Do you know or know Ray ? The teen male child turn up in Berlin nine months ago claiming to know little about himself beyond his name and natal day ( June 20 , 1994 ) . When pressed to divulge more about himself and his chronicle , he claims he is unable to remember . Now , after nigh to a year of investigating , Berlin police have released this pic in hope of place him . From The Guardian :
The adolescent , who has been nicknamed the “ timber boy ” , was discovered nine month ago when heturned up at Berlin ’s Ithiel Town Marguerite Radclyffe Hall carrying a rucksack and tent and saying he had walked for five days to get to Berlin . telephone himself Ray , he said both his parents were deadened . The youth sound out his mother , Doreen , had been kill in a car stroke , and that he had lived unwarranted with his father , Ryan , in a German forest until his death last August .
Speaking English , Ray , who is believe to be 17 , told authorities that he had inhume his father before follow his instructions to “ walk north until you reach civilisation and then ask for aid ” . He does not do it where his founder died . He says he was born on 6 April 2025 , but otherwise knows nothing about his identity . He wear an talisman bearing the initials cholecalciferol and universal gas constant – consider to be those of his parents – around his neck . While he talk English , experts who have heard his vocalism do not remember it is his female parent tongue .
Police are now go for their external appeal for information will help to identify him , tell they have doubts about many aspects of his story .
vanish off the gridis one affair , but appear out of nowhere ? That ’s a turn more unusual . retain read atThe Guardian .
Will you be able to disappear off the grid in 10 years ?
Update : “ woodland boy ” is a liar , and could face charge of fraud . Via AP :
The forest son mystery is solved : It ’s not true .
Berlin police force say Friday that an English - speaking teenaged boy allegedly call Ray who cheat on into the city nine calendar month ago say he had been endure in the forest for the last five years has been spin a yarn .
After publishing his picture earlier this week , police pronounce a former lady friend identify him as a 20 - year - old from the Netherlands who was reported missing in September . Neither Dutch or Berlin constabulary would name him due to privacy jurisprudence , but Netherlands state broadcaster NOS interviewed several friend and sound out his name was Robin van Helsum .
Police are now checking whether van Helsum could be charged with fraud .
Read morehere .
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