The Story of Taman Shud
True Crime
14 Episodes
On the morning of December 1, 1948, a well-dressed man was found dead on Somerton Beach outside Adelaide. He had no identification. The tags had been cut from his clothing. In a hidden pocket of his trousers, six months later, a pathologist would find a rolled-up scrap of paper carrying two Persian words: 'Tamám Shud' — 'it is ended.' For seventy-four years the world knew him only as the Somerton Man. Every decade produced a new theory. A Cold War spy. A jilted lover. A poisoning by an unknown chemistry. In July 2022, an Australian physicist and an American genealogist announced they had found his name. The name that had been missing for the entire lifetime of nuclear-age Australia was Carl Webb.
The Story of Taman Shud
True Crime
14 Episodes
On the morning of December 1, 1948, a well-dressed man was found dead on Somerton Beach outside Adelaide. He had no identification. The tags had been cut from his clothing. In a hidden pocket of his trousers, six months later, a pathologist would find a rolled-up scrap of paper carrying two Persian words: 'Tamám Shud' — 'it is ended.' For seventy-four years the world knew him only as the Somerton Man. Every decade produced a new theory. A Cold War spy. A jilted lover. A poisoning by an unknown chemistry. In July 2022, an Australian physicist and an American genealogist announced they had found his name. The name that had been missing for the entire lifetime of nuclear-age Australia was Carl Webb.