Editing Leonard Douglas Brown (section)

===Timeline===
* '''1948''' October, Len Brown is promoted to detective.
* '''1949''' January 8th, Det.-Sgt. [[Raymond Lionel Leane|Lionel Leane]] is assigned to the case.
* '''1949''' January 12th, police detective Len Brown is assigned to the case.
* '''1949''' January 14th, Adelaide Railway Station find a brown suitcase apparently belonging to the dead man.
* '''1949''' January 19th, police finally took possession of the suitcase.
* '''1949''' February, there were eight different possible identifications of the body, including a missing stable hand, a worker on a steamship, a Swedish man, and a man from Darwin.
* '''1949''' June, [[John Cleland|Burtie Cleland]] re-examined the body and noticed the dead man's shoes were remarkably clean and polished, implying the man would not have walked on the beach much if at all. About this time Cleland found the piece of paper bearing the inscription "Tamám Shud" tightly concealed in the dead man's fob pocket. 
* '''1949''' June 14th, the Somerton man is buried.
* '''1949''' June 15th, [[Paul Francis Lawson|Paul Lawson]] completes finishing touches to the bust. Len Brown, Lionel Leane, and Burtie Cleland inspect the bust. 
* '''1949''' June 17th, The coronal inquest begins in the [[IOOF]] building at 11-13 Flinder's Street, Adelaide. 
* '''1949''' June 21st, The coronal inquest ended inclusively with an [[Sine die|adjournment ''sine die'']]. Len Brown moves on and is assigned to another case.
* '''1977''' September, Len Brown is filmed  for the ABC ''Inside Story'' documentary on the Somerton case.
* '''1977''' December 31st, Len Brown retires.
* '''1978''' August 24th, Len Brown appearance in the ABC ''Inside Story'' documentary goes to air.