On a quiet summer morning in Australia, the body of an unidentified man was discovered resting against a seawall on Somerton Beach. He carried no identification, showed no obvious signs of violence, and seemed to have vanished into history without a name. What began as an ordinary death investigation soon evolved into one of the world's most enduring mysteries.
This Special Episode follows the complete investigation, from the discovery of the unidentified man and the famous Tamam Shud paper to the hidden code, the mysterious telephone number, Cold War speculation, forensic science, and the modern DNA research that transformed the case while leaving important questions unanswered.
Did modern science finally solve the mystery, or did it simply replace one unanswered question with another?