Short0:26Brookfield (family home), Brisbane · 2011The Somerton Man (Tamám Shud case) — the case in brief
COLDSomerton Park beach, Adelaide, South Australia0:36
An unidentified man was found dead on an Adelaide beach in 1948, in a case that remains officially unresolved despite a 2022 genetic-genealogy identification claim.
Narrated from the published, cited case file. The sources are on the case page. How we make these videos.
Watch the full case file · 1:34What the video says
A scrap reading TAMAM SHUD was sewn into the man's fob pocket An unidentified man was found dead on an Adelaide beach in 1948 in a case that remains officially unresolved despite a 2022 genetic genealogy identification claim The body of an unidentified man was found on Somerton Park Beach near Adelaide South Australia The body is embalmed after police are unable to establish an identity The case remains unsolved and has gone cold The full case file is on Casepin
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