[Bon of Babble]

This story is always included in “Greatest Mysteries of All Time” roundups.

With DNA technology now, especially using genealogy, they may be able to crack this case after this mysterious stranger and his mysterious death.

[Red Badger]

There once was a dead man from Perth,
Police could not ascertain his birth,
About six feet tall,
Found slumped on a wall,
Now they search for all that he’s worth..................

[fidelis]

"Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World" did a pretty extensive podcast on "Somerton Man" a couple of years back:

Somerton Man

[Robert DeLong]

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed “the Astronomer-Poet of Persia”.

[Preachin']

I have now found myself really researching this heavily today. I’d never heard of this case, but love detective work like this.

[Billthedrill]

Great mystery. The case reeks of espionage but not necessarily Cold War - lots of WWII debts were still being paid off in 1948.