Melt71
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I wonder how long he's been in the US? He didn't have any German or US based identification, so even if he had the money and wanted to go home, no passport. Although he must've had one to come over in the first place.
He really had no bag of belongings or any papers etc at all? Just what he was wearing?!?
And to die in a shed in winter in Virginia, must be cold and lonely.
RIP.
I think this entirely possible. I work overseas and one of my tasks is assisting distressed nationals of my country. In a case many years ago, my office received a call from a medical charity. A man who lived in a homeless community under a bridge for many years had told a volunteer that he was a citizen of my country and gave them a name. Lo and behold he was indeed a man who had gone missing from our country almost 30 years earlier. Thankfully he told someone while he was alive as he had nothing to prove who he was, or his nationality.
In a second case a man who lived in a small Asian village for many years died in a homemade shack with no identifying documents and was buried in an unmarked grave. His neighbours contacted us - he liked to drink with them and had spoken of a son in a small town - and the neighbours remembered the rather distinctive names of both. With some detective work we were able to find the son and identify the father.