Body on Somerton Beach

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Carl 'Charles' Webb's prisoner-of-war brother bares resemblance to Somerton Man - ABC News

Thanks DJA
interesting. the keane connection is another link theyre probably on the right track.

another odd aspect of the case, is that Abbott, the professor who broke this is married to the grand daughter of jo thompson, the nurse whos phone number was found in the dead mans book. so weird

[DJA]

Carl 'Charles' Webb's prisoner-of-war brother bares resemblance to Somerton Man - ABC News

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The police DNA analysis is purposely being kept separate.More to come.

got it. thanks Dja!

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A lot of smart people shopped at Op shops.

[harry]

Hope this latest find leads to a solution. One thing I find odd is the suggestion the clothes ,or part of them were hand me downs.Surely an electrical engineer would be earning enough that he wouldn't be in a situation where he needed hand me downs?

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More
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...fied-australia

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none of the links posted say anything about the dna from the exhumed body. theyre all talking about dna from hair given to the professor tjat was stuck in the death mask. obviously this raises questions about the provenance of the dna/hair.

earlier in this thread it was mentioned the police exhumed the body to analize dna directly from the body.

that is my question..what is going with the dna analysis from tje exhumed body that the police were doing?

The police DNA analysis is purposely being kept separate.More to come.

[Pcdunn]

What an interesting result to a long investigation! Thank you to those who provided links to news articles.

Mr. Webb seems to have been of an era where he would be educated enough to know the "Rubiyat", and he seems handsome enough in the forensic reconstruction. I wonder if his wearing clothes marked as his brother-in-law's offers insight to his possible economic status at the time of his death? If he was a gambler, as suggested, he might have been poverty-stricken.

There are always questions, I guess.

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Yep.
Read Jeff's CNN link.

none of the links posted say anything about the dna from the exhumed body. theyre all talking about dna from hair given to the professor tjat was stuck in the death mask. obviously this raises questions about the provenance of the dna/hair.

earlier in this thread it was mentioned the police exhumed the body to analize dna directly from the body.

that is my question..what is going with the dna analysis from tje exhumed body that the police were doing?

[DJA]

Yep.
Read Jeff's CNN link.

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does anyone know the answer to my previous post?

[JeffHamm]

Others have beat me to it, but I saw this today as well:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/26/a...dst/index.html

- Jeff

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-...8nvV5h5VGq8mgg

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Might have been a Melbourne born 43 year old electrical engineer named Carl Webb.

More to come.

thanks DJA
so they never exhumed him for the DNA? I thought they had and where in process of analyzing the DNA?

now this? where a professor is using DNA from strands of hair that was caught in the death Mask? WTF? Id say theres a little probem with the provenance then. But I guess well see.. now that theres a name hopefully it pans out.

[DJA]

Might have been a Melbourne born 43 year old electrical engineer named Carl Webb.

More to come.