The spot on Somerton beach, south of Adelaide, where the man was found on December 1, 1948.
Webb was born in 1905 but was later identified “as a person with no death record”, Abbott said. “The tree included about 4,000 people when that happened.” The pair analysed DNA evidence from hairs caught in a plaster cast made of the man’s face more than half a century ago by investigators.įitzpatrick told the Guardian she and Abbott started with a match in a DNA database (a so-called DNA-cousin to Somerton man) and then built out his family tree until they found someone who fit the description of who they were looking for. The coroner will be asked to confirm the identification.Ībbott’s research was undertaken with American genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick. South Australian police have not released a statement on the identity of the man or provided an update on their own investigation following the exhumation of the man’s body last year.
Prof Derek Abbott from the University of Adelaide said on Monday he believes the man found on 1 December 1948, was Carl “Charles” Webb, a 43-year-old electrical engineer from Melbourne. The doctor who carried out the autopsy at the time of the discovery believed the man had died from heart failure due to poisoning, and the coroner didn’t rule out murder.
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