The Tamam Shud Mystery

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• The withered virgin
• Common Misconceptions
• Keane, Harkness and Freeman
• Members of the 1940 Ballet Russes Company in Brisbane.
• Thomas Ambrose Keane.
• Spy Dust.
• DNA, mtDNA, genealogy,mass spectroscopy and nuclear related matters.
• Ballet Rambert’s 1948/49 tour of Australasia.
• The Butterfly Man
• The missing socks, boot lasts and slippers
• Alf Boxall – did he blink?
• The strand of an unconvincing narrative.
• The Dangers of being a Somerton Man Researcher
• A confluence of events relative to the birth of Robin Thomson
• Names of the Ballet Russes Company, Brisbane 1940
• How to find another code hidden within The Code.
• Who didn’t write the inscription?
• The construction of an alibi
• The Harkness years, from 1945 to 1949
• Jessica and the Navajo Code
• Developing the Boxall theory
• Most Favoured Reader ..
• Who took the Tamam Shud Case off the board?
• Detectives, murder and persons of interest
• The case against Harkness
• Inconsistencies unearthed in the inquest findings
• Who was Ernest Moulds?
• The English Jessica Harkness
• Provenance: you either have it or you don’t.
• The void that was Jessica Harkness
• Jestyn: man, woman or myth
• the Littlemore Boxall interview – was it a wasted exercise?
• The investigation – unworthy of the name
• Ina Harvey – an opportunist?
• What evidence is there to suggest he was a ballet dancer?
• The Rubaiyat Indentations: where are they?
• 18 Questions ..
• Step ladders, stippling judders and looking wobbly.
• quantizing artefact
• Removing Any Doubts Doesn’t
• The Somerton Man and what may have ailed him
• John Ruffles and the name ‘Jestyn’
• The man wearing striped trousers
• The man seen alive in the evening was not the man found dead in the morning
• A short walk downhill
• How Gordon Strapps upset the applecart.
• The Somerton Man Q & A
• Confirmation the body seen in the evening wasn’t the body found in the morning
• Henley Beach to Bickford Terrace
• Cleland’s delay …
• Steganography – it’s real
• 63 The finding of the TS slip
• 54 First she did, then she didn’t
• 51 Two Conflicting Depositions
• 42 DS Leane’s unreliable testimony
• 41 Evidence storage in 1948 and its limitations
• 39 For the code-gazers
• 37 A summary in pictures
• 29 Ballet slippers, black powder and men who dance
• 25 What was he poisoned with?
• 24 Eight witnesses who provided statements
• 23 Where did he die?
• 22 The question of lividity
• 21 Remarks by Coroner Cleland
• 20 Were the tools for marking cargo?
• 17 The handling of crucial evidence, updated 28 April.
• 16 Why were metal traces found in SM’s hair?
• 15 What happened to ballet dancer Otis Pearce?
• 13 The end of a family’s generations of silence
• 12 Facts and conclusions drawn from contemporary evidence
• 11 Contemporary evidence
• 10 Ballet dancers, suntanned to the groin
• 9 Ballet dancers and their peculiarly wedge-shaped feet
• 8 Dark rosin powder used by ballet dancers to prevent slippage
• 7 Senior government analyst Cowan’s failure to identify a dark powder
• 6 Why didn’t Detective Sergeant Leane delegate? Updated 30 April.
• 5 Correspondence with Derek Abbott
• 4 The Somerton slideshow. 2
• 3 The Somerton slide show. 1.
• 2 The Tamam Shud test