A man was found dead in 1948 at a place called Somerton Beach in Australia.
It started to get weird when the cops noticed all the tags on his clothes had been removed. Eventually the police were able to establish it was an American made jacket he was wearing. The coroner did the autopsy and the examination of his brain and stomach pointed at him being poisoned and also his spleen had grown 3 times larger than normal, but no trace of any poison was ever found. Other than that, the guy was once in perfect health. His fingerprints matched no one on record, either in Australia or the USA or through Interpol. The police later found a brown suitcase at a rail station they believed the dead guy owned, in it were more clothes with the tags removed and other items.
In the case were a red checked dressing gown, a size seven, red felt pair of slippers; four pairs of underpants, pyjamas, shaving items, a light brown pair of trousers with sand in the cuffs, an electrician's screwdriver, a table knife cut down into a short sharp instrument, a pair of scissors with sharpened points, and a stencilling brush, as used by third officers on merchant ships for stencilling cargo.
Also in the suitcase was a thread card of Barbour brand orange waxed thread of "an unusual type" not available in Australia—it was the same as that used to repair the lining in a pocket of the trousers the dead man was wearing. All identification marks on the clothes had been removed but police found the name "T. Keane" on a tie, "Keane" on a laundry bag and "Kean" (without the last e) on a singlet, along with three dry-cleaning marks; 1171/7, 4393/7 and 3053/7. Police believed that whoever removed the clothing tags purposefully left the Keane tags on the clothes, knowing Keane was not the dead man's name. It has since been noted that the "Kean" tags were the only ones that could not have been removed without damaging the clothing.
The police found a hidden pocket in the dead guys pants, containing a scrap of paper with the words "Tamam Shud" printed on it.
The scrap looked to be torn from a book, it turned out to be from a rare book called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The police searched far and wide for the torn book, a man finally came forward from the same area as the murder and told police he had the book in the back of his car around the time of the murder. Police checked the book and found the torn section that matched the scrap found in the dead guys secret pocket. Police also found a cryptic message written on the back of the book that has never been solved - if it even means anything.
The Police understood that Tamam Shud translated means "ended" or "finished".
investigation of this murder has more or less "ended" or "finished". It's unsolved to this day.
Armchair theory on this guy is everything from a spy to an escaped mental patient.
It started to get weird when the cops noticed all the tags on his clothes had been removed. Eventually the police were able to establish it was an American made jacket he was wearing. The coroner did the autopsy and the examination of his brain and stomach pointed at him being poisoned and also his spleen had grown 3 times larger than normal, but no trace of any poison was ever found. Other than that, the guy was once in perfect health. His fingerprints matched no one on record, either in Australia or the USA or through Interpol. The police later found a brown suitcase at a rail station they believed the dead guy owned, in it were more clothes with the tags removed and other items.
In the case were a red checked dressing gown, a size seven, red felt pair of slippers; four pairs of underpants, pyjamas, shaving items, a light brown pair of trousers with sand in the cuffs, an electrician's screwdriver, a table knife cut down into a short sharp instrument, a pair of scissors with sharpened points, and a stencilling brush, as used by third officers on merchant ships for stencilling cargo.
Also in the suitcase was a thread card of Barbour brand orange waxed thread of "an unusual type" not available in Australia—it was the same as that used to repair the lining in a pocket of the trousers the dead man was wearing. All identification marks on the clothes had been removed but police found the name "T. Keane" on a tie, "Keane" on a laundry bag and "Kean" (without the last e) on a singlet, along with three dry-cleaning marks; 1171/7, 4393/7 and 3053/7. Police believed that whoever removed the clothing tags purposefully left the Keane tags on the clothes, knowing Keane was not the dead man's name. It has since been noted that the "Kean" tags were the only ones that could not have been removed without damaging the clothing.
The police found a hidden pocket in the dead guys pants, containing a scrap of paper with the words "Tamam Shud" printed on it.
The scrap looked to be torn from a book, it turned out to be from a rare book called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The police searched far and wide for the torn book, a man finally came forward from the same area as the murder and told police he had the book in the back of his car around the time of the murder. Police checked the book and found the torn section that matched the scrap found in the dead guys secret pocket. Police also found a cryptic message written on the back of the book that has never been solved - if it even means anything.
The Police understood that Tamam Shud translated means "ended" or "finished".
investigation of this murder has more or less "ended" or "finished". It's unsolved to this day.
Armchair theory on this guy is everything from a spy to an escaped mental patient.