From Slate.com: It was a chilling video. Rodrigo Rosenberg, a Harvard-educated lawyer in Guatemala City, recorded an 18-minute video where he talked into the camera and said: "If you are watching this message, it is because I have been murdered by Alvaro Colom," Guatemala's president. Rosenberg said he likely wouldn't live long because of his involvement with a corruption scam that involved the highest levels of Guatemala's political power.

Two days later, hitmen shot and killed the 47-year-old. The video was uploaded to YouTube and broadcast repeatedly on TV, creating a political crisis that threatened to topple Colom. But now a U.N. investigation has concluded, in what the Guardian describes as "a plot twist worthy of Agatha Christie," that Rosenberg hired the hitmen himself. "He decided to sacrifice his life in exchange for a change in the country," the head of the U.N. commission said. "There can be no other explanation." The investigation found that Rosenberg was trying to deal with a number of personal issues, including the death of his mother, a divorce, and the murders of his girlfriend and a client, which he blamed on government officials. He then carried out an elaborate plan that involved using two new cell phones to communicate with the hitmen and leave threatening messages in his own line.