![]() I thought I’d start the research ball rolling by posting some of Carl Webb’s family tree and a few thoughts. Which means that for the moment, even though the Somerton Man has been identified, the Somerton Man mystery remains pretty much wide open. The downside is that nobody has any photo of Webb, or indeed any record relating to him (apart from his birth). Oh, and no, nobody else had heard of him either.ĭerek Abbott got the final confirmation via a DNA test from some close relatives that arrived on 23rd July, which capped several years of fairly painstaking genealogical research by him and Fitzpatrick. ![]() ![]() And it’s… Carl Webb, a 43-year-old electrical engineer / instrument maker from Melbourne. The big news of the day (which I first saw on CNN) is that Professor Derek Abbott and Colleen Fitzpatrick have used DNA from the hair embedded in the plaster cast of the Somerton Man’s head to identify the Somerton Man. ![]()
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