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A dead man carrying a note that said "it is finished" remained unidentified for 74 years.
His body turned up on a beach near Adelaide, Australia, in December 1948.
Every label had been removed from his clothes. There was no wallet, no ID, nothing to say who he was.
Hidden in a secret pocket sewn into his trousers, police found a tiny scrap of paper torn from a rare book of poetry, reading "Tamam Shud", Persian for "it is finished."
The note led to a rare book. The book led to a phone number and a code. Neither led to an answer.
In 2022, DNA pulled from hairs on his death mask finally identified him: Carl
"Charles" Webb, an electrical engineer from Melbourne.
Investigators finally had a name. The name answered almost nothing.
It didn't explain how he died, why his clothes were stripped of every label, or what the code in that book actually means.
They finally know who he was. The reason he ended up dead on that beach is still unknown.
This is the Tamám Shud case. The Somerton Man.
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