The Unknown Person
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In April of 2013, following an investigation into a "black money" scam, Toronto Police Services arrested 32-year-old Herman Emmanuel Fankem, a French citizen that had overstayed his visitor's visa and supposedly gotten caught up in an organized crime ring. However, as police began to dive into this man's backstory, they discovered that his passport was a total forgery.
In the years since, this man has refused to divulge any information about himself to authorities, and appears to be fully uncooperative - if not combative. For that reason, his identity continues to remain a total mystery...
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| 0:00.0 | On September 20th, 2006, an African-American man was arrested at a homeless shelter |
| 0:16.8 | in Toronto, Canada. |
| 0:18.8 | This man was found with roughly $10 worth of cocaine in his possession, which would |
| 0:23.7 | have been a rather minor drug offense, if he had been a Canadian citizen. |
| 0:29.0 | Studies would quickly learn that this was no simple drug offense, because this man seemed |
| 0:33.6 | to be a foreign national. |
| 0:35.6 | This man's American passport said that he was Andrea Drum Walker, a man born on January |
| 0:41.0 | 22nd, 1973 in Wilmington, Delaware. |
| 0:45.4 | A search of customs records revealed that he had entered Canada about a year prior, having |
| 0:50.6 | arrived on an Amtrak train from New York in April of 2005. |
| 0:55.3 | While he was only supposed to have stayed in Canada for nine days, he had clearly exceeded |
| 1:00.2 | that time frame with his arrest 17 months later. |
| 1:04.2 | Authorities would later learn that he had been staying at a Salvation Army homeless shelter |
| 1:08.4 | in Toronto until his arrest in September of 2006, and had been loosely involved with several |
| 1:14.5 | religious groups in the area. |
| 1:17.2 | After his arrest, this man, going by the alias of Andrea Walker, met with his lawyer |
| 1:23.1 | who encouraged him to plead guilty and accept a short stint in prison before being deported |
| 1:28.1 | back to the US. |
| 1:30.0 | He would follow up on his lawyer's advice and do just that, pleading guilty to drug |
| 1:35.2 | possession. |
| 1:36.4 | But this is where things became a bit strange. |
| 1:39.8 | An examination of the man's passport said that this man was in his early 30s at the time |
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