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05 Sep 10 - 07:56 PM (#2980652) Subject: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike He thinks his name is Benjaman. He thinks his birthday is Aug 29 He may be from Indiana or Colorado. Here is his story from NPR radio. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129668438 He was found in Georgia, and has no idea how he got there or where he came from. He doesn't have a driver's license, does not know his social security number. If you know who might be missing him for the last 6 years, If you think you may know Benjaman, contact FBI Special Agent Bill Kirkconnell at 912-232-3716 or e-mail forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick at colleen@identifinders.com |
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06 Sep 10 - 02:41 AM (#2980763) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike he was found at burger king and was first given the name of B.K. so he became named Benjaman Kyle and he is for real..he has a facebook page and a wikipedia page... i hope people from indiana and colorado especially will take a look and see if they recognize him. As he has some memories of these places. |
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06 Sep 10 - 03:24 AM (#2980778) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Ebbie I see that this all began four years ago. I would hope that eventually he will click into place somewhere. |
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06 Sep 10 - 03:35 AM (#2980781) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 I've put your link on my Facebook page and asked others to put it on theirs too. I hope someone, somewhere, is able to help him. Thanks for putting the link on here. |
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06 Sep 10 - 10:24 AM (#2980922) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: GUEST,leeneia What does his accent tell us? Maybe he's Canadian. |
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06 Sep 10 - 10:37 AM (#2980929) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: bobad His accent sounds American to me, a Canadian. |
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06 Sep 10 - 10:47 AM (#2980939) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Uncle_DaveO His hope that his memory will return is pretty well founded. Amnesia statistics show that a large portion of amnesics eventually find their memories again. But when? He's already well past the more typical time for ending of the amnesic state, but by no means in the extreme long duration. Dave Oesterreich |
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06 Sep 10 - 01:29 PM (#2981008) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike he has a facebook page and a wikipedia page. |
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06 Sep 10 - 02:27 PM (#2981033) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Alice Laurel, he wasn't named for Burger King. He says he knows his name is Benjaman with that unusual spelling and when the hospital said they needed his last name, he just thought of Kyle and gave them that for a surname. FBI checked criminal and military fingerprints in the USA and he doesn't match any of the millions in the database. Hope someone recognizes him. A. |
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06 Sep 10 - 03:12 PM (#2981058) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike they had an un-named person in the local system at the time he was picked up. John Dow is the name they give to unknown persons. That moniker was already in use so they called him B.K. Doe...standing for Burger King...then he remembered his name might be Benjaman. wikipedia: "Initially, he was known as BK because he was discovered on the premises of a Burger King. Since then, he has chosen to live under the name Benjaman Kyle and insists that his real first name is Benjaman" http://www.facebook.com/BenjamanKyle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129668438 "They were calling me 'BK Doe,' " he says. Burger King Doe. "The only thing I could think of that started with a 'K' was Kyle. So I just picked that as my last name. Benjaman Kyle." |
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06 Sep 10 - 04:17 PM (#2981098) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: katlaughing I forwarded his story to the tv station my Rog works for..maybe their news people will do a story. Can't hurt, that's for sure. |
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06 Sep 10 - 04:45 PM (#2981110) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Is this guy making a good thing out of his amnesia? This story has beer around for some time. |
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06 Sep 10 - 05:20 PM (#2981127) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Uncle_DaveO I Googled "Benjaman -Doe -Burger", thus eliminating any reference to this news story, and found a number of "Benjamans", both first and last names. I can well imagine a situation where either 1. He was formally named BenjamIN when born, and somehow picked up the -man spelling as a nickname in his youth OR 2. His family name is Benjaman, so spelled, but that he has been addressed enough by that family name that it stuck in whatever was left of his memory. I suspect that I was far from the first to think of Googling "Benjaman", so I don't suppose the first and last-name Benjamans whom I found are any surprise to the FBI and other searchers. Dave Oesterreich |
