 In 2009 , West Australian farmer Tom Baxter handed a skull to authorities , arguing that it was the one stolen from the gaol – while refusing to explain how he obtained it . Former Pentridge prison chaplain Father Peter Norden has stated that he believed the skull handed in could not belong to Kelly , and that it probably belonged to a woman . In 2010 , there was further speculation that the skull actually belonged to Frederick Bailey Deeming , with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine claiming that the skull is similar to both Kelly 's and Deeming 's death masks . 
