Unsolved mystery gets solved after 7 decades in Australia

(The Quiver): A 73-year old mystery case of a dead man found on a beach has finally breached which rates it as one of most infamous cold cases of Australia. According to Derek Abbott from the University of Adelaide, The body belonged to Carl “Charles” Web, an electrical engineer born in Melbourne in 1905, the outlet further stated in its report.

According to sources, The well-dressed man’s body was discovered on an Australian beach slumped over. On his collar, a half-smoked cigarette was discovered, and in his pocket, a book with a wartime code and the final lines of a Persian poem were discovered.

“Tamam Shud” were the Persian words which said “Its finished” in English.

According sources, the body of a 5 feet 11 inch, gray-blue eyes, gingerly brown hairs was identified by the police on the Somerset beach on December 1948. The man was called as Somerton Man after his body was found. The man was to be in his 40’s.

The police even found some tickets of bus and train, two combs, a pair of cigarettes, but no wallet or ID card was found so the police had to send his fingerprints all over the world in hopes of identifying him.

In May of last year, his remains were excavated in an effort to solve the mystery.

Derek Abott undertook that mission and used the “Somerton man’s” DNA from his hair that had been stored by the authorities to analyze him. To create an extended family tree using the DNA, he contacted famous US forensic analyst Colleen Fitzpatrick, who specialises in cold cases.

The pair’s search was reduced to 4,000 names, from which they chose Carl Webb as the final candidate.

Mr. Abbott claims that Webb was born on November 16, 1905, in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. He was the youngest of six children.