THE BODY IN ROOM 348 | Vanity Fair
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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. Bent on tracking down his killer, Fleniken's widow, Susie, turned to private investigator Ken Brennan, the subject of a previous Vanity Fair story. Once again, as MARK BOWDEN reports, it was Brennan's sleuthing that cracked the case
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Original Title: TIL In 2010, Greg Fleniken was found dead inside his locked Texas hotel room. He had no obvious external injuries but massive internal damage. His death was ruled a homicide. After an 8-month investigation, it was found that a drunk guest in the next room accidentally shot Fleniken in the scrotum.