Road Trip: More to the Puzzle — Somerton Man Updates

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Episode 309: In Mike's first book, Murder, Madness and Mayhem, he wrote about an unknown man whose body was found on Somerton Park beach near Adelaide, Australia, by two trainee jockeys who’d been out with their horses on the morning of December 1, 1948. Lying in peaceful repose, the man wore a suit, overdressed for the warm Australian summer, and had no wallet or identification. He was unknown to anyone locally. The labels of his clothing had been ripped out. Some enigmatic leads proved fruitless, including the discovery of a book, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, believed to have belonged to the stranger. In that book, what appeared to be coded writing was found. Experts have yet to decrypt the supposed message. Some believe the man was a spy, possibly murdered for what he knew. Called by many Somerton Man, the stranger's identity has remained unknown for decades until recently, when two separate groups came forward claiming they had information about who he was, leading to further speculation and even more questions. Sources: Murder Madness and Mayhem by Mike Browne The Unknown Man by Gerald Feltus Archived Newspaper Articles | Trove Final Report/Thesis 2015 - Derek Abbott Code Cracking: Who Murdered the Somerton Man | Prof. Derek Abbott How to Solve Ciphers Cryptography Hints 2602UMSAU — The Doe Network ‘Truth to come out’: Fresh claims emerge on Somerton Man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	The Satellite Darkboutine studio in Edmonton, Alberta.
1:06.4	Edmonton, Alberta. Oh my goodness gracious, how long are you there?
1:10.8	I'm here for the weekend. I'm seeing my auntie and uncle. You know that
1:15.7	Morgan lives in... Oh yeah, yeah I forgot about that. You might want to you might
1:20.9	want to say hi. Some people might want to meet you. people might want to meet you are you going to do
1:24.4	anything like that I'll see what my aunt-in uncle want to do yeah there you go
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1:47.0	Dark Poitine is not for the faint of heart or squeamish.
1:53.3	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
1:55.9	We're not experts on the topics we present, nor are we journalists.
1:59.6	We're two ordinary Canadians chatting about crime in the dark side of history.
2:04.0	Let's get to it. Put on your toook, grab yourself a double-d-end and an nimo bar.
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