Australia Australia - Tamam Shud Case - Male, Dec 1948

[Pi Thoughts]

We need a code breaker.

 

[DRT]

Found this today on the Somerton Man.

Will the Somerton Man mystery ever be solved?

Australia's most bafflying mystery 70 years on

Who is the Somerton Man? Clues that could provide an answer

 

[flute4peace]

This is still such a fascinating case. I don’t understand why Prof Abbott doesn’t do DNA profiles on his wife.

 

[LucyOso]

Thank you

 

[LucyOso]

It seems like he had an affair with the nurse, found out later he had a child and returned. Maybe she turned him away?

 

[Hathor16]

An absolutely fascinating case.

I've not much to add except one thing. The cigarettes bother me, I don't know why. They found seven cigarettes of a different brand in an Army Club packet on the decedent. Don't smokers usually smoke the same brand if possible? Why swap cigarettes into a differently branded packet?

It feels as if this was very close to being solved but was only one or two pieces of information away from being so...

Transients without money will pick up or bum whatever cigarettes they can find.

 

[Hathor16]

Sorry if this has been asked and answered but what about the book? Apparently no exact copy of that particular printing exits. Another man "George Marshall" died in Australia with a seventh edition of Khayyam’s poems, there were only 5 editions printed by that publisher. So neither of those books should exist. Random coincidence but he (George) was jewish, did I read that Jestyn was buried in a jewish cemetery though she wasn't jewish?

 

[scruffydog]

We need a code breaker.

weird to say-but whenever I read the first line-it says "We are going aboard'...

 

[dogperson]

The Somerton man was missing his top lateral incisors. I've done some googling on this and while the lateral incisors are the most common teeth to be genetically missing, the condition itself is not what would be called common. About 2% of the world population has genetically missing top lateral incisors. (In many of these cases, the missing teeth occur in people with Down's Syndrome and other syndromes which would have been obvious in the person's appearance. Somerton man didn't look like he had any obvious genetic syndromes.) I understand that "Jestyn's" son Robin also was missing these teeth. If only about 2% of the population has this anomaly, and if many of that 2% have Down's Syndrome and various other genetic syndromes, then if the Somerton man (who didn't appear to have any obvious syndromes) and Robin both had this same anomaly (Robin not being afflicted with any known genetic syndromes), then it seems quite likely that the theory is true that Robin was the Somerton man's son.

 

[Richard]

The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia.

The case is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished," which was written on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet, Omar Khayyám.

Tamam was misspelled as Taman in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media.

LINK:

The Body on Somerton Beach | History | Smithsonian

 

[Richard]

Somerton Man

Sex Male
Race White
Location Somerton, Australia
Found 1 December 1948
Unidentified for 70 years
Postmortem interval 24 hours
Body condition Recognizable face
Age approximation 40 - 45
Height approximation 180 cm (5'11)
Weight approximation 80 kilos (176 pounds)
Cause of death Poisoning

Somerton Man was discovered in Australia in 1948. It is sometimes referred to as the Tamam Shud case.

The phrase "tamam shud" was found on a piece of paper in his pocket. The paper was not discovered until months after his death. It translates to "it is ended," a quote from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

His case was popular in Australia in the years immediately following his death.

There has been heavy speculation that he may have been a spy during and immediately after World War II.

Physical Description

• He had mousy coloured hair, mixed with red and grey.
• He had grey eyes.
• His calf muscles were pronounced.
• He had three small scars on his left wrist.
• He had a scar inside of his left elbow.
• He had a scar on his upper left arm.

Links

Somerton Man

• Somerton Man on Wikipedia UNCENSORED POSTMORTEM WARNING
• Somerton Man at the Doe Network UNCENSORED POSTMORTEM WARNING

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/who-is-the-somerton-man

 

[Bohemian]

There is a pre-existing thread for the Tamam Shud case here:

Australia - Australia - Tamam Shud Case - Male, Dec 1948

 

[Richard]

Perhaps they could be merged? I posted in the Unidentified section. The other seems to be in Cold Cases.

 

[Bohemian]

Perhaps they could be merged? I posted in the Unidentified section. The other seems to be in Cold Cases.

Good idea. Maybe you could alert the Mod and ask.

 

[Richard]

Unidentified "Somerton Man" as found on the beach in Somerton, Australia on 1 December 1948.


LINK:

alf boxall – Mysterious & Unsolved Stories

 

[Richard]

Somerton Man

Sex Male
Race White
Location Somerton, Australia
Found 1 December 1948
Unidentified for 70 years
Postmortem interval 24 hours
Body condition Recognizable face
Age approximation 40 - 45
Height approximation 180 cm (5'11)
Weight approximation 80 kilos (176 pounds)
Cause of death Poisoning

Somerton Man was discovered in Australia in 1948. It is sometimes referred to as the Tamam Shud case.

The phrase "tamam shud" was found on a piece of paper in his pocket. The paper was not discovered until months after his death. It translates to "it is ended," a quote from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

His case was popular in Australia in the years immediately following his death.

There has been heavy speculation that he may have been a spy during and immediately after World War II.

Physical Description

• He had mousy colored hair, mixed with red and grey.
• He had grey eyes.
• His calf muscles were pronounced.
• He had three small scars on his left wrist.
• He had a scar inside of his left elbow.
• He had a scar on his upper left arm.

Links

Somerton Man

• Somerton Man on Wikipedia UNCENSORED POSTMORTEM WARNING
• Somerton Man at the Doe Network UNCENSORED POSTMORTEM WARNING

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/who-is-the-somerton-man

 

[Richard]

Here is a link to the Somerton man Case as it appears in Websleuths Cold Case Topic:

Australia - Australia - Tamam Shud Case - Male, Dec 1948

 

[Richard]

Somerton Man as found on the beach.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Sorry to ask (as I'm sure I once knew this!) but what was his cause of death?

 

[NoveltyJane]

Sorry to ask (as I'm sure I once knew this!) but what was his cause of death?

He is believed to have died of a drug or poison, but its not certain what kind of drug because it wasn't a traceable in his system.