Footnotes

1. Some books and newspapers have said that there were 22 guests at the party. This is incorrect. The confusion has come about because there were 20 guests at the party, plus Ken and Ruth Nash, making a total of 22 people at the party altogether. The correct total is 20 guests + 2 hosts. There may have been a 23rd person in the house that night. According to The Bogle Mystery (see the Bibliography), Ruth Nash's mother, then an 80-year-old woman, lived with them. The question of who was at the party is a different matter. The party has taken on a legendary aspect similar to that of Woodstock -- that is to say, if everybody who claimed to be there really was there, the numbers would have been a lot higher than they were. However, as stated above, there were only 22 people at the party, and a list of them in alphabetical order is provided here. The names are not necessarily complete, and in the case of the Johnsons I am not sure whether this is their surname or if it is an abbreviated version of the hyphenated "Moodie-Johnson". Nevertheless, here is the list:
2. A barbeque held for CSIRO staff on 21 December 1962 in MurrayBank, Sydney. Among those who attended the barbeque were the Chandlers, the Nashs, Margaret Beavis, Gib Bogle and the Paytens.

3. Some sources give the time of this phone call as being 10:10am, but this seems unlikely. Mr Styles, the River Avenue resident, gives the time of the police arrival at the scene as 9am, which is clearly a rough estimate. More importantly, McCormick and Wheway returned along the track and saw the body (McCormick for the second time) at approximately 8:45am. With the time taken to tell Mr Little (the youths stopped for a few minutes on the way to the kiosk to look for fish from the bridge), for Mr Little to return with them, and for him to then phone the police, 9:10am would seem to be a very likely time, while 10:10am would be exceedingly unlikely.

4. Sydney afternoon edition newspaper. Along with The Sun, it was one of the two Sydney afternoon newspapers of the period. Both are now defunct.

5. As quoted in As Crime Goes By... (see the bibliography).

6. The Age (Melbourne), 8 September 2006.

7. Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 8 September 2006, though this is also a direct quote from the documentary.

8. Bogle-Chandler case solved?, from ABC program "News in Science", 8 September 2006, from URL: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1735996.htm?health

I have given the quote in context, but for anybody who is interested the full quote from Associate Professor Winder on the website is/was "These two people may have been distracted by other activities [so] that's not necessarily impossible."

9. What he actually said was: "If it sneaks up gradually, you may not even notice the smell because the sensory epithelium in the nose becomes habituated." I think I have paraphrased it correctly. Quoted from article Bogle-Chandler case solved?, on ABC website and program "News in Science", 8 September 2006, URL: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1735996.htm?health

10. Bogle-Chandler: the river did it, News.com.au, 7 September 2006, though the quote is originally from the documentary. URL for this article is/was: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20373464-1702,00.html

11. Bogle-Chandler case solved?, from ABC program "News in Science", 8 September 2006, from URL: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1735996.htm?health; also The World Today – Answer to 40-year-old mystery may be rotten egg gas, from ABC program "The World Today, 8 September 2006, from URL: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1736524.htm. The latter has a much longer transcript containing this quote, but ultimately it is derived from the documentary.

12. Bogle-Chandler: the river did it, News.com.au, 7 September 2006 (URL for this article is/was: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20373464-1702,00.html). It is true that this evidence was suppressed at the time of the inquest, but that there was a semen stain on Dr Bogle's jacket has been publicly available knowledge since at least the 1980s. That it was "quite fresh" seems to be new information, however.

13. It is my presumption that he told this to the Sydney Morning Herald. The quote is taken from the 17 September 2006 edition of the newspaper.

14. The Australian, 9 September 2006.

15. Author's note: I was in Salamanca, Spain, at the time of the broadcast and consequently, on 7 October 2006 when I first published details about the hydrogen sulfide theory on this site, I had not seen it. The documentary was subsequently released on DVD and I can confirm I have now watched it.

16. It probably records in police files whether the observation was made on 2 January or 12 January, but this is information that I am not privy to.

17. The part of the interview in question did not make the broadcast cut, but is in the extras section of the DVD (which I recommend to anyone).

18. Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation.

19. Incredibly, this is true. According to New Scientist, 3 November 2007, details were first published in Science, vol 138 p1100. The elephant in question was named Tusko, and the event took place at Lincoln Park Zoo, Oklahoma City, on 3 August 1962.

Having decided to find out what would happen if you give an elephant LSD, Warren Thomas, the zoo's director, was assisted by Louis Jolyon West and Chester M. Pierce of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. They fired a cartridge containing 297 milligrams of LSD (about 3000 times the normal human dose) into the elephant, which reacted as if it had been shot. After trumpeting for some minutes the elephant fell over and despite attempts to revive it, died about an hour later.

20. To date I have not been able to independently verify the Brixton prisoner story. The only source I have been able to find for it is an article by Phillip Knightley and Alex Mitchell in the Sun Herald, 27 May 1989. The article goes into some detail, however, and seems convincing.

