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Breakthrough for the mystery of “The Gentleman” 28 years after the discovery – VG


OUTLINED: The researchers have tried to outline what they imagine “The Gentleman” might have looked like.

30 years ago, German police found a murdered man in the North Sea, who has been nicknamed “The Gentleman”. Now the mystery of who he was may be solved.

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“The Gentleman” was found off the German coast in the North Sea by the police from the German archipelago of Heligoland.

The man was found underwater with heavy cast iron – which is usually used by shoemakers to shape shoes – on his legs, writes The Guardian.

These are so heavy that they probably caused him to sink, writes the newspaper. The police have recently released the information about the cast iron.

He was given the nickname “The Gentleman” by the police investigators because he was so well dressed.

Wool tie and dress shirt

He wore a woolen tie, shoes from England, French-tailored trousers and a long-sleeved blue dress shirt.

According to The Guardian could the man’s tie with green, yellow and blue stripes indicate that he belonged to a particular organization.

It is not known which organization is involved.

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Closer to a solution

The case has baffled German police since its discovery, and now the mystery seems to have come somewhat closer to a solution.

With the help of criminologists and forensic pathologists from Murdoch University in Perth, Australian researchers are approaching the answer to who the man was.

They claim to have found out that the man spent a large part of his life in Australia, with the help of new tests. They must have found that out using isotope analyzes of the body.

Elements can appear in different variants, and these different variants are called isotopes of the element.

Differences in climate, soil and human activity in different parts of the world affect, among other things, the isotopic composition of food, water and dust.

It can be reflected in the isotopic composition of human tissue – and thus say something about where a person comes from.

Investigators from the 90s determined that he was between 45 and 50 years old.

– Incredible experience

One of the directors of Murdoch University, which tries to solve such mysteries, Brandan Chapman, says that the discovery was an “incredible experience”, according to The Guardian.

– What are the chances that such a small collection of universities working on this case would be from the same country that this man came from, says Chapman.

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