Post by mecano04 on Aug 8, 2017 1:26:02 GMT
It's a great one, isn't it?
Now, my memory has been proven somewhat faulty already in this thread... but I'll try my best.
The text I read was taken from a book written by one of the investigator who kept digging for clues even years after the case was put aside. I wanted to get the book but at the time (and maybe to this day too) it was only available in Australia and there was like 80$ just for the shipping to Canada, so I dropped the project.
Anyway, the conclusion about the man was that he was a Soviet agent (spy or whatever) and that he was one of the victims of someone(or a group) who was sent to Australia to "clean up" the area.
That conclusion was based on a few things.
First, the man wasn't from Australia. Everything from the stuff in his suitcase to his look "screamed" he wasn't from the area. Also, a physical characteristic about him supported this certitude: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case#/media/File:SomertonManEars.jpg which was said to be typical, or at least seen more than usual, in Ural or another typical Soviet region (I don't remember the exact info).
The second thing was some other suspicious deaths/murders weren't link at first but seemed to be linked if you consider how they happened and the book connection (from the wiki) :
"Possibly related cases
Mangnoson case
On 6 June 1949, the body of two-year-old Clive Mangnoson was found in a sack in the Largs Bay sand hills, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) up the coast from Somerton.[90] Lying next to him was his unconscious father, Keith Waldemar Mangnoson.[note 6] The father was taken to a hospital in a very weak condition, suffering from exposure;[90] following a medical examination, he was transferred to a mental hospital.[91]
The Mangnosons had been missing for four days. The police believed that Clive had been dead for twenty-four hours when his body was found.[92] The two were found by Neil McRae[note 7] of Largs Bay, who claimed he had seen the location of the two in a dream the night before.[93]
The coroner could not determine the young Mangnoson's cause of death, although it was not believed to be natural causes.[4] The contents of the boy's stomach were sent to a government analyst for further examination.[90]
Following the death, the boy's mother, Roma Mangnoson, reported having been threatened by a masked man, who, while driving a battered cream car, almost ran her down outside her home in Cheapside Street, Largs North.[4] Mrs Mangnoson stated that "the car stopped and a man with a khaki handkerchief over his face told her to 'keep away from the police or else.'" Additionally a similar looking man had been recently seen lurking around the house.[4] Mrs. Mangnoson believed that this situation was related to her husband's attempt to identify the Somerton Man, believing him to be Carl Thompsen, who had worked with him in Renmark in 1939.[4]
J. M. Gower, secretary of the Largs North Progress Association received anonymous phone calls threatening that Mrs. Mangnoson would meet with an accident if he interfered while A. H. Curtis, the acting mayor of Port Adelaide received three anonymous phone calls threatening "an accident" if he "stuck his nose into the Mangnoson affair." Police suspect the calls may be a hoax and the caller may be the same person who also terrorised a woman in a nearby suburb who had recently lost her husband in tragic circumstances.[4]
Soon after being interviewed by police over her harassment, Mrs. Mangnoson collapsed and required medical treatment.[94]
Marshall case
In June 1945 – three years before the death of the Somerton Man – a 34-year-old Singaporean named George Marshall (born Joseph Saul Haim Mashal) was found dead in Ashton Park, Mosman, Sydney, with an open copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on his chest.[95] Ashton Park is directly adjacent to Clifton Gardens. His death is believed to be a suicide by poisoning, and occurred two months before Jessie Harkness gave Alf Boxall the inscribed copy of the Rubaiyat. George Marshall was a brother of David Marshall, who was later to become Singapore's first Chief Minister.
An inquest was held for Joseph Marshall on 15 August 1945; Gwenneth Dorothy Graham testified at the inquest and was found dead 13 days later face down, naked, in a bath with her wrists slit.[96][97] "
Mangnoson case
On 6 June 1949, the body of two-year-old Clive Mangnoson was found in a sack in the Largs Bay sand hills, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) up the coast from Somerton.[90] Lying next to him was his unconscious father, Keith Waldemar Mangnoson.[note 6] The father was taken to a hospital in a very weak condition, suffering from exposure;[90] following a medical examination, he was transferred to a mental hospital.[91]
The Mangnosons had been missing for four days. The police believed that Clive had been dead for twenty-four hours when his body was found.[92] The two were found by Neil McRae[note 7] of Largs Bay, who claimed he had seen the location of the two in a dream the night before.[93]
The coroner could not determine the young Mangnoson's cause of death, although it was not believed to be natural causes.[4] The contents of the boy's stomach were sent to a government analyst for further examination.[90]
Following the death, the boy's mother, Roma Mangnoson, reported having been threatened by a masked man, who, while driving a battered cream car, almost ran her down outside her home in Cheapside Street, Largs North.[4] Mrs Mangnoson stated that "the car stopped and a man with a khaki handkerchief over his face told her to 'keep away from the police or else.'" Additionally a similar looking man had been recently seen lurking around the house.[4] Mrs. Mangnoson believed that this situation was related to her husband's attempt to identify the Somerton Man, believing him to be Carl Thompsen, who had worked with him in Renmark in 1939.[4]
J. M. Gower, secretary of the Largs North Progress Association received anonymous phone calls threatening that Mrs. Mangnoson would meet with an accident if he interfered while A. H. Curtis, the acting mayor of Port Adelaide received three anonymous phone calls threatening "an accident" if he "stuck his nose into the Mangnoson affair." Police suspect the calls may be a hoax and the caller may be the same person who also terrorised a woman in a nearby suburb who had recently lost her husband in tragic circumstances.[4]
Soon after being interviewed by police over her harassment, Mrs. Mangnoson collapsed and required medical treatment.[94]
Marshall case
In June 1945 – three years before the death of the Somerton Man – a 34-year-old Singaporean named George Marshall (born Joseph Saul Haim Mashal) was found dead in Ashton Park, Mosman, Sydney, with an open copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on his chest.[95] Ashton Park is directly adjacent to Clifton Gardens. His death is believed to be a suicide by poisoning, and occurred two months before Jessie Harkness gave Alf Boxall the inscribed copy of the Rubaiyat. George Marshall was a brother of David Marshall, who was later to become Singapore's first Chief Minister.
An inquest was held for Joseph Marshall on 15 August 1945; Gwenneth Dorothy Graham testified at the inquest and was found dead 13 days later face down, naked, in a bath with her wrists slit.[96][97] "
I'm not saying it's impossible that people who read the same book suffer from suspicious deaths but what are the chances, in this case, that two persons who have the same (rare) edition of the Rubaiyat suffer similar fate?
Another highlight from the article I read was that Jessica Ellen "Jo" Thomson was related to the man pass the phone number at the back of the book. When the police asked her to come and try to identify the body, the investigators noted that when she saw him she gasped then she wouldn't look at him at all. Her reaction gave the impression that she knew him but she denied it when asked.
Now from the wiki and basically from what I read a while back:
In May 2009, Derek Abbott consulted with dental experts who concluded that the Somerton Man had hypodontia (a rare genetic disorder) of both lateral incisors, a feature present in only 2% of the general population. In June 2010, Abbott obtained a photograph of Jessica Thomson's eldest son Robin, which clearly showed that he – like the unknown man – had not only a larger cymba than cavum, but also hypodontia. The chance that this was a coincidence has been estimated as between one in 10,000,000 and one in 20,000,000
They could have been millionaire with those odds on their side.
I know it's a wall of text not to add much but that's what I got to back my take.
The site on which I found the article was a personal blog like this : tamamshud.blogspot.ca/2016/06/somerton-man-book-collection.html
not a journal or magazine site.