He had become wealthy and famous by unearthing other people’s secrets, but the man known as Sheridan Bruseaux was keeping a few of his own. After a stint with an investigative firm in Chicago, Bruseaux had decided to go into business for himself. Discovering that many of the prejudices that afflicted his family in Arkansas and Louisiana had followed him to Chicago, Bruseaux took on a sideline gig investigating racial violence. And Sheridan Bruseaux sat atop that plenitude, scraping cream from the scandals of the affluent. In 1950, after a short illness, Sheridan Bruseaux passed away at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, at the age of 60.