Who was Robert Maxwell?

This episode from Stuff You Should Know examines the life and death of Robert Maxwell, a man described as a publisher, mogul, spy, politician, and crook. The show treats those overlapping identities as central to understanding who he was. The main question is whether his fatal fall from a yacht was murder. It frames the death as unresolved rather than a settled accident, and asks listeners to weigh the mysteries of his life against the circumstances of his death.