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He had been buried at a cemetery since 1949 with a tombstone reading: "Here lies the unknown man who was found at Somerton Beach." The police hoped to use his DNA to find out who the well-dressed man really was.
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There were bus and train tickets, a chewing gum, some matches, two combs and a pack of cigarettes in his pockets but no identification proof like wallet or ID card, forcing the police to send his fingerprints around the world, but no one could identify him.Īccording to New York Times, his remains were exhumed in May last year in a bid to solve the case. The man was called "Somerton man" after the beach where his body was found. The CNN report said that he had gray-blue eyes and gingery-brown hair. The man was well-built, believed to be in his 40s and around 5 feet 11 inches tall. The body was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide on December 1, 1948.
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The Persian words on the torn piece of paper were "Tamam Shud", which means "it's finished" in English, said the outlet. All this prompted speculation for decades that the man was a spy.
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A half-smoked cigarette was found resting on his collar, and a wartime code scribbled in a book along with the final words of a Persian poem in his pocket, according to the CNN report. The body of the well-dressed man was found slumped on the Australian beach. For more than seven decades, the identity of the man has been a mystery that spawned theories featuring jilted lover to Cold War spy and remained one of Australia's most infamous cold cases. Derek Abbott, from the University of Adelaide, said that the body belonged to Carl "Charles" Web, an electrical engineer born in Melbourne in 1905, the outlet further said in its report. An Australian researcher claims to have solved a 73-year-old mystery by identifying a man found dead on a beach, CNN said in a report.