Mystery man dubbed ‘The Gentleman’ found in North Sea may have spent most of his life in Australia

Breakthrough in the decades-old cold case comes after scientists conducted an isotope ratio analysis of the man's bones

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Perth scientists have breathed life into a decades-old German mystery of an unknown man's body found floating in the North Sea, by using a new forensic technique that revealed he may have spent most of his life in Australia.

The man, dubbed The Gentleman" by investigators in 1994 after his body was found by police off the coast of the Helgoland, a German archipelago, was weighed down by cast iron cobbler's feet.

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