To part quote Derek Abbott ‘There’s two things that bug me.’
He was talking about socks, I'm talking about tickets.
Posts tagged ‘the unknown man’
May 15
Why has it taken over 70 years to question why the police didn’t use the Henley Beach train ticket to trace the Somerton Man’s movements?
The first instalment of a series of posts that show the influence Detective Sergeant Leane had on all aspects of the Somerton Man Investigation. Here we look at the anomalies surrounding the initial investigation and the evidential contradictions in the testimonies of PC Moss and his superior, Detective Sergeant Leane.
The Tamam Shud Do It Yourself Test
Take a piece of paper and cut it so it's the same size as the Tamam Shud slip.
What we know about the Somerton Man, the Thomsons, the Egans and their DNA
“I was an accidental conception." Rachel Egan.
Has Rachel Egan’s DNA finally ended Derek Abbott’s involvement in the Somerton Man Mystery?
Is Derek Abbott’s belief that his wife and their children are related to the man at the centre of one of the world's most intriguing mysteries dashed?
The Somerton Man inquest was closed for lack of new evidence despite the police having found more than enough.
Why was the coroner’s court denied the opportunity to subpoena new witnesses?
The Somerton Man’s suitcase and its forgotten fingerprints
The suitcase held a cornucopia of identifiable items fingerprint-wise but DS Leane preferred to adopt a different approach in his efforts to identify who owned it and instead took a few bits and pieces back to the station to be photographed and distributed to the press, hoping their publication would do the job for him.
How does that make sense?
The Somerton Man Case .. an uncommon timeline.
The Somerton Man Case appeared to be nothing more than the unexplained death of an unknown man found on a beach near the small coastal town of Glenelg in South Australia.
Believing Alf Boxall
That was no sweet innocent quiet reserved young babe who wrote Verse 70.
Feb 27
“If the (Somerton Man’s) body had been taken to the place where it was found, the difficulties disappear.”
Coroner Cleland invites speculation as early as 1949.
Was the state of the Somerton Man’s health a factor in his death?
Someone must have a doctor in the family.
A closer look at the Somerton Man’s NINE medical conditions.
As a personal note, my medical qualifications only extend to the ability to Google various medical words and phrases, find what I'm looking for then cut and paste it here.
Some of TSM’s medical conditions appear (to the layman’s eye) to be interrelated, but there is little doubt he needed medical assistance.
Was the Somerton Man seriously unwell?
The discrepancies between the effects of Glycoside poisoning and the condition Dwyer found the Somerton Man to be in may have indicated he was not only seriously unwell but in need of regular medical assistance prior to his sudden and unexpected death.
Feb 9
Boxall’s memories of Jessica and the meaning of Verse 70
‘She was a very quiet sort of girl ..’
Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before
‘She was very young, she was very young, .. ‘
I swore – but was I sober when I swore?
‘..she was just a young girl.’
And then and then came Spring,
‘.. she would be a very reserved young woman.’
and Rose-in hand
‘.. very quiet sort of girl ..’
My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
‘.. and even today, I don’t know what the girl’s surname was.’
Littlemore: ‘That’s funny isn’t it, because she knew yours.’
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The meaning (of V70) is clear enough: The writer intended to mend his ways often enough, but never quite made it! The Spring and the Rose are here symbols of the attraction back to his old ways.
Bob Forrest.
Boxall’s responses lifted from Stuart Littlemore’s interview notes.
The incongruity evidenced above might lead to the conclusion that the inscription was not written by the same very young, quiet and reserved woman Alf Boxall remembered.
Some inconsistencies with regard to the Somerton Man’s personal effects.
The challenge here is not to supply an explanation for just one of these inconsistencies, it is to explain them all.
RACHEL EGAN’S DNA LINKED TO PROSPER THOMSON – Part 2
If one has the DNA test data it is relatively easy to sort out where the connection is provided if it isn’t too deep in the past (say 200+ years), and even then it is possible to find the connection with enough effort. Byron Deveson.
How and where did the Somerton Man die – and who was he with at the time?
This was not murder disguised as suicide, it was suicide underlined !
Implications stemming from Rachel Egan’s shared DNA and a word from Dr Carolyn Bilsborow.
It would be one thing to ask someone to move the body of a murdered man, another to dispose of the body of a suicide.
The Somerton Man 