It was June 17 last year that two canoeists on the Fyrisån in Uppsala found a dead man along the shore. Since the police could not identify the man, they then went out with descriptions and asked for tips from the public.
– He misses everything. No wallet, phone, tattoo or jewelry so he has been unidentified for a long time. We have therefore opened a murder investigation, alternatively homicide in order to be able to use some tools and take this further, said Magnus Jansson Klarin press spokesperson for the Midsummer Police Region.
Now reporting Uppsala New Newspaper that the police in Uppsala received a phone call on October 23 that helped them reveal the dead man’s identity. The call came from Australia and it was relatives of a man who disappeared when he was going to visit a friend in Uppsala during the summer who had become worried.
Haven’t heard from the man since the Uppsala trip
The relatives in Australia had not been in contact with the 32-year-old man since the Uppsala trip and thus became worried. When the police in Uppsala found out about this, they suspected that the missing man was the man who had been found in Fyrisån during the summer, who had then been estimated to be in his 40s.
Through a fingerprint the man had left when he applied for a visa in Belgium, the man could then be identified. However, the cause of death is still unknown and neither the police nor the relatives know who he was going to visit in Uppsala or where he lived during his stay.
– He may have died of drowning, but you cannot say for sure that it is so. The body has received damage from tumbling around in the river, but there are no other injuries that indicate that he was subjected to violence, says preliminary investigation leader Johan Segerholm to the newspaper.
The man’s relatives in Australia are informed that it was he who was found dead in the river this summer.