![]() Bilsborow says the theory that Somerton man was a Russian spy emerged in the 1970s at the time of the cold war, particularly fuelled by the writing in the copy of the Rubáiyát they interpreted as code.Īlso written on the back cover was the phone number of young nurse – later identified by Abbott as Jo Thomson – who lived a five minute walk away from where the man was found dead. The copy not only had its last page torn out, but also incoherent writing believed to be a code on its back cover. The handwriting found in the back of a book of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, theorised to be a sort of code. He said it had been thrown into the back of his car around the time of the incident. The police had asked the public if anyone had a copy of the book with the last page missing, and a man came forward with the last page torn out. The phrase was identified as coming from the classic book of Persian poetry Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The links to Thomson go back to the scrap of paper with the Persian words for “finished” found in the man’s fob pocket in his trousers. She said the news also “turns on its head” the theory in her documentary that Australian ballet dancer Robin Thomson was the son of Somerton man. “But to find out that he’s Australian, from Victoria, and that he died, and no one obviously noticed he was missing, or no one followed up with the police that he was missing – I find that particularly kind of tragic.” I was convinced that he was from Europe – maybe a displaced person after the second world war was here alone.” “We had all these grandiose ideas about him being Russian, American and European. “We knew this day was going to come at some point,” she said. ![]() It’s much more than identifying the Somerton man as Carl Webb, it’s also solving the mystery of how and why he died – that may take years.”Ĭarolyn Bilsborow, a film-maker and director of the documentary Missing Pieces about Somerton man, said the news was incredibly exciting. ![]() It has been one of the most interesting cases in Australia’s history. Photograph: WikimediaĪs to why the Melbourne man was in Adelaide, Abbott said: “We have evidence that he had separated from his wife, and that she had moved to South Australia, so possibly he had come to track her down.”įitzpatrick said: “This is an amazing mystery to solve. 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. Creating a new power set requires a lot of time.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. While many fans have been rather miffed by the reward after some quite gruelling challenges, Sucker Punch did state on their Twitter that "Paper Power would have been cool. Many fans had hoped for Celia's Paper Power to become available once the DLC had been completed, but Sucker Punch has sadly confirmed that the reward is simply a mask resembling Celia's and four new jackets. Noted for her rather awesome Paper power (hence the DLC name), players were tasked with completing both in-game missions and rather cryptic (and sometimes brutally hard) ARG website tasks. InFamous: Second Son's on-going free DLC, Paper Trail, has concluded today with the sixth and final part now available to all owners of the game developer Sucker Punch announced today.Īvailable since the launch of the game, the Paper Trail DLC has had users travel around the virtual city of Seattle as they uncover some rather dark secrets about one of the first Conduits, Celia.
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