At 6.30am on December 1, 1948, the body of an unknown man was discovered on Somerton Park beach, beginning one of Australia’s longest-running and thus-far insoluble mysteries.
As the exhumation of the body of the still-unknown “Somerton Man” begins, it will mark a new stage in the ongoing process of investigating and unravelling the mysteries, conspiracies and suspicions around the body.
From the beginning, the body posed a mystery. He had been found lying in the sand, with his head resting against the beach seawall, and his legs crossed. In his pockets he had an unused train ticket to Henley Beach, a bus ticket from the city, a tin comb, chewing gum, cigarettes and matches.
But there was no identification, and all the labels on his clothes had been removed.
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