Police ask for public’s help in 10-year-old John Doe case

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man found on October 8, 2004 in a wooded area across the street from the Tim Hortons near the Stanfield International Airport.

Little is known about him, but police describe him as a black man between 18 and 25 years old, about 5’11” tall, 160 pounds, and with medium length dreadlock-style hair.

RCMP forensic artist Michel Fournier created the drawings of the man by reconstructing his skull. He’s done over 20 of these reconstructions and drawings in 26 years, and they’re never exact. He calls them “approximations.”

“Hopefully the approximation will trigger something in somebody’s mind, and they will call the police,” he said.

The police tried this in 2006 as well, holding a press conference and distributing images of the man. They received no major leads that time around. Fournier says the images have changed since then.

“The structure is the same. The face is just a little bit thinner, and the cheeks aren’t as full as the image in 2006,” he said.

Detective Const. Michael Cheeseman says foul play is not suspected, but without more information he can’t speculate on how the man died. It’s thought the man could’ve been from out of the country, and was in Halifax looking for seasonal work in the Annapolis Valley as a migrant worker. He says the images of the man will be spread out across the country to find out if he’s a Canadian citizen, and his information has been added to Interpol’s missing persons database to see if he was from elsewhere.

Cheeseman says police just want to give the man his last rites.

“The gentleman deserves a proper notification to his family members and a proper goodbye,” he said.

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