Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:40 - Content Warning + Summer Time!

1:31 - Muriel Joan Drinkwater

3:16 - Missing

5:19 - Investigation Begins

7:44 - Persons of Interest

12:09 - Harold Jones

16:34 - Cold Case & DNA Technology

20:05 - DNA Clears Potential Suspects

23:30 - New Possible Suspect

26:36 - Effects On The Family & An Unanswered Question

30:07 - Final Thoughts

Cold Trace Video - Documentary where they were testing the sound of shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yrRcHi0zl8&t=130s

https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/23/one-britains-longest-unsolved-crimes-murder-schoolgirl-muriel-drinkwater-23349284/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7708974.stm

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/the-muriel-drinkwater-case-can-they-crack-the-coldest-murder-case-lg98xvhzqlh?region=global

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/unsolved-murder-12-year-old-19232081

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/muriel-drinkwater-murder-harold-jones-16207548

https://herald.wales/national-news/crime/the-unsolved-murder-of-muriel-drinkwater/

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/detectives-link-muriel-drinkwater-and-sheila-martin-murders-vw3fx2ltcsp

https://morbidology.com/the-little-red-riding-hood-murder-of-muriel-drinkwater/

https://www.thetimes.com/best-law-firms/profile-legal/article/muriel-drinkwater-murder-file-is-declared-secret-at-request-of-police-q62dm0jg93m

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/western-mail/20181019/281895889216744

The Times, 24 March, 2009 – “Even if it was 100 Years Ago, We’d Still Search”

South Wales Evening Post, 19 October, 2018 – “The Chilling Little Red Riding Hood Murder Which is Still Unsolved Today”

South Wales Echo, 2 May, 2019 – “DNA Rules out Valleys Child Murderer as Killer of Young Muriel in 1946”

Another Documentary:

https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/muriel-drinkwater/umc.cmc.3yapmfrq6hja2vtrkmtsquci3?showId=umc.cmc.41vif7hpzcg5mmxge9iqjd89z

0:00 - Intro

0:25 - Disclaimer & Inspo for todays episode

1:21 - The Origin of Monopoly

2:44 - The REAL Origin of Monopoly

12:49 - The History of MI9

15:33 - Christopher Clayton Hutton

20:45 - Maps & Monopoly

25:58 - Getting the games into the POW Camps

30:18 - Knowing what to look for

31:42 - Sending a message

34:08 - Other ways they snuck stuff in

35:17 - The American Effort

36:43 - Game Over

38:22 - Declassified

Sources:

https://www.visitforgottonia.com/lizzie-magie-inventor-of-monopoly/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62285/how-brilliant-intelligence-officer-used-monopoly-free-wwii-pows

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/mi9-the-ingenious-secret-service-of-the-second-world-war https://www.thelegendofq.co.uk/christopher-clayton-hutton.html

http://www.ww2rafcollection.co.uk/RAF_Collection/Aircrew_Evasion_&_Escape.html

A ton of other sources are linked on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hutton

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/woman-inventor-behind-monopoly

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=ohiou1651700929726961&disposition=inline

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Disclaimer - Requested Solved case
1:27 - The Man On The Beach
3:49 - Police Arrive
7:14 - Autopsy
10:28 - Un-Natural Death
13:19 - The Suitcase
20:48 - New Evidence & The Inquest
23:10 - The Book
28:31 - Jilted Lover Theory
31:00 - Spy Theory
33:54 - Derek Abbott
40:11 - Derek & Colleen’s Announcement
41:50 - Identity of the Somerton Man
45:13 - Muscular Calves
47:25 - Clothing tags
49:40 - The Code:
51:27 - The Divorce Documents
54:04 - Final Thoughts

►Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-enduring-mystery-somerton-man-one-of-australias-most-puzzling-cold-cases-50795611/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62314555
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/somerton-manfamily-photographs-revealed-/101643524
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71520/mysterious-death-somerton-man
https://biographics.org/the-somerton-man-australias-greatest-crime-mystery/
https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/finding-information/discover-our-collection/stories-from-the-archive/but-what-poison-mystery-of-the-somerton-man
https://www.jahernandez.com/posts/tamam-shud-case-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11063903/Toxic-marriage-explain-death-Somerton-Man-new-details-emerge-1948-mystery.html
https://ciphermysteries.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man/the-somerton-mans-secrets-part-1
https://anemptyglass.fandom.com/wiki/Genetic_Evidence
Divorce papers stuff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/somerton-manfamily-photographs-revealed-/101643524
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/somerton-man-who-was-carl-charles-webb/101288890
Claims to have solved the “secret code”
https://www.abc27.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/703090579/rest-of-australias-somerton-man-case-mystery-solved-using-his-own-code-as-deciphered-in-2021-okcir-sociologist-reports/
Books about this case (prior to it being solved)
The Unknown Man – book by Gerry Feltus
Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery – by Kerry Greenwood
The Identity:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-solved-claim-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11451865/Somerton-Man-Charles-Webbs-true-identity-revealed-family-photographs-divorce-papers.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/27/somerton-man-mystery-identity-solved-identified-australia
https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/somerton-man-mystery-solved-professor-identifies-man-found-on-beach-in-1948/news-story/d66ba706a66e30561dbe0ba355edbfe0 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-26/somerton-man-identified-melbourne-born-engineer-researcher-says/101272182?fbclid=IwAR2AM4MaGLhu0l2wIPhG844dnkLCOu_hzRfDlVSUKRRAHqjnX8y9uMFnmdk https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62314555
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