Ontario Man Recollects His Name After Missing For 30 Years

A man, who went missing nearly three decades ago, has now been found. The find was credited to a memory recall, which had escaped him all these years.

According to NBC News, the man Edgar Latulip was 21 when he went missing from Kitchener, Ontario in 1986. A head injury caused him to forget his identity and he went missing. However, in January this year after recollecting his name, he told a social worker who he was. Things soon fell in place and a DNA test confirmed his identity. He was found in St. Catharines, Ontario, just about 80 miles from his home.

Before he went missing, Latulip was in a hospital, reports The Washington Post. He walked out of the facility and went missing. His mother told the police he had development delays and a 12-year-old's mind.

His find has left both the family and the cops who did not give up on him, elated.

"It's the only case, that I know of, where we've been able to find someone who has been missing for this period of time," Det. Const. Duane Gingerich, of the Waterloo Regional Police, said.

Latulip's mother was ecstatic on learning about her son. She said she had taken him for dead after these years. Several reports claimed he had assumed another identity and name but details of his life were not revealed.