the tamam shud mystery ..

Jul 3

46 The Big Picture in seven sentences

The engineer was recruited by an allied agency and instructed to pass false information to an intermediary.

The intermediary was recruited by an allied intelligence agency to act as a communist party sympathiser and gain their trust.

The engineer’s information was passed to the intermediary using a coded Rubaiyat.

The intermediary passed the engineer’s messages to a communist agent.

The agent was lured to Adelaide in November 1948. He made his way to the suburb where the intermediary lived and was murdered.

The police investigation was limited in its scope at the direction of the allied agency.

Jul 3

45 This is what we have learned ..

.. so far.

Jul 1

44 A half-smoked cigarette

... but how did he light it?

Jul 1

42 DS Leane’s unreliable testimony

Not all trousers are equal

Jun 29

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41 Evidence storage in 1948 and its limitations

An assumption driven narrative.

Jun 27

1 Comment

40 A record of events, updated

Bodies, suitcases and fingerprints.

Jun 25

24 Comments

39 For the code-gazers

What are you looking at?

Jun 19

11 Comments

38 Lady Danetta

.. she can be conjured up from so many places

Jun 14

36 Another loose end

Mr Francis, back in focus.

May 25

4 Comments

34 Another scenario

DS Leane: the man on point.

May 3

1 Comment

33 DS Leane: did he obstruct the investigation?

He had his hands all over it

May 2

32 The evidence handlers: questions we would have liked to ask

Professor Cleland, Jimmy Durham and James Cowan are questioned

May 1

31. The evidence gatherers: questions we would have liked to ask

Cowan and Durham are questioned.

Apr 30

30 The investigation team: questions we would have liked to ask

'I have it,' said Leane.

Apr 30

29 Ballet slippers, black powder and men who dance

.. you know it makes sense

Apr 29

28 Moss’s seven discrepancies

Remarks by PC Moss and G Feltus

Apr 28

4 Comments

27 A box of matches, a cigarette and the Tamam Shud slip

.. matters concerning PC Moss.

Apr 26

26 Three distinct procedural failings

... and they are all about fingerprints

Apr 25

6 Comments

25 What was he poisoned with?

Remarks by James Cowan, Professor Sir Stanton Hicks and Coroner Cleland

Apr 7

24 Eight witnesses who provided statements

.. and the ninth, who didn't

Apr 4

11 Comments

23 Where did he die?

Remarks by Coroner Cleland, Professor Cleland, Professor Sir Stanton Hicks, Detective Sergeant Don O'Doherty.

Apr 3

2 Comments

22 The question of lividity

Remarks by Professor Cleland, PC Moss, Gerry Feltus, Dr John Dwyer and Professor Sir Stanton Hicks

Apr 3

21 Remarks by Coroner Cleland

"I cannot say where he died."

Mar 29

20 Were the tools for marking cargo?

.. or were they meant for another purpose?

Mar 10

18 Comments

19 Did the prints taken from the unclaimed luggage match the prints taken from the body?

A question of procedures

Feb 23

10 Comments

18 Why were Cleland and Cowan asked to identify the deceased through his clothing sizes and not his fingerprints?

... a question of procedures

Feb 21

17 The handling of crucial evidence, updated 28 April.

... did Leane make use of the opportunity?

Feb 13

16 Why were metal traces found in SM’s hair?

a simple answer to what was a complex question

Feb 11

14 Comments

15 What happened to ballet dancer Otis Pearce?

He's a ballet dancer with big hands, heavy metal traces in his hair, wedge shaped feet, highly developed calves and suntanned to his upper thighs. His name is Otis Pierce, or Pearce and he disappeared in 1939

Feb 4

22 Comments

14 Eleven inexplicable investigative omissions

eleven reasons not to believe what we've been told

Jan 26

47 Comments

13 The Francis family’s generations of silence

When you wipe your blackboard clean of Francis, other aspects become clearer.

Jan 25

12 Facts and conclusions drawn from contemporary evidence

reasons for doubt

Jan 23

11 Contemporary evidence

some newspaper reports are unreliable

Jan 10

6 Comments

10 Ballet dancers, suntanned to the groin

surf's up ...

Jan 8

10 Comments

9 Ballet dancers and their peculiarly wedge-shaped feet

explicit evidence

Dec 20

21 Comments

8 Dark rosin powder used by ballet dancers to prevent slippage

.. and the removal of same

Dec 16

7 Senior government analyst Cowan’s failure to identify a dark powder

he was dumbfounded by the dark powder shaken out of the brush found in the dead man's suitcase ..

Dec 1

6 Why didn’t Detective Sergeant Leane delegate? Updated 30 April.

... when his real job was sitting behind a desk

Jul 30

3 Comments

5 Correspondence with Derek Abbott

"I hope you find this useful!"

Mar 5

4 The Somerton slideshow. 2

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm on the 30th of november 1948

Mar 4

3 The Somerton slide show. 1.

the tamam shud slip / the indentations

Oct 19

2 The Tamam Shud test

sometimes you have to do the research yourself.

Apr 17

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1 Gallery.

The Somerton slide-show.

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