Derek Abbott claims SA Police about to present their findings to the coroner
“The man who claims he solved the identity of the Somerton Man through DNA matches says SA Police has told him it is close to finishing its report for the coroner to officially put the 78-year mystery to rest.
Professor Derek Abbott said he was “99.99 per cent sure” the body found on Adelaide’s Somerton Beach on December 1, 1948, was Carl “Charles” Webb.
But SA Police is yet to present its findings to the coroner, five years after the man’s body was exhumed.
Professor Abbott said SA Police had told him this would happen in the next two weeks and the coroner was expected to present his findings by the end of the year.
“My understanding is it’s going to happen very soon, yes,” he said.”
ABC News (6 Jul 2026))
Below is the official site where the SA coroner will publish his findings – as at today there are 21 downloads.
The Somerton Man .. 
Thanks Dusty for the heads up.
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I am personally hoping that the long 5 year wait for Forensics SA to undertaken their rigorous and well documented DNA work will come to a Somerton Man identity that is not the same as the one put forward by the Professor… his credibility will be crushed and he will no longer have quotes attributed to him in every news article published about the SM case in the future.
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