Carl Webb, Jessica Thomson, detectives and the coroner — not a gallery of uncharged Cold War agents.
The dead man is the file. The living paper is a nurse, a detective, a coroner and later scientists.
Spy names from later television are omitted unless they sit in dated official paper.
2022 identification candidate
Born 1905 in Footscray, Melbourne; an instrument maker married to Dorothy Robertson. Named by Abbott and Fitzpatrick from DNA. Not a 1949 inquest finding. If the name holds, it still does not explain the death.
Nurse; “Jestyn”
The telephone number in the Glenelg Rubaiyat led police to her. She said she did not know the man. Detectives noted distress when she saw the bust. She was not charged.
Detective sergeant, SA Police
The officer English readers most often meet in the 1948–49 investigation. His file is the police half of the public record.
City coroner, Adelaide
Presided over the 1949 inquest that could not name the man or a certain cause of death. His caution is the legal centre of the old file.
Pathologist
Gave medical evidence that left poison suspected and unidentified. He was a cousin of the coroner; the inquest paper treats him as an expert, not as a plot.
University of Adelaide researcher
The most public later advocate of DNA identification. With Colleen Fitzpatrick he announced Carl Webb in 2022. That announcement is historiography and science communication, not a completed criminal verdict.
Officers and a coroner left paper. A late DNA claim left a name that still has no cause of death.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.