"So it's not out of the question that these items of clothing he had with TKeane on them were just hand-me-downs from his brother-in-law.". In addition, witness statements have disappeared from the police file over the years.[8]. [77] The two were found by Neil McRae[note 7] of Largs Bay, who claimed he had seen the location of the two in a dream the night before. Carolyn Bilsborow, a film-maker and director of the documentary Missing Pieces about Somerton man, said the news was incredibly exciting. "All this time we've been publishing the autopsy photo, and it's hard to tell what something looks like from that", Abbott said. "Somerton Beach Mystery Man", Transcript, Broadcast 27 March 2009. We had all these grandiose ideas about him being Russian, American and European. A post-mortem ruled he had died from. A half-smoked cigarette was resting on his collar, and there was a line from a Persian poem in his pocket - but investigators had no idea who he was. [113] In 1941, he married Dorothy "Doff" Robertson, a pharmacist and chiropodist. Both kidneys were congested, and the liver contained a great excess of blood in its vessels. Public interest in the case remains significant for several reasons: the death occurred at a time of heightened international tensions following the beginning of the Cold War; the apparent involvement of a secret code; the possible use of an undetectable poison; and the inability of authorities to identify the dead man. Maciej Henneberg, professor of anatomy at the University of Adelaide, examined images of the Somerton man's ears and found that his cymba (upper ear hollow) is larger than his cavum (lower ear hollow), a feature possessed by only 12% of the Caucasian population. However, a bus conductor named Leslie Francis Wytkin (or Wytkins) handed in a copy of the. [83] Other key evidence no longer exists, such as the brown suitcase, which was destroyed in 1986. The only problem is that the body is six feet under and seven decades old. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. [47] When she was interviewed by police, Thomson said that she did not know the dead man or why he would have her phone number and choose to visit her suburb on the night of his death.
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