Primary source material on the Taman Shud Case

Police files

• Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) report 1959
• Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) report 1948
• Police file 1949
• City Coroner's Police Report on the Mangnoson Case 1949

Police gazettes

• Joseph Marshall (missing person), New South Wales Police Gazette, 4th July 1945, p. 325
• Missing Persons, New South Wales Police Gazette, 1948, pp. 8-668
• Missing Persons, New South Wales Police Gazette, 1949, pp. 21-662

Magisterial inquiry

• Magisterial Inquiry on Marshall Case 1945

The inquest documents

• The 1949 inquest
• The 1958 inquest

The death certificate

• The unknown man's death certificate

Notes and diaries

• The Lawson diaries (1949)
• Len Brown's notes (1987)
• Pakie's guest book (1929-1966)

The code

• The code letters at the back of the Omar Khayyam (1948)

The Somerton Man's fingerprint chart

• Fingerprint chart

The Somerton Man's tooth chart

• Tooth chart

Ear anatomy

• Bree Kearney, Variations of the External Ear in an Australian Population for the Purposes of Identification, Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 27th October 2003

Video

• Stateline Report 2009: Taman Shud Case (Part 1)
• Stateline Report 2009: Taman Shud Case (Part 2)
• Somerton Beach Mystery: Part 1/3
• Somerton Beach Mystery: Part 2/3
• Somerton Beach Mystery: Part 3/3
• Taman Shud Code Investigation (2009)
• Taman Shud Code Investigation (2010)

Journal articles

• John H. Phillips, "Phillips' brief," Criminal Law Journal, Vol. 18, 1994, pp. 108-110.
• Ruth Balint, "The Somerton Man: An unsolved history," Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 16, no. 2, 2010, pp. 159–78.

Alf Boxall's military records

• Boxall's WWI Officer's Record of Service

Copies of Omar Khayyam

• The Wells copy of Omar Khayyam

Sands and McDougall directories

• 1947 South Australian Sands and McDougall Directory
• 1948 South Australian Sands and McDougall Directory
• 1950 South Australian Sands and McDougall Directory

Useful maps

• Jetty Rd, Glenelg, 1948 with occupants

See also

• Critical design review 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?
• Final report 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?
• Timeline of the Taman Shud Case
• List of people connected to the Taman Shud Case
• List of facts on the Taman Shud Case that are often misreported
• List of facts we do know about the Somerton Man
• The Taman Shud Case Coronial Inquest
• Letter frequency plots
• Structural Features of the Code
• Cipher Cracking 2009
• Secondary source material on the Taman Shud Case

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