3. The Taman Shud Case
From Wikipedia:
The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after a phrase, tamám shud, meaning “ended” or “finished” in Persian, printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man’s trousers. This scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – a collection of poems attributed to the 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám. In some early reports of the case, Tamam was misspelt Taman, and the error has often been repeated.
Following a public appeal by police, the copy of the Rubaiyat from which the page had been torn was located. On the inside back cover of the book, detectives were able to read – in indentations from handwriting – a local telephone number, another unidentified number and a text that resembled an encrypted message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case.
Interestingly, a person on Reddit claimed to have solved the cipher four years ago but was largely ignored. Here’s a sample:
You will need to read this a few times to understand its complexities. There was not one Aust Communist Spy convicted in Claytons Spy Ring, and this was because to convict them the Venona Cables would have had to be publicly released and the ‘powers that be’ were not prepared to do that. A lot of the spies lived a full and happy life and some still waited for the next Communist Revolution. Christiansen visited China repeatedly and they Loved him. Clayton ‘went fishing’ when his spy ring was exposed and in hiding when the Omar Khayyam was found, he died in 1997 aged 90. The Somerton Man’s identify had to be hidden or else again the Venona Codes would have been exposed. I personally believe at this stage he was a possible KGB agent working as a Russian Ballet dancer things seem to point to this but as yet I have no proof. I have someone in mind but need help to identify and expose him as the information must come from Russia.
4. The Woman Murders In Ciudad Juarez
Around seven years ago there was an exhibit in Mexico City subway about this killings.
It was fairly small, it mostly comprised the belongings of four or five women that had been found murdered. There were the dresses, some of them still stained with blood, purses, wallets and so. And each of them had a plaque bearing the woman’s name, age, and dates of disappearance and discovery.
And then the last dress only had the date of discovery and the legend “Unidentified.”
From Wikipedia:
The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish feminicidio (“feminicide”) involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women and girls since 1993 in the northern Mexican region of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. As of February 27, 2005, the number of murdered women in Ciudad Juárez since 1993 is estimated to be more than 370.
After surveying 155 killings out of 340 documented between 1993 and 2003, a government committee found that roughly half were prompted by motives like robbery and gang wars, while a little more than a third involved sexual assault.
The murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez since 1993 have received international attention, primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing violence against women and girls and bringing perpetrators to justice.
