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True Crime All The Time Unsolved

The Somerton Man

True Crime All The Time Unsolved

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True Crime

4.75.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 1948, a mystery began that has spanned over 70 years when a man was found dead on Somerton beach in Australia. The authorities had to figure out who the man was because he had no identification on him. They also had to figure out what happened to him. The initial thought by the medical examiner was that he was poisoned but they found no traces of poison in his system. Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss one of the most interesting mysteries over the past 70 years. You will often see this case also referred to as the Tamam Shud case. This resulted from a piece of paper found on the man with these words on it which had been ripped from a copy of the book Rubaiyat. There have been many theories over the years including one that the man was a spy and was eliminated in such a fashion that it has left the police stumped. You can help support the show at patreon.com/truecrimeallthetime Visit the show's website at truecrimeallthetime.com for contact, merchandise, and donation information   An Emash Digital production See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

kommen.

0:30.0

Hello everyone and welcome, episode 210 of the True Crime All the Time, Unsolved Podcast.

0:40.3

I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson.

0:44.9

Give me what's going on with you.

0:46.6

I'm doing good, mate.

0:48.1

Are you?

0:49.1

Yes, I am.

0:50.1

Okay, okay.

0:51.1

Let's break that down.

0:53.4

You did start off with kind of a semi-Australian accent.

1:00.1

I sure did.

1:01.4

And then, no, that was not.

1:03.1

Then you just went full Beverly Hillbillies or something.

1:07.0

I don't know what that was.

1:08.3

I did something, I know.

1:09.3

I can't control it.

1:10.3

You can't control it.

1:11.3

But we are going to Australia.

1:13.0

We are.

1:14.0

To talk about the Summerton Man in this episode.

1:18.1

Before we do that, we have our Patreon shout out.

1:21.5

So let's give those.

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