Arrr, Matey! Coin Discovery May Prove Murderous Pirate Escaped to New England 

It was the first “worldwide” manhunt and one of the oldest unsolved mysteries of the ages: No one knew what happened to the murderous English pirate after he led a deadly ambush in 1695 of a royal ship owned by the Indian emperor. Historical accounts say the pirates killed the men aboard the Indian ship before escaping to the Bahamas and then Ireland. But more than a dozen 1600s coins minted in Yemen and unearthed by a metal detectorist in New England tell a potentially different tale.