1974: A Moonrock is stolen from the University of Missouri’s Museum of Natural History in Smithton, Mo. (real-life Columbia)
That’s another one missing! More than half of the roughly 270 Moonrocks the Apollo program brought back are AWOL. Estimated value? $8 million plus. That’s for one tiny chunk of rock.
Who took Missouri’s lunar sample? Why has it not surfaced since Blazing Saddles ruled the box office? It’s up to private investigator Peter Pike to follow a half-century-old lead and connect the dots from a wayward wife to a drunken heiress and a sinister lawyer. Will Pike find the rock? Or will the wife, heiress and lawyer make sure Pike falls face first into filthy Jimson Creek and stays there?
