He was wearing a wetsuit when police found him floating in a reservoir in Wales in October. No clothes or belongings were found on the coastline, and despite a seven-mile hike to a nearby bus stop, no cars or bikes were found nearby.
The postmortem exam found no match for DNA or fingerprints, but two police appeals seeking information about the man failed.
Now, more than four months after the body was found in Powys' Claerwen Reservoir, Dyfed Powys police have released an image of the wetsuit in the hopes that someone could solve the mystery of his identity.
The anonymous man was found on October 18th after a member of the public found his body in the water before 8:30am. It is estimated that his body may have been decomposed underwater for up to 12 weeks.
Postmortem examination confirmed that the body belongs to a man between 30 and 60 years old, about 6 feet tall.
DeAngela Ponting said he found out he was wearing a “Zone 3 Agile Wetsuit.” The wetsuit size is XL, indicating that the man is between 6 feet and 6 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 202-220 pounds and weighing 44-48 inches in chest.
Police are understood to have spoken to Interpol to try and verify the male identity, as the remote reservoir may be popular with tourists.
Ponting said: “We have conducted many inquiries, including checking records of missing people with other forces and working with law enforcement partners to make for local forensic inquiries.
“Unfortunately, these have not resulted in the identification of men.
“We are open to the situation and continue to work towards finding who he is, his family and what happened to him.”
She said that between July 2024 and October 18, 2024, police said that information issued by police “may be linked to a missing person in their life.” I said I wanted to hear from someone who thinks, “There's one.” .
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Police officers believe that the “very unusual” thing about his belongings or no evidence of transportation found, according to the BBC, is unlikely to have been a man walking to his wetsuit reservoir.
Local resident Rosemary Stowe told BBC Wales that most tourists have not passed the nearby Elan Valley visitor centre. “The people here are asking, did he get dumped there? But if he was dumped, why did he put him in a wetsuit?”
Alan Austin, who chairs a local rambling group and regularly walks the area, added that he has never “never” seen anyone swimming in the “very cold” waters of Clairewen Reservoir. I did.
“It can be very dangerous,” he said.
