Somerton Man (Josie’s Version): A Still Technically Unsolved Mystery
Episode description
This week Josie re-does an old AAMH story, it's the incredible mystery of the 1948 death of the unknown 'Somerton Man'.
**If you would like to skip the catch up chat, head straight to 18 mins!
(00:01) Zesty Chat
(17:50) Somerton Man begins
(01:22.00) End
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EPISODE REFERENCES:
SMH extract from Kerry Greenwood’s book “Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery”: https://www.smh.com.au/national/riddle-on-the-sands-20121119-29kwz.html
Transcript of Coronial Inquest 17th June 1949:
The Advertiser 6 Dec 1948: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43794348
The Advertiser article 11 Dec 1948: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43795238
The Advertiser article 18 January 1949: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43800320
The Advertiser article 25 Nov 1949: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36677719
ABC article April 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-24/mysterious-somerton-man-to-be-exhumed-by-sa-police/100092750
ABC Australian Story episode November 2022: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/my-name-is-charles-somerton-man-mystery/101680520 :
SA Police statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20220727061712/https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/front-page-news/statement-regarding-somerton-man#.YuDYbOzP1qY
Daily Mail Sep 2023: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12528299/Somerton-Man-Twist-Australias-mysterious-cold-cases-case-bizarre-birthday-card-emerges.html
Josie's own chaotic notes from 2018 and All Aussie Mystery Hour S1E5
A bit of Wikipedia too - some of their links were broken.
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