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The Somerton Man

Criminal

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The Case of the Summerton Man

There were clothes in the suitcase, including a sports coat and a pair of red slippers. There's also a shaving kit, a container of boot polish and a butter knife that had been filed down to a sharp point. The name Keen had been written on a tie, and Keen was printed on a canvas laundry bag. A well-known pathologist named John Burton Cleland was asked to take a look at the body. Derek Abbott says he thought of a few things the original investigators hadn't considered.

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