Mystery AtlasCarl Webb
Melbourne-born electrical engineer and instrument maker (1905-1948), identified in 2022 via DNA from a 1949 plaster death mask and forensic genetic genealogy as the Somerton Man; estranged from his wife, with little documented life after 1947.
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Carl Webb is the confirmed identity of Somerton Man — Announced by Derek Abbott and genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick in July 2022 from DNA in hair from the 1949 death mask; independently corroborated by South Australia Police's own DNA sequencing of the exhumed remains by December 2022.