Posted on 08/14/2011 11:10:02 AM PDT by Palter
Palter hasn’t posted since 9/22/2011.................
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Chicago has a 14% homicide clearance rate.
Yes, you read that right. 86% of homicides (not murders, homicides which includes police shootings and self defense shootings) in Chicago remain unresolved.
Solving the Somerton Man mystery, Australia’s most baffling cold case
Forensic advances are poised to answer questions that have gripped Down Under for 70 years.
by Jackson Ryan
July 31, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/solving-the-somerton-man-mystery-australias-most-baffling-cold-case/
Wha…? Whoooo??? O my golly!
OK. I’m ready for the real ending! Wha’ happen?
IIRC, “Tamám Shud” was reported as “Tamam Shood” ‘the very end’ in America when this first transpired.
I think the writer was going for some dramatic flair. That was what jumped out at me too - “Most murders are solved? I don’t think so.”
I think he was a spy as well. The fancy cigarettes in the cheep brand’s package may have been to ward off punks that might try to rob him? And of course he wasn’t worried about his wallet - but all of the other information. Or himself - being able to continue his work.
Hmm. If he was killed by poison that would seem the killers wanted things hidden. If so - instead of carrying him and setting him on the beach - why not carry him to a boat and dump him at sea?
Perhaps he wasn’t a spy - but was just some poor guy made up to look like the spy - and they played a double-cross on whoever ordered the hit? (”Yeah, I spiked his meal - and followed him as he was walking along the beach. After a few blocks he sat down next to the wall. Some folks walked by but ignored him. I waited until morning - he wasn’t moving. It was in all the papers. Now where’s the other half of the money?”)
So that means - the real spy ..... is still out there. Somewhere.
(Well - I guess he would be 100+ years old now in the nursing home.)
Yeah, Palter got him- or herself banned quite a while back, not sure why (maybe a 9/11 truther?), but used to post a lot of stuff I could use for GGG.
He was probably a black market car seller, and died of "positional asphyxia" when he passed out a little drunk.
As Red Badger pointed out, Palter’s been gone since 2011.
The name “Keane” or “Kean” was found on three items in the suitcase. Appears that the man’s name was Thomas Keane.
http://ciphermysteries.com/2013/10/01/new-somerton-man-identification-claim
I like the show “The Blacklist”. One of the characters (with a mysterious, unknown background) is named Tom Keen. I wonder if that name was picked up from this story?
This Australian story would make for a good two-part episode on “The Blacklist”.
Well, that doesn’t sound like much of an ending but since he’s not talking to tell us the rest of the story, it will have to do!
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