rockefeller's mysterious 1961 disappearance — his body was never found, leading to wild speculation he was cannibalized— is again making news as the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Michael Rockefeller disappeared on Nov. 19, 1961, after swimming away from his overturned catamaran several miles off the coast of New Guinea, seeking help for himself and an anthropologist companion.

Michael C. Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 "We were in the same crib until we were about 2½, and Michael, the adventurous one, climbed out. Michael was very inquisitive and independent.

Rockefeller, the youngest son of then-New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, never returned from that trip to a continent 9,000 miles away. Michael Rockefeller disappeared on Nov. 19, 1961, after ...

Michael C. Rockefeller, left, Adrianus Alexander Gerbrands, René S. Wassing, June 26, 1961. Michael was 22 when he traveled to what was then Dutch New Guinea for the first time, with a ...

On Nov. 19, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, 23, a son of then-New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of New Guinea. An heir to the Rockefeller oil fortune, he'd traveled there as ...