In his newly-released book, The Most Hated Woman in America: Madalyn Murray-O'Hair," investigative reporter Jon Rappoport claims that Mrs. O'Hair, the most famous atheist in the world, was murdered along with her two children, Jon and Robin. O'Hair, who many accept as the driving force behind removal of prayer from U.S. public schools in 1963, mysteriously disappeared from Austin, Texas, with her two adult children in September 1995. Rappoport states, "There is powerful evidence for a brutal killing here. The motive would be money, anywhere from a million to seventeen million, which Madalyn is reported to have siphoned off from her non-profit atheist organizations in Texas." The abrupt 1995 disappearance of Mrs. O'Hair and her children has, in turn, baffled Austin police, the Texas Rangers, and investigators from such news sources as 60 Minutes, Nightline, Vanity Fair, Time, the Baltimore Sun, and the San Antonio Express-News among others.