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===Case Background===
[[Image:SomertonManBody.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The dead body of the Somerton Man.]]
At around 6.30 am on December 1st 1948 a dead body was discovered at Somerton Beach, here in South Australia, resting against a rock opposite a home for crippled children.  The post mortem revealed that the man’s organs were too heavily congested for the cause of death to have been natural.  46 years later, in 1994, forensic science was used to determine that the man had died from digitalis which, at the time of the man’s death, was only accessible with a prescription<ref name="Taman Shud Wiki">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case</ref>.

The man was found with several possessions including:
*Cigarettes
*Matches
*A metal comb
*Chewing gum
*A railway ticket to Henley Beach
*A bus ticket; and
*A tram ticket


By far the most intriguing of his possessions however is the small piece of paper with the phrase “Tamam Shud”( meaning "ended" or "finished") on it. This piece of paper was identified to be from a book of poems called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam], a famous Persian poet. After an announcement was made by the police the copy of The Rubaiyat to which the piece of paper belonged was produced by a local person who said he had found the book in the back seat of his unlocked car on the 30th of November<ref name="Taman Shud Wiki"/>. 


The book contained had two things pencilled into it:
*A phone number that lead police to a female named Jestyn.  Jestyn was a nurse that denied all knowledge of the dead man.
*A short code of what appeared to be random or encrypted letters.