"A collaboration between local police, FBI, and National Missing and Unidentified Persons System helped find the military vet.
A nearly 20-year-old mystery has finally been answered as authorities in Florida have been able to identify a man who drowned in the Gulf of Mexico in 2002 through his fingerprints, Naples Daily News reported.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office announced Monday they have identified the man as Edward Lorenz Richard of Spencer, Mass. He was 49.
Richard was found floating near the shore on May 3, 2002, and since then detectives have worked to try and find out his identity.
Richard’s body had no forms of identification when it was discovered, the cause of death was not determined, and fingerprints, DNA, dental information and other databases turned up no leads, Mass Live reported."

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