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Medici family murder mystery may be solved after over 400 years with new DNA analysis - CNN

By Jacopo Prisco

Medici family murder mystery may be solved after over 400 years with new DNA analysis - CNN

New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.

Since the mysterious deaths of a husband and wife in the Medici family, a powerful Italian dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany almost uninterruptedly from 1434 to 1737, rumors have swirled about … [+8509 chars]

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