A South Australian academic’s claims to have identified “Somerton man” as a 43-year-old electrical engineer from Melbourne could finally provide answers in one of Australia’s most infamous cold cases.
For 73 years, the identity of a well-dressed man found slumped by a sea wall of Somerton beach, south of Adelaide, in 1948 has been a mystery – leaving room for theories featuring jilted lovers and cold war spies.
