A dead man's pocket held a code no spy can crack
When a well-dressed man washed up on an Australian beach in 1948, investigators found a hidden scrap of paper that launched a 70-year-old cold case.
On a summer morning at Somerton Beach, police discovered a body with no identification and every clothing label meticulously cut away. Tucked into a secret fob pocket in his trousers was a tiny, rolled-up scrap of paper with the Persian words 'Tamám Shud,' meaning 'it is ended.' This scrap had been torn from a rare edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, which was later found in an unlocked car.
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