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The Body on Somerton Beach
Smithsonian Mag ^ | 12 Aug 2011 | Mike Dash

Posted on 08/14/2011 11:10:02 AM PDT by Palter

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Fascinating stuff.
1 posted on 08/14/2011 11:10:14 AM PDT by Palter
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To: Palter

Very interesting. I suspected spies when I read about brand names being cut off of the clothing.


2 posted on 08/14/2011 11:23:54 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Palter
"Here's what happened...."


3 posted on 08/14/2011 11:39:34 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Palter

Interesting read. Thanks.


4 posted on 08/14/2011 11:46:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

This would make a great movie, one with the kind of ending where everyone takes away a different theory of what happened.


5 posted on 08/14/2011 11:46:28 AM PDT by Defiant (We are governed by the Oboehner party.)
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To: Defiant

Mysteries like this are pretty cool.


6 posted on 08/14/2011 11:53:12 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Lancey Howard

Maybe he could team up with Donger of Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-7UObXxeI

BTW I love Monk, great series.


7 posted on 08/14/2011 11:53:32 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Palter

Good story.


8 posted on 08/14/2011 11:57:38 AM PDT by floozy22 (The Palin Brand 2012: For Such A Time As This)
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To: Palter
Agreed. Another interesting case is the murder of William Desmond Taylor, noted silent film director, on February 1, 1922. Lots of suspects but never solved. Politicians, movie stars, Los Angeles Police Department incompetence it is all there! The case has achieved near cult status.
9 posted on 08/14/2011 12:01:43 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Palter

The man was probably bitten by a Blue Octopus.


10 posted on 08/14/2011 12:08:06 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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I didn’t read it yet, but he looks an awful lot like Mel Brooks.


11 posted on 08/14/2011 12:17:48 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Palter

bttt


12 posted on 08/14/2011 12:43:08 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: wally_bert

BTW I love(d) Monk too and Tony Shaloub until I read that he appeared in support of the teachers’ union mobs that shut down our government in Madison, WI. this past Feb. I will never forgive him that act. These mobs are still trying to recall our Governor who has turned our state around and put it in the black for the first time in more than a decade.


13 posted on 08/14/2011 12:45:37 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Scotsman will be Free

“I suspected spies when I read about brand names being cut off of the clothing.”

Yes, this has tradecraft written all over it, especially the fake books. I bet the “nurse” knew a lot more than she was telling.


14 posted on 08/14/2011 12:55:32 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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I first heard about this mystery a couple years ago. I always thought it was fascinating. I’ll have to get a copy of that book.


15 posted on 08/14/2011 1:15:28 PM PDT by HectorOne
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To: Defiant
This would make a great movie, one with the kind of ending where everyone takes away a different theory of what happened.

People don't do that anymore. Now they know everything is Bush's fault.

16 posted on 08/14/2011 2:19:28 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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“I’ll have to get a copy of that book.”

Good luck. Amazon doesn’t seem to have it. Through the link provided in the article, delivered to the US it’s $50. If you find something cheaper, let me know! :)


17 posted on 08/15/2011 11:36:48 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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Yeah I checked it out 5O bucks is a little too steep right now. It’ll turn up on ebay. A used copy is just as good.


18 posted on 08/17/2011 6:40:24 PM PDT by HectorOne
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Note: this topic is from 8/14/2011. Thanks Palter, wherever you are. That's a name I'd not seen in a really long while. I was watching a snippet of Joe Rogan on Roku this morning, the one where they apparently were going to discuss D.B. Cooper (starts out with Bigfoot, goes to D.B., then to this Somerton man). There have been DNA breakthroughs and other breakthroughs on this somewhat cryptic case, but it looks like a pretty common story of human despair and suicide by ETOH and exposure to me.

19 posted on 11/01/2018 12:37:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man’s identity remains a mystery
(Part 2: DNA, isotopes, and autopsy)
June 3, 2015 by Lisa Zyga
https://phys.org/news/2015-06-years-forensic-somerton-identity-mystery_1.html

New Somerton Man identification claim – Thomas Torance Keane…?
http://ciphermysteries.com/2013/10/01/new-somerton-man-identification-claim

Shares DNA with Thomas Jefferson?
http://www.google.com/search?q=’Somerton+Man+Thomas+Jefferson


20 posted on 11/01/2018 12:39:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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