Holt, who goes there?

A change to the law in Victoria means that state's coroner will now conduct inquiries into more than a hundred drownings where a body was never recovered. The cases to be examined include the disappearance, and presumed drowning, of Harold Holt. The nation's 18th Prime Minister disappeared off Cheviot Beach in Victoria in December 1967. But, while there have been many bizarre theories about Holt's fate, in December 1997 The Bug published the following story revealing the truth once and for all.

To the untrained eye, the skull numbered JX25321 at the Memorial Stupa in Cambodia is no different from the many thousands of others that bear silent witness to the horrors of the killing fields of the early 1970s.
In a world exclusive, The Bug can now disclose the skull's bizarre link to a famous incident that has mystified Australians for the past three decades.
A team of senior reporters, commissioned by The Bug to finally put to rest the bizarre disappearance of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt in December 1967, stumbled upon skull JX25321 as part of their extensive worldwide investigations early this year.
An eagle-eyed member of the team noticed that the skull's facemask and snorkle were the exact same brand - Aqua Master - and colour - midnight black - that the Liberal Prime Minister was wearing when he waded into wild surf at Cheviot Beach near Porstea, Victoria, on December 17, 1967.
Initial inquiries revealed that the Aqua Master range, which was never exported by its Melbourne-based manufacturer, was phased out in 1968.
The excited team then could not believe their luck when their examination of meticulously kept Khmer Rouge records revealed that skull JX25321 belonged to a Cambodian peasant named Harri Holtee, executed on December 15, 1977, at the height of Pol Pot's murderous regime of terror aimed at turning Cambodia into a Maoist, peasant-dominated agrarian co-operative.
But were the mask and storkle - and the similar sounding name - sufficient to satisfy the team that they had indeed solved the mystery of what happened to Holt?
With the permission of the then recently installed People's New Improved Democratic Popular Front Government in Cambodia, The Bug investigative team took the skull to the State Forensic Laboratory in suburban Phnom Penh.
Their excitment grew when head forensic examiner Tran Sient declared after only a cursory examination that the skull's cranial space was indeed small enough to have been an Australian Liberal Prime Minister's.
Any lingering doubts the team harboured that the skull was indeed that of a highly placed Australian Liberal politican were dispelled when Tran discovered the skull had an exceptionally underdeveloped apical mastecal lobe - that part of the brain responsible for allowing people to remember where they've left their trousers.
The team asked Tran to reconstruct the skull's facial features, using the latest computer technology and 21st Century imaging techniques.
"The result was simply quite staggering," our chief reporter said.
"It was uncanny. There before us on Tran's workbench was an exact replica of former United States president Lyndon Johnson's big fat arse.
"We knew then that we had our man."