Twenty-eight years after German police found the brutalised body of 'The Gentleman' in the North Sea, Murdoch University students are unravelling the mystery around his identity.
The discovery marks the last day of National Missing Persons Week, which aims to profile and raise awareness about long-term missing persons in Australia.
Differences in climate, soil and human activity across the globe change the isotopic compositions of food, water and even dust — reflected in the isotopic compositions of human tissue.Researchers from overseas universities were also able to get a DNA profile of the man. "What are the chances that from this small collection of universities working on this case, one would be from the country where the man originated?" he said."Without that they didn't know where to direct their inquires and in fact they were probably looking mostly around Europe because that's obviously where he went missing," he said.
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