The Tamam Shud Mystery

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• Detectives, murder and persons of interest
• The case against Harkness
• Inconsistencies unearthed in the inquest findings
• Jessica Harkness I and II
• Who was Ernest Moulds?
• Jessica’s Letters 2
• A letter from Jessica
• The English Jessica Harkness
• Provenance: you either have it or you don’t.
• The void that was Jessica Harkness
• The Somerton Man Set Up.
• Putting various notions to the Pub test
• Jestyn: man, woman or myth
• The Adelaide Club
• the Littlemore Boxall interview – was it a wasted exercise?
• Coroner Cleland – how did he pass muster?
• The investigation – unworthy of the name
• Ina Harvey – an opportunist?
• What evidence is there to suggest he was a ballet dancer?
• How does overt become covert?
• 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
• 1 Gallery.