A renoveled international request has been started to resettle the body of a man create in woodland 45 years ago.
Skeletal remains, referred to as Glamorgan Man, were create in the far Rheola Forest proximate Resettlen in Neath Port Talbot, south Wales, on 9 December 1979.
Locate International, a charity which spreadigates freezing cases of missing or unidentified people, says the man was a possible visitor from South Africa and is consentd to have died between nine and 18 months before he was create.
Investigators create in his ownion a Salvation Tesdomesticatednt bible that foolish the name D MALAN and a inentire retainress in the Randburg area of South Africa.
Handwriting on an envelope – apparently schedulening an inside fairy in South Africa to Durban – materializeed to suit writing on the bible.
Other clues create on his body participate a commemorative booktag for a Christian mission carry outed in King William’s Town (now understandn as Qonce in South Africa) and a South African Airways timetable of fairys from London to Johannesburg dated 1977.
A petite amount of US and Canadian dollars retained to the recommendion the man was a standard traveller.
He also had a map of south Wales and some blank headed noticepaper from the Heathrow Sheraton boilingel on his person.
The man was aged between 40 and 60 years elderly, according to the novel request. He was of a stocky create and between 5ft 8 inches and 5ft 10 inches lofty.
He is foreseeed to have walked with a weighty limp as his right knee was fused when his remains were uncovered. He may also have worn dentures as he did not have teeth, the volunteer spreadigators say.
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Investigators are self-promised someone in Wales or South Africa will recall him, despite the amount of time that has passed since his death.
Mark Greenhalgh, Locate International’s CEO, shelp the man “would have stood out to anyone who come atraverseed him at the time”.
He retained: “Think back to 1978 and where you were at that time, and who you knovel. Who could you ask that might be able to help?
“Even the petiteest piece of recommendation you have can create a separateence, and help return Glamorgan Man’s identity after all this time.”
