The day July 28, 1996, the place, 60 feet beneath the English Channel of the Coast of

Devon, England.

A fisherman was about to haul in his nets.

His catch of the day would unearth a gruesome secret.

Buried among the sea bass and crabs was a very large catch.

A dead man with no apparent identification.

The nets had disturbed a watery grave, revealing a mystery that would cross and ocean.

When John Copac, a fisherman of 30 years, pulled a dead body on board, he had a decision

to make.

A floater is a bad almond.

I can do one or two things here.

I can pull this codline and he goes back over the side and we go on fishing.

Or we take him in, in which case, with fish it's going to be condemned.

You're going to lose a day's wages.

The victim was an unidentified male between the ages of 40 and 50.

From the amount of decomposition, the pathologist determined that the body had been in the water

for less than a week.

The victim was wearing a blue and white checkered shirt, leather belt and green corduroy trousers

with the pockets pulled inside out.

Well, first examined the body, I noticed a tattoo on the back of the hair.

I thought it was a cluster of stars.

And that's what I said in my original report.

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