ON A warm summer's night in 1948, witnesses saw a well-dressed man lying on the beach in Somerton, near Adelaide, South Australia. By 6.30 the next morning, the man had not moved. He was dead.
An autopsy revealed organ damage consistent with poisoning, but no foreign substances in his body. He carried no identification. Fingerprint and dental-record searches came back with nothing. His clothes had no labels and were heavy for a night so balmy, suggesting he was not a local.
Thus was born the legend of the Somerton Man.
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