Timeline of the Taman Shud Case

• 1948 December 1st, estimated time of death of man 2:00am.
• 1948 December 1st, man found dead at 6.30am, Somerton Beach, Adelaide.
• 1948 December 2nd, The Advertiser newspaper in an article "Body found on beach" suggests the "E. C. Johnson" is the deceased man.
• 1948 December 3rd, Johnson walks into a police station to prove he is alive. This possibility is thus eliminated.
• 1948 December 4th, Police announce that the Somerton Man's fingerprints were not on South Australian police records.
• '1948 December 5th, Police search military records in response to a reported sighting of a military man named 'Solomonson', resembling the Somerton Man, was sighted drinking at a hotel in Glenelg on November 30th, 1948.
• 1948 December 10th, the dead body was embalmed in formaldehyde to preserve it.
• 1949 January, two people identified the body as that of 63 year old former wood cutter Robert Walsh. This possibility was ruled out as the dead body looked too young to be Walsh> Also Walsh was a Woodcutter and the hands of the Somerton man showed no signs of manual labor.
• 1978 The ABC TV documentary show called Inside Story screened an episode of "The Somerton Beach Mystery" at 8pm, Thursday, August 24th, 1978 (Sydney time). The documentary was put together by Stuart Littlemore.
• 2009 March 19th, Derek Abbott checks the original pathology report books of 1948 and 1949, finding there is no entry for the Somerton Man.

See also

• Critical design review 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?
• Final report 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?
• List of people connected to the Taman Shud Case
• Cipher Cracking 2009

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