Somerton Man: Decoding historic body-on-the-beach mystery (updated) | Australian Story
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 Published On Sep 6, 2021

When the body of a well-dressed man was found on Adelaide's Somerton Beach in 1948, police assumed that somebody would soon come forward to identify him. But nobody did. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3nO2CDi

More than 70 years later, the mysterious case of the "Somerton Man", as he became known, regularly makes the lists of Australia’s most baffling unsolved cases.

Was he murdered? Was he a Russian spy? Was it suicide? Or was he the victim of a love triangle?

Now, in an update to our first program in 2019, Somerton Man’s remains have been exhumed from an Adelaide cemetery in the hope that the mysteries behind this enduring cold case might finally be revealed.

You can watch the original Australian Story episode here: https://bit.ly/2YsqZfv

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