The Origins of Ettory's Abandonment

A number of Ettory's relatives and friends allegedly stated that they believed he might have been kidnapped. This could stem from a desire to deny the possibility that Ettory vanished willingly, either by suicide or by running away. People wanted to believe that he hadn't abandoned everyone in his life of his own accord because the alternative is much more hurtful. The second origin of this theory is comic books which feature Ettory as a reluctant scientist who does battle with Nazi and Soviet spies. He even uses his genius inventions to travel to other dimensions. As is sometimes the case with these kinds of mysteries, the popular fiction became entwined with the fractured real story and created a widely propag