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


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