Who killed Carl Webb?
... and why?
Jan 21
That’s got to be the key question …
There is still some unfinished business ..
"I'm not sure we'll ever be absolutely certain (Carl Webb is the Somerton Man)" Dr. Xanthe Mallett.
We have a new development .. Two Webbs in the Adelaide morgue at the same time.
Dec 26
Though it would be nice to tidy them up.
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.
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.
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.