122: Cryptic: The Somerton Man, aka Tamam Shud

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A man is found dead on the beach dressed nicely in a suit. The best guess is that he was killed with some sort of untraceable poison. One of the few clues was a rolled up piece of paper found in a makeshift pocket that said "Tamam Shud", which means "It Is Ended". His case has baffled Australians for decades.

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Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-body-on-somerton-beach-50795611/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7573831/Notorious-murder-mystery-one-step-closer-solved-Somerton-Man-exhumed.html
https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/List_of_facts_on_the_Taman_Shud_Case_that_are_often_misreported
https://www.enotes.com/topics/rubaiyat-omar-khayyam
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/dec/29/poem-week-edward-fitzgerald
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/is-british-seamans-identity-card-clue-to-solving-63-year-old-beach-body-mystery/news-story/b0f696e3e2a3d82a88cb5d1788f17f25

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.2	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.6	And this is Corpus Delict at the podcast.
0:28.5	Welcome back, week four of quarantine.
0:31.5	Is it week four?
0:32.8	Yeah, it's week four.
0:34.2	We are.
0:34.5	We're going into week four.
0:35.4	Wow, that's insane.
0:37.0	I'm losing my mind. Well, we are going to
0:41.0	get into another story in the cryptic series. This is actually the second to last story in the
0:48.0	cryptic series. We've got this one and then one more and then we're going to be moving on. If you
0:53.5	stay tuned to the end of the episode,
0:55.9	we will tell you what the new series is going to be. But until the day, you have to be in suspense.
1:02.0	We are super excited. So tonight, Lindsay actually researched this and did a phenomenal job.
1:09.7	And I'm not going to try to even pronounce it because it's not
1:14.4	going to go well. Yeah, this is a pretty popular case especially. I know we have some overseas
1:21.8	listeners and some are in Australia, so it's a pretty popular case over there, but it's been baffling people for decades,
1:31.2	and this is the case of the Tomom should, which is also sometimes known as the Somerton Man.
1:37.7	So let's go ahead and get started.
1:40.5	The story takes place on Tuesday, November the 30th, 1948.
1:46.4	It's a warm evening.
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