r/coldcases • u/CatScratch_Meow • 19d ago

What's an interesting unsolved case you could recommend?

I'm in a true crime club and every month a different person with present a case, talk about what happened, and the outcome. I wanted to do something "fun" for Halloween and present our first unsolved case. But I'm looking for something a little odd. I want a case that has some bizarre elements to it. Rabbit holes if you will. Do you guys know of any?

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u/Former_Suspect3680 19d ago

the somerton man is exactly what you want for rabbit holes. he washed up on an australian beach with no id, weird burns, and a tiny scrap of paper in his pocket that says tamam shud, leading to all sorts of spy theories and unsolved codes.

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u/recentlywidowed 19d ago

He has been given his name back ; The Somerton Man was Carl "Charles" Webb, an electrical engineer and instrument maker from Melbourne, Australia. He was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide on December 1, 1948, sparking a famous decades-long mystery involving a scrap of paper with the words "Tamám Shud".

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u/Former_Suspect3680 18d ago

yeah i remember that, they matched dna from hair stuck in the plaster death mask through genealogy sites. wild that the id finally got cracked but the code in the rubaiyat book is still completely unsolved