The Next Great Murder Mystery
Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait 1889
60 Minutes spent some time this weekend looking at Vincent Van Gogh, the brilliant painter behind Starry Night and the alienated madman who cut off his ear after being abandoned by a friend.
But what you think you know about Van Gogh may just need to go out the Window of Vincent’s Studio at the Asylum.
Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Steve Naifeh and Greg Smith have spent the past 10 years investigating the man whose suicide became the thing of legend thanks to a 1956 film Lust for Life. They’ve affirmed his diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy and the influence of his brother Theo on his painting. But they’ve also discovered some holes in the suicide story that may just mean murder.
Dunh, dunh, dunhhhhh. Watch.
