Forty-eight-year-old Andre Mizelas was a royal hairdresser in London, England, a wealthy part-owner of twenty salons in the fashionable Andre Bernard chain. He didn’t seem to have an enemy in the world.
But on November 9th, 1970, a cyclist found him slumped over the steering wheel of his Triumph TR5 sports car in Hyde Park. He had been shot twice in the head with a .25 handgun, likely through an open passenger door. Nothing in the car was stolen or otherwise disturbed.
During the investigation, a woman came forward and told police she had been driving behind Andre shortly before his death, and had seen a man jump out of the bushes on the side of the road and flag down Andre’s car. She claimed that Andre had braked so suddenly that she’d almost rear-ended him. A description of the man was circulated, but the individual was never found.
Even more ominously, authorities learned that Andre had hired a private investigator to “keep an eye” on two men for some reason. Andre had actually scheduled an appointment to meet the investigator at his salon on Old Bond Street on November 10th, but he was murdered the day before the meeting.
The case has baffled police for decades, and it seems no closer to being solved, more than a half-century after it occurred.
Crime Immemorial 