History Of The Day - The Taman Shud Case: Mystery Man Found Dead on Somerton Beach (1948)

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On the night of November 30, 1948, passersby on Australia's Somerton Beach saw a man they believed to be drunk or sleeping. The next day, the mystery man was determined to be dead, which opened the still unsolved Taman Shud Case. The dead man has never been identified. Though investigators promptly searched the body and found normal things like chewing gum in the mystery man's pocket, something strange was later found, taking the case in a new—but equally elusive—direction. What was it? Discuss

[Nifemi Donald]

Cases like that were just always hard to deal with then. It was such a sad and unfair one.