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06 Sep 10 - 07:22 PM (#2981211) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Ebbie Just thinking out loud here: I imagine they have tried him on whether he knows other languages; it appears that he is American - whether, North, Central or South - or we would have been told of it. His fingerprints don't match any in the FBI database - but only recently I discovered to my befuddlement that the results of having one's fingerprints taken as required by one's employment don't even go to the FBI or to any kind of national database. Makes no sense to me; I have fingerprints in three different places here in this town, in the school district and in Big Brothers, Big Sisters. From what I'm told, they don't send them on to anybody. I was picturing what would be the outcome if I went missing. Say that I woke up alone in New Jersey with no ID. Brought up as I was there is no photo of me anywhere before the age of 19 (except for one long distance one of me building a snowman at age 12). There are not many photos of me even as a grown person; it is not something I have ever pursued or cared for. So, how long would it take for me to be identified? The last 20 years I've been much more visible in my community in Alaska than I ever was in Oregon or Michigan or Virginia. I would not expect to be identified by anybody from those earlier states. Question: How widespread is the coverage of a missing person/found person? In Alaska, would there be coverage of a found person in New Jersey? |
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06 Sep 10 - 08:22 PM (#2981241) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Mrrzy Wow. I wonder if he's motivatedly forgotten something horrible, poor guy. |
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06 Sep 10 - 08:33 PM (#2981246) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Jim Dixon Why is it that people with amnesia forget who they are, but they never forget, say, how to speak English? |
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06 Sep 10 - 11:35 PM (#2981311) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Ebbie I don't think that is too surprising, Jim Dixon. Different areas of the brain. I have a friend who suffered a brain aneurysm 7 or 8 years ago. He remembers his previous life very well- he was a school teacher and taught shop and drafting, and if you had known him long enough ago he remembers you too. I was absurdly pleased to find that he remembered me. But if you ask him what he had for dinner tonight he not only doesn't know but he doesn't know if he had dinner.. |
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07 Sep 10 - 01:23 AM (#2981344) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: beeliner Funny this hasn't been on the network news shows (I wasn't aware of it until now) because it's a great 'human interest' story. |
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07 Sep 10 - 03:48 AM (#2981386) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike he has been on dr. phil t.v. and most recently on NPR radio I hope someone who hear about him remembers him and comes forward |
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07 Sep 10 - 02:36 PM (#2981712) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Q (Frank Staplin) The story was carried generally but most people have forgotten; the news services dredge it up again when gee whiz news is sparse. The BBC and Guardian are listed for this year, so coverage extended to UK. The story was generally carried in 2007. Article in Wikipedia with partial list of 2009-2010 reports appended. |
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07 Sep 10 - 05:25 PM (#2981818) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: Ebbie I'm surprised that no word has been given out as to where his spoken accent places him. I've taken classes in linguistics; a good linguist should be able to narrow the search considerably. |
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21 Oct 10 - 02:51 PM (#3012385) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike This article mentions some DNA information that has been uncovered. http://themountaineer.com/article/man-amnesia-seeks-information "He can sit in a restaurant and tell you why it is working well or what needs to be improved," she said. Fitzpatrick works for an organization called Identifinders International, located in Huntington Beach, California. Testing has shown that Benjamin's DNA is shared by people located in eastern Tennessee, north Georgia and the western parts of North Carolina and perhaps to families with the surname of Davidson or Powell. Through advanced DNA testing techniques, it has been discovered Benjaman likely has a connection to the region. _________________ Maybe someone should sing some Appalachian folk songs and see if he remembers them?? What cultural memories might be found with someone who has lived in "eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia and western North Carolina" ? |
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21 Oct 10 - 03:06 PM (#3012396) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike I hope these clues help lead to some info for him: A DNA test on Benjaman Kyle shows that his family might be from eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia or western North Carolina and that he may have links with the surnames of Davidson or Powell. |
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21 Oct 10 - 03:22 PM (#3012415) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: open mike There is one person who claims they know who he might be.. About 13 to 30 years ago there was a man named William Albert "Spike" Keathley. This man lived at addresses in Anderson, IN (on 43rd St., 21st St., Alhambra,...), Muncie, IN and New Castle, IN. He was a musician who could sing, play guitar, banjo, violin, trumpet, piano, harmonica and possibly more. He has copywritten music and lyrics for several songs. http://www.andersonfreepress.net/anderson-forums/anderson-news-forum/17836 Anderson is in Madison County Indiana so this may be a music thread after all.. won't someone please give that guy a banjo or guitar or other instrument and see if he is able to pick out a tune? |
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21 Oct 10 - 04:08 PM (#3012444) Subject: RE: BS: This man has amnesia-can you help him? From: GUEST,Grishka Who knows what's in those 'burgers ... |