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Officials found dead Rudolf, Austrian crown prince, heir to Franz Josef I, with his mistress in Mayerling, his hunting lodge near Vienna, and declared a double suicide; the event, a mystery, spawned numerous rumors.
Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph, archduke and only son of emperor of Hungary and Bohemia in a murder.