A renowned United States forensic genealogist who lent her expertise to the Somerton Man mystery says the investigation was like doing a 'sudoku puzzle'.
A renowned United States forensic genealogist who lent her expertise to the Somerton Man mystery says the investigation was like doing a "sudoku puzzle".The case has been a mystery since a man's body was found on Somerton Beach in 1948Colleen Fitzpatrick, a pioneer who has worked on numerous "John and Jane Doe" cases in the US, said she first heard of the Somerton Man in 2013, and met up with Adelaide University researcher Derek Abbott in 2014.
"You don't know who these people are, but what you can do is, you keep trying to find out how they're related to each other and you move them around like the sudoku puzzle." "We found a hit, we found a very distant cousin, actually in Victoria who was the best match of all of them," he said. Professor Abbott said the team then found a relative on Webb's maternal side to further confirm their findings and it was a "beautiful match".Professor Abbott said the likelihood of the man's identity being Charles Webb was "99.99" per cent.
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