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   >>> now to a bizarre death investigation involving britain's version of the cia. two years ago, a british spy was found dead, stuffed inside a bufl bag in his bathtub. it's a mystery that investigators battled, once again, trying to figure out who done it and how.

   >> reporter: he worked for the same intelligence service featured in james bond movies . his body was found zipped into a duffel bag , padlocked and left in his bathtub. was it murder or self-inflicted? two years later, police still don't know, but they believe it's unlikely he was alone. reconstructions shone this week demonstrate how difficult it is to climb into a similar bag unaided. when williams died, he had just returned from a working visit to the national security agency in the u.s.

   >> garrett williams was working on an important matter of national security .

   >> reporter: but his death in this apartment left a puzzling crime scene. in the living room, a woman's wig on a chair. in a bedroom, two bags packed with women's designer clothes and dresses worth $30,000 and on a table, his cell phone with the data cards removed. williams was missing for days before the intelligence offices he worked with called the police.

   >> one of our members of staff who lives in london is missing.

   >> reporter: why did it take british intelligence across the river there, so long to raise the the alarm about their missing colleague? a man who spent his career solving puzzles, now the center of a terrible mystery. his work was so secret, even his family cannot be told what he did, but they want to know what happened. they do not believe speculations that he was taking part in a sex game . a former landlady said she had once found him tied to a bed unable to escape. others question whether he was killed because of his secretive work. a spy who lived a mysterious life and whose death is still unexplained.

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