Charlie Webb here is supposed to be more than two inches taller than his brother, Roy Webb … But he isn’t.
... and is Richard the real Charlie?
Dec 5
... and is Richard the real Charlie?
Russel Street detectives believe the unknown man whose body was found on Somerton Beach, Adelaide on December 1 was well-known in Melbourne baccarat circles.
How involved was Charlie Webb with the older criminals who were part and parcel of his family?
Meet Squizzy Taylor, a thoroughly bad man.
“For instance, the fingers of the dead man were heavily nicotined and yet, although there was half a packet of cigarettes in one of his pockets, he didn’t have a match on him.
ABC’s Australia Story has just settled the mystery, everything is bedded down: Webb was the Somerton Man. We have his family, the photos, the whole story. A tragic man lost and alone, a dead stranger found on the Adelaide shore.
Everything in place. A lonely suicide far from his family and friends,
Derek Abbott finally triumphant, his wife less so, the South Australian Police in the wings and awaiting the result of their own DNA investigation, slivers of doubt weakening the strength of some of us who think the mystery has yet to be fully resolved.
Because there are questions …
Like where he died and who carried him from there to the beach, who planted a box of matches on his body to support the finding of a part-smoked cigarette wedged under his chin, what poisoned him, whether there was a relationship between Webb, the man seen lying by the steps the previous evening and the fellow Olive Neill saw looking down on him for an inordinate length of time .. add to that the fact that the police investigation appeared to be inexplicably delayed until the inquest was adjourned and most importantly, when and how did Jessica meet Charles Webb and under what circumstances.
It ain’t over until it’s over.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/my-name-is-charles-somerton-man-mystery/101680520
Fitting Charles Webb into all this isn’t too hard.
And was it in response to an ad placed in the Advertiser three days before he was found dead?
This bloodstain casts a new and peculiar light on the circumstances surrounding the death of Charles Webb as there was no corresponding wound found on his body.
(Plus a measured response to Gordon Cramer's explanation of the origin of the bloodstain.)
And we find out what pocket had the tickets and dispel all the silliness of Webb having a ‘secret’ pocket sown into his trousers.
This is where we ascend into the universe of speculation again.
X3239 was the Melbourne phone number for a physical culture instructress in Brighton Vic. .. and as if there aren't enough coincidences in this case, read about seeing a muscular male figure going through athletic gyrations on the beach at Glenelg on a Sunday morning.
She seemed like someone who was running away from something.
Jessica Harkness, who had changed her name to Thomson some years before marrying Prosper in 1950 told the police she had married him in Melbourne before arriving in Adelaide in early 1947. There is the possibility she told Carl Webb the same lie and he was able to find her name, address and phone number in the Adelaide directory when he arrived in Adelaide in 1948 and rather than commit her phone number to memory he wrote it down on the back of his copy of the Rubaiyat. Then he came visiting.
It could have been made a lot easier .....
Lobotomy anyone? Or as Dorothy Parker famously said .. “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Dorothy Webb's Affidavit makes for very ugly reading in that it describes in detail the atrocious behaviour of Carl Webb, her violent and suicidal husband who was once known as The Somerton Man.
Why did Cleland want to examine Webb’s brain? We have an answer.