Hello CaseFile listeners. As we enter CaseFiles' 10th year, we've created a new run of special bonus content, CaseFile Archives, a series of releases revisiting the earliest years of the show, along with previously unreleased premium episodes. This is completely additional content and will not replace new episodes.

We will still be back in March with brand new cases and will be releasing the same number

of new episodes this year as we did last year. Case file archives is simply a way to mark

the 10th year, revisit some older episodes, and to offer

previously subscriber exclusive episodes to the wider audience for the first time.

For the re-release episodes, we have fully edited, polished, re-recorded and freshly produced

them from start to finish to match our current production standards.

They are not full rewrites.

Our aim isn't to reshape the cases or alter the original storytelling,

but to preserve them as they were first told while giving them the level of production

they didn't have back in 2016.

Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure remains faithful to the

originals.

Because of this, these episodes may sound a little different to our recent work.

Today's re-release is The Somerton Man, the second case file episode ever produced.

In December 1948, the body of an unidentified man was discovered on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.

At first, it appeared he had simply passed away in his sleep.

But as detectives examined his belongings and retraced his final movements,

they uncovered a series of strange and unexplained clues that only deepened the mystery.

Originally released in January 2016, the case has seen a significant development since then, which has been included

in this re-release version. Thank you to everyone who has listened and supported us over the years.

Now here is the second episode from Case File Archives, The Summerton Man.

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