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Who killed Carl Webb?

... and why?

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Meet All The Webbs – or how many is too many coincidences?

It’s almost spacey!

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Was Prosper strong enough to carry a man weighing about 78 kgs?

That’s got to be the key question …

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“The identification of the Somerton Man will ultimately be determined by the coroner.”

There is still some unfinished business ..

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“My concern is that we may never be able to categorically say that we know this person’s identity.”

"I'm not sure we'll ever be absolutely certain (Carl Webb is the Somerton Man)" Dr. Xanthe Mallett.

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Gordon Cramer and The Redlegged George Webb.

We have a new development .. Two Webbs in the Adelaide morgue at the same time.

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The 2022 Headline Of The Year – Somerton Man Case Solved!!!

But wait ....

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Small matters of little concern in the grand scheme of things…

Though it would be nice to tidy them up.

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Contact: Stewart Webb.

Correspondence with Stuart Webb ..

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X3239 – All questions and no answers

If Carl Webb arrived in Adelaide from either Broken Hill or Melbourne to see either Prosper or Jessica Thomson he could only have learnt of their phone number prior to leaving.

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The Bats in Dome’s Attic

.. and how they responded to a simple question.

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Derek, Nick, Gordon and a couple of real Charlies.

What a tangled Webb we weave ..

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Charlie Webb’s World

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.

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Carl Webb, the lookout.

A useful hand when it came to chucking out a bad loser.

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Guess who’s coming to dinner? Gangsters at the Webb’s dinner table.

How involved was Charlie Webb with the older criminals who were part and parcel of his family?

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The Criminal Connection: Roy Webb’s father-in-law was an associate of one of Australia’s most notorious criminals.

Meet Squizzy Taylor, a thoroughly bad man.

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“He didn’t have a match on him.” PC Moss

“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.

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All you need to know about barbiturates and who used it to commit suicide.

Fitting Charles Webb into all this isn’t too hard.

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Did Carl Webb come calling at 90a Moseley Street?

And was it in response to an ad placed in the Advertiser three days before he was found dead?

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The Bloodstained Shirt .. Part 2

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.)

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What’s this? Bloodstains on the neck of Webb’s shirt and a MUTILATED copy of the Rubaiyat found in the back of a UTILITY TRUCK?

And we find out what pocket had the tickets and dispel all the silliness of Webb having a ‘secret’ pocket sown into his trousers.

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Charles Carl Webb – Man Of Many Faces

Just get out while you’ve got your life to do so.

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Where to now with Jessica Harkness’ involvement?

This is where we ascend into the universe of speculation again.

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Carl Webb’s ‘Beautiful Shape.’ How come?

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.

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Carl Webb .. The Man Who Disappeared.

Where was Webb for the last two years of his life?

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