21. Quoted from the address Ken Buckley gave at the Annual General Meeting of the Sydney branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, on 29 March 2004. Under the title From Communism to Civil Liberties: Autobiographical and Political Reflections, the text of the speech is/was available from the URL: http://www.asslh.org.au/sydney/hummer/vol4no2/buckley.htm .

22. Mrs Pausey was the 45th witness at the inquest, giving her evidence on 24 May 1963.

23. Coins, pre-decimal currency. One florin was worth 20c at the time of decimilisation, 14 February 1966.

24. The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 May 1963, calls this parking area “Little Outer”, while The Age from the same date refers to it as “river outer” with no capital letters.

25. Geoffrey Chandler later expressed bafflement about this white handkerchief: "What could it have been? One of Ruth Nash's dinner napkins?" (So you think I did it, p117).

26. This record was beaten by the inquest into the death of Wendy Ann Purcell which opened on 26 October 1964 and concluded on 26 May 1965, after a total of 30 sitting days. It was subsequently superseded in length by (at least) the 1983 inquest into the 1975 disappearance and presumed murder of Juanita Nielsen, which ran for between 55 and 58 sitting days; the inquest into the 2002 death of Dianne Brimble; and the inquest into the 1997 Thedbo disaster which killed 18 people, which ran for 180 sitting days. The Thredbo inquest remains to date (July 2011) the longest inquest in NSW history.

27. This detail was related by Dr Laing on 1 March 1972, to a meeting of the Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales. Mr Murray was among those in the audience.

28. I have assumed 10:30am as the most logical time, but it's difficult to determine exactly when the post-mortem examinations began. According to The Bogle Mystery, Laing said it was at about 10:30am, So you think I did it gives the time as 10am or 11am, The Age (22 May 1963) cites 11:30am, and the evidence of Alan Clarke, as recounted in So you think I did it, also implies it was about 11:30am.

29. At least, according to Geoffrey Chandler. (So you think I did it, p70)

30. The semen stain is mentioned in The Book of Leaks, published 1987.

31. Leicester Cotton, writing as Stafford Silk, says in The Bogle Mystery that "many who joined the queue for admittance waited all day without gaining admittance" (p100). He also says that there was a "record crowd" for the court, but whether this is true or just said for effect is difficult to determine.

32. 23 May 1963.

33. Leicester Cotton, writing as Stafford Silk in The Bogle Mystery (p101), says that "It is one thing to try and evade Press photographers; it is quite another to succeed. It is far better in the long run to give way gracefully. You may outwit some of them some of the time, but you will never outwit all of them all of the time. And if you think you have then you may as well make up your mind that they didn't want your picture anyway." In fact Geoffrey Chandler had successful avoided being photographed since January, despite the best efforts of the press.

34. As an example of how different accounts of the inquest can give wildly differing versions of what was said, Leicester Cotton, writing as Stafford Silk in his book The Bogle Mystery describes this exact same exchange as being:

Sgt Goode: What did you tell her, using if you can, the exact words?

Geoffrey Chandler stroked his beard reflectively. "My recollection is that I said: 'Margaret is at Croydon.' I may have said that I had taken her there, but I don't remember."

In this example I have used the version given in the The Age, since it closely corresponds with the account given in the Sydney Morning Herald that "She had asked him where Margaret was and he had given her to understand Margaret was at Croydon."

35. Leicester Cotton's account has Sergeant Goode shaking his head in mock bewilderment as he says this.

36. 24 May 1963.

37. Evidence in chief, as opposed to cross-examination. That is, evidence to the questioning of Sergeant Goode, as opposed to the questioning by Mr Ward, Mr Collins or Mr Murray.

38. Geoffrey Chandler, in So you think I did it (p152) says Sherry was heading to a church in Ashfield, but other versions say Burwood and Burwood seems more geographically likely.

39. So you think I did it says the first dress was purchased on 1 December, the second between 21 and 31 December. However The Bogle Mystery says the first one was purchased before 21 December, the second between Christmas and 31 December. Both could technically be accurate but without, for example, a newspaper account of Coleman's evidence, it's impossible to determine which she actually said.

40. 2:44pm according to The Bogle Mystery

41. 28 May 1963.

42. According to The Bogle Mystery, Smith said he had spent the weekend with the Chandlers at times, but whether this meant this meant literally staying with the Chandlers for the weekend is unclear, and no other sources repeat this information.

43. Quite why Smith was upset and hadn’t slept for 50 hours, in March, is unexplained.

44. Geoffrey Chandler later said in his book, So you think I did it, that he did not really know what Mr Murray meant by this remark.

45. Geoffrey Chandler later wrote in his book, So you think I did it, that he was not present when Mr Murray made this speech. However, reading it over later, he said he began to appreciate a little more than he had before, what the skills of a good professional lawyer were.

46. Chester in England. This seems to be a well-known point of law. Interestingly, while both the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age split the quote into two paragraphs, The Age quotes them in precisely the wrong order.


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