Musick to unravel ‘Howard Hughes’ Mystery

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Musick to unravel ‘Howard Hughes’ Mystery

Mark Musick shook and rattled Pike County in August with his claim that Verner Nicely, the reclusive husband of native Eva McLelland, was actually Howard Hughes – the Howard Hughes.

Musick backed his claim with detailed “proof” in the book, “Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes,” written by Douglas Wellman. Musick and Wellman worked together to gather research to substantiate the information provided to Musick by McLelland after her husband’s death in 2002.

McLelland’s claim was that Hughes had assumed the identity of Verner Nicely, who disappeared while working with the CIA in Panama in the late 1960s. Nicely and McLelland married in the Canal Zone in 1970.

McLelland further claimed that the longhaired, bearded, emaciated, reclusive “Howard Hughes” who died in 1976 was a stand-in who was either mentally ill or addicted to drug.

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