THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT LINKS CARL WEBB....
....Below is a photograph of Carl Webb:
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| CARL WEBB |
The image above is of the man of whom Paul Lawson created the now famous plaster bust. By default, that means that this is a photograph of Carl Webb.
And the following photograph is the one taken by Jimmy Durham, Police photographer, on Thursday 2nd December 1948. It is of the man found on Somerton Beach, The Somerton Man:
And this next image shows them side by side, the Somerton Man on the left and Carl Webb on the right:
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| SOMERTON MAN CARL WEBB |
According to the announcement made by Professor Abbott last week the DNA match he made was of the man in image 2 on the right, with a Melbourne man known as Carl Webb. I have no reason to doubt that, there is no apparent evidence to the contrary.
The challenge though stems from the man on the left, image 1., this is the photograph we know to be the Somerton Man. We have no DNA sample taken at the time from this man because that hadn't been discovered, and, judging by his physical facial features, he does not bear a great resemblance to the man on the right, image 2, Carl Webb. You could make an argument about the ears but to me, they differ in placement and angle, if you look closely the ears are higher set and the left ear is set closer to the head on the Webb image. There is a slight incline on the SM image.
The ears as shown on the profiles of both SM and Webb below, appear to be precisely the same even though according to Paul Lawson, the ears on the man of whom he made the bust, were in a very bad condition to the extent he couldn't make a mold of them. Here's the ear comparison via the profile images:
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| CARL WEBB SOMERTON MAN |
It's quite possible that the ear on the Webb profile was superimposed on to an image that showed the ear to be in a state of decomposition, you can see where the image on the left had been 'touched up ' quite a lot but probably for the sake of presentation. For that reason, we may not be seeing the profile as it was in reality.
THE FINAL PROOF OF IDENTITY WILL NOT BE FROM DNA...
Another 'courageous' statement. What you have seen here casts sufficient doubt on the claimed identity of the Somerton Man and there is a need if we are to be totally certain, to prove that the man in image 2 is the same man as shown in image 1. There is no DNA match available for that. But there is a way.
THE EVIDENCE FROM DR. DWYER
Those familiar with the case will know that it was Dr. Dwyer who performed the autopsy on the body of the Somerton Man and it was he who had the foresight to take a Dental chart of the man's teeth. It showed that there were 18 teeth missing. Quite a few, enough to make chewing difficult you would think, and perhaps that is why only soft food, potato, was found in the contents of the man's stomach. In fact, because of a difficulty in chewing, our man may have been mostly vegetarian.
It is the Dental chart alone that can either prove or disprove that the Somerton Man is or is not Carl Webb...
Here's the actual chart:
You can see that Dr.Dwyer has told us that the numbered teeth are the missing teeth. Back, chewing teeth, are mostly missing as are the upper two front incisors. 18 missing teeth in total, Dr. Dwyer saw no evidence of a dental plate being used.
The Police examination must provide the information, more than that, it must provide the physical evidence by way of showing the actual skull and teeth structure of the body currently being examined.
If they cannot do that then there is no proof that Carl Webb is the Somerton Man.
To add a further complication, when I interviewed Paul Lawson, he was adamant that when he was asked by the Coroner to retrieve the skull of the man, he was shocked to find on removing the skin from the head, that the sewing up of the skin had been done very professionally, expertly. On inspecting the skull he found that it had been thoroughly cleaned, pristine was a word he used. There was no sign of any organic material. The skull had to have been removed in order to do that.
That leaves the possibility that the skull may have been removed and replaced. That being the case, then no one will be able to match the dental chart of the man exhumed with that of the one taken by Dr. Dwyer.
100% Gordon. But what if they extracted the teeth? Easy to do, and they had six months to do it. I am confident though that the truth will eventually come out. It will have to.....
ReplyDeleteTruth is stranger than fiction so anything is possible I suppose. But you have to bear in mind that his mouth would have been glued shut. So I would say unlikely.
ReplyDeleteThe pre burial photograph in this post is the image of the man as he appeared to Paul Lawson when he made the plaster bust. It bears little resemblance to the photographs taken just after the autopsy, That could be in part due to deterioration whilst in the freezer however there are some features that stand out and at the very least should be seriously questioned. In particular the image marked number 2, has a very square structure, that is not the case of the autopsy pics.
ReplyDeleteThe hairs that were used by Professor Abbott to identify the Somerton Man came from that same plaster bust. Mr. Lawson used the initial photograph taken just after the autopsy to create the features of the face on the bust. Just for the record, the original suggestion that the hairs on the bust could be used to extract DNA, came from me whilst I was a member of the original Facebook group.
In a recent interview, ex Det Sgt Gerry Feltus who is rightly recognised as the most knowledgeable person on the Somerton Man case, said words in relation to the identification of the Somerton Man, along the lines of:
ReplyDelete'I know what I know and I know what I believe and I am awaiting the results of the Policeexamination of the body'.
I totally agree with that statement. Who knows what the next real breakthrough will bring?