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Derek Abbott and Colleen Fitzpatrick used DNA from hair in the 1949 identification bust and genealogical records. They announced Webb’s name in July 2022. Police treated it as a claim under review, not as a 1949 verdict.
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Somerton Man · Who was Jestyn?
The inscription name linked to Jessica Thomson, a nurse whose telephone number was in the Glenelg Rubaiyat. She told police she did not know the dead man. She was not charged. Thomas Erskine Cleland’s inquest could not state a certain cause of death. A poison was suspected and not identified to the court’s satisfaction. Identity was then unknown.
Somerton Man · How was Carl Webb named?
Derek Abbott and Colleen Fitzpatrick used DNA from hair in the 1949 identification bust and genealogical records. They announced Webb’s name in July 2022. Police treated it as a claim under review, not as a 1949 verdict.
Somerton Man · Inquest sits
Coroner Thomas Erskine Cleland hears pathologist John Burton Cleland and police. Cause of death is not settled. Identity is unknown. Derek Abbott and others press for exhumation and DNA. South Australia resists, then later permits further scientific work on existing exhibits.
Somerton Man · Carl Webb announced
Abbott and Colleen Fitzpatrick name Carl Webb from bust-hair DNA and genealogy. Police say they are reviewing the claim. Cause of death stays open. Born 1905 in Footscray, Melbourne; an instrument maker married to Dorothy Robertson. Named by Abbott and Fitzpatrick from DNA. Not a 1949 inquest finding. If the name holds, it still does not explain the death.
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Coroner Thomas Erskine Cleland hears pathologist John Burton Cleland and police. Cause of death is not settled. Identity is unknown. Derek Abbott and others press for exhumation and DNA. South Australia resists, then later permits further scientific work on existing exhibits.
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Abbott and Colleen Fitzpatrick name Carl Webb from bust-hair DNA and genealogy. Police say they are reviewing the claim. Cause of death stays open. Born 1905 in Footscray, Melbourne; an instrument maker married to Dorothy Robertson. Named by Abbott and Fitzpatrick from DNA. Not a 1949 inquest finding. If the name holds, it still does not explain the death.