If memory serves, during one investigation, textual evidence from the man's personal effects led right to his identity, but his sig other denied it was him. :^)
Posted on 07/26/2022 6:36:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Derek Abbott, from the University of Adelaide, says the body of a man found on one of the city's beaches in 1948 belonged to Carl "Charles" Webb, an electrical engineer and instrument maker born in Melbourne in 1905.
Last May, South Australia police responded to Abbott's calls to exhume the Somerton man's body and experts at Forensic Science SA started work to try to find the best way to analyze his DNA.
But in the end, Abbott, a professor in the Adelaide University School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, claims it was strands of the man's hair trapped in a plaster "death" mask made by police in the late 1940s that provided him with what he says is proof of the man's identity.
Police gave Abbott strands of the hair a decade ago as he continued what had become a personal quest to solve the Somerton man mystery. The hair was examined for years by a team of DNA experts at the University of Adelaide, who provided the DNA information that allowed Abbott and Fitzpatrick to further narrow the field.
By March, Abbott said he had already established Webb's name through years of painstaking work with Fitzpatrick to build a complex family tree of around 4,000 names that led to Webb, whose date of death had not been recorded.
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You would think that such a man would have been easier to identify. It isn’t as though he was a feral homeless guy.
It was a shocking coincidence and he didn’t want to believe it at first, but his resistance eventually diminished.
You’d say “Watt?”. That would be quite a power factor.
It had very odd details. Clothing labels ripped out, items that were American, odd verse... For some time, they thought he was a Russian spy. https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/professor-identifies-mystery-corpse-found-on-beach-in-1948-as-carl-charles-webb/
Amazing that he had the capacity to do a volte-face and acknowledge it . . .
“Amazing that he had the capacity to do a volte-face and acknowledge it “
Perhaps with some reluctance. But even that did not impede him in the end. Shocking that they’d both be from the same field.
I like your views on current events. Drop me a wire some time. I’ll see if I can arrange a plug for you on TV
If memory serves, during one investigation, textual evidence from the man's personal effects led right to his identity, but his sig other denied it was him. :^)
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/tamam-shud-case/m02q489z?hl=en
Tamam Shud case
Dec 1, 1948 - ...
The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The case is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning “is over” or “is finished”, which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man’s trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th century poet Omar Khayyám. Tamám was misspelt as Tamán in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media.
Following a public appeal by police, the book from which the page had been torn was located. On the inside back cover, detectives read through indentations left from previous handwriting - a local telephone number, another unidentified number, and text that resembled an encrypted message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case.
The case has been considered, since the early stages of the police investigation, “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.
XCVI
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth’s sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
XCVII
Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse—if dimly, yet indeed, reveal’d,
To which the fainting Traveller might spring,
As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
XCVIII
Would but some wing’ed Angel ere too late
Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
And make the stern Recorder otherwise
Enregister, or quite obliterate!
XCIX
Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!
C
Yon rising Moon that looks for us again—
How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden—and for one in vain!
CI
And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass
Among the Guests Star-scatter’d on the Grass,
And in your joyous errand reach the spot
Where I made One—turn down an empty Glass!
http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html
( I don’t like Joe Scott, but I nabbed these verses as he had quoted the R.o.O.K., but managed to mangle the Roman numerals, or perhaps used a different edition, Fitzgerald did a bunch of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_JrmYsU0I )
Inductive reasoning is always helpful. This guy was apparently just wired that way...
You mean resistance? Don’t let that impede your capacity to Amp up the ....
(you get where i’m going, right? :) )
Socket to me.
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win-
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!
Ok, but there will be a small charge
I clicked the “like” button, nothin’ happened... :^)
I missed all the puns on the first pass through here.
The guy’s FR nick would have been Sparky, had he lived.
I got a warm fuzzy feeling about that time. That’s better than nothin’...
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