Projects:2015s1-32 Code Cracking: Who Murdered The Somerton Man?
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Honours students
Project guidelines
General project description
In this project you will attempt to solve a possible murder that took place in Adelaide in 1948. This crime remains unsolved till today, but you can use engineering to bring our knowledge closer to the killer. You can read the details about the dead body and the circumstances [1]
Associated with the dead body was this secret code:
- MRGOABABD
- MTBIMPANETP
- MLIABOAIAQC
- ITTMTSAMSTGAB
(See the original photograph, as there may be an extra line, and some of the M's may be W's. Some people also think that the last "I" is really a "V". Also the last G is probably really a C). To this day code crackers have been unable to decrypt it.
We also want you to bring the skills of an electrical engineer to bear on the area of e-forensics and see if you can apply these to other areas of the case (eg. graphical reconstruction of the dead man's face).
