I guess you may have read my account about the teeth comparison of the Pyjama Girl body and gazette notices v dental cast used in the inquest.

But you may not have read my account of Palmer-Benbow. I think like Evans you arrived at the idea he was a crank but if you research his past you find he was a surgeon on several military fronts and a highly praised medical student.

I mean if Evans thought Palmer-Benbow ws a crank why did he write an MA based on his forensic discoveries. Did he think he was duped by 2022 when he wrote about MacKay?

I read Evan's MA not his book. But I assume the book is his MA made pretty. and perhap dropping the references you get in a university thesis.

I think Evan's research on Benbow's background was poor when there was so much to find - even on Trove. He has him as some cruise ship doctor stealing the fortunes of wealthy widows. It ignores him being a top class surgeon. Benbow had put himself in peril on war-fronts on many occasions.

Then there's his facial ID techniques of measuring facial landmarks. You have someone who invented facial ID in 1939. Yet Australia keeps on insulting the man.

"Halliday Sutherland describes in his 1947 book Southward Journey:

“In 1939 Dr. Palmer Benbow … a system devised by himself had begun to compare facial measurements from photographs of missing girls with those of the Pyjama Girl”

I also think you (and Evans) should read Lezli-An Barret’s 2017 PHD thesis, The Pyjama Girl and Submerged women, liminal voices: A feminist investigation of feature film screenwriting as creative practice. It is possibly the most factually accurate historical account - with obvious dramatisation for a film. A brilliant script.

I keep asking film makers to make it happen.