The Tamám Shud case mystery
The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man. After the body of the Somerton Man was found on an Australian beach in December 1948, police found a mysterious scrap of paper reading "Tamám Shud" in his pocket. Mortuary photograph of the Somerton Man, the victim at the heart of the Tamám Shud case, taken on December of 1948. On Dec. But several theories have emerged in the past few decades, suggesting that the mysterious figure could have been anything from a spy to a spurned lover. After 70 years, however, some investigators have new reasons to hope that the Somerton Man might finally be identified and that the Tamám Shud case might be solved once and for all. Not only did the man’s possessions offer few clues, but investigators also found a slip of paper in the man’s pocket which read “Tamám Shud,” Persian for, “it is finished.” To date, the Somerton Man has never been identified. Well-dressed, and with no signs of trauma, his identity and cause of deat...