First thoughts on 434: I'm still trying to work out (hopefully without getting too graphic about it, imagination can be a curse) how exactly can you stab a sheep to death with a cross made out of hay? (page seven, Satanism in Hampshire). Hay would not be my first choice for a stabbing weapon. It lacks a certain something.
The Roman Catholic exorcist who was formerly a high-flying financier in the City. (also page seven). I'd love it if he renounced his previous life and took on the big one: the demon Mammon who warps human minds out of greed. Now that would be a scalp and the world might arguably be a better place!
The conspiracy theories about the submarine deaths: there's the one that says the billionaires faked their own deaths, for whatever reason, and never got on the sub at all (knowing retrieving any bodies was going to be impossible and their deaths would be presumed.). The idea is that they chose to take on new identities and live in obscurity. In which case they'd need access to the cash - so the first thought is that however they do this, there would be a clear paper trail to follow? (And why bother doing this in the first place - what are the advantages, apart from the insurance cash?) Conspiraphere this month is a really amazing exercise in how quickly a new conspiracy theory, or a new warren of rabbitholes, can appear overnight with incredible speed, like fast-growing mushrooms. (the "Fairy Ring" idea... now there's another metaphor for conspiracy theories!)
Right, now to carry on reading further than halfway.