The Tamam Shud Mystery

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• The indignities of an exhumation
• Would a spy be so careless as to leave evidence?
• Barbiturate usage during the 1930s and 1940s
• Coroner Cleland’s findings are worth challenging.
• Tommy Keane. Merchant seaman. Black-marketeer
• Littlemore and Boxall – Wordplay.
• Who were the Nackeroos ?
• Why did Gerry Feltus muddy the waters ?
• What do a Policeman, a Lawyer and an Interviewer have in common ?
• Another woman’s passion
• Harkness’ two giveaways
• Large calves and suntanned thighs
• Thomas Keane.
• DNA, mtDNA, genealogy,mass spectroscopy and nuclear related matters.
• Alf Boxall – did he blink?
• The strand of an unconvincing narrative.
• A confluence of events relative to the birth of Robin Thomson
• Names of the Ballet Russes Company, Brisbane 1940
• The Harkness years, from 1945 to 1949
• Who took the Tamam Shud Case off the board?
• Inconsistencies unearthed in the inquest findings
• Provenance: you either have it or you don’t.
• The void that was Jessica Harkness
• What evidence is there to suggest he was a ballet dancer?
• The Rubaiyat Indentations: where are they?
• Removing Any Doubts Doesn’t
• The Somerton Man and what may have ailed him
• The man wearing striped trousers
• The man seen alive in the evening was not the man found dead in the morning
• How Gordon Strapps upset the applecart.
• Confirmation the body seen in the evening wasn’t the body found in the morning
• 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
• 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?
• 16 Why were metal traces found in SM’s hair?
• 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
• 1 Gallery.