Unidentified and Mostly Harmless

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

While hiking in Big Cypress National Preserve, two friends stumbled upon an emaciated man's remains in a tent along the trail. The man had no identification, no cell phone, no bank cards and didn't come up in any of the police's databases.

After releasing a composite sketch of the man, a handful of fellow hikers, hostel proprietors and trail angels came forward saying they met this man along his journey from NY to FL. They knew stories about him and even had photos of him, but they only knew him as "Denim" or "Mostly Harmless" - his trail names.

It seemed like no one knew his true identity and that was they way he wanted it.

It's been 2 years since Mostly Harmless's remains were found in July 2017 and he has yet to be identified. The Collier County Sheriff's Office hasn't given up and is pursuing genealogy testing in hopes to locate a relative. But, if Mostly Harmless went to such great lengths to conceal his identity, do we have the right to identify him?

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0:00.0	You're going to go. What's up, up,
0:17.0	up guys, welcome to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast
0:20.0	with Stephanie Olivia, and we have a special guest today all the way from Australia
0:26.2	Kendall if you're in her group you know her and we're here we made it past the end of the world, according to Laurie Valo, who said the world was going to end on the 22nd with Jesus's second coming, but looks like we all made it through okay. I 20-20 sucks but we're still here.
0:44.8	I read a comment that said what Lori and Chad did on the day and they said they just
0:49.6	kept it themselves and read the scriptures and which you know I would have loved to have seen it even just for a little bit I would have loved to watch it.
0:56.7	I need like a comment from them on like so the world didn't end. I found a quote about what Chad actually thought was going to happen. Do you want me to read it out?
1:05.0	Yeah. It says he claimed to have had visions of two earthquakes,
1:09.0	he did Utah as a sign of the impending judgment day.
1:12.0	The first one is moderate and disrupts life for a few weeks. Many
1:15.6	older brick buildings crumble and roads suffer damage but repairs are made quickly.
1:19.7	Who's repairing roads in the end of the world? And then I saw a quote from Kay Woodcock, who's Charles's sister.
1:27.0	It says,
1:28.0	To tell Laurie is a chosen one that she's now a god and it's now up to her vet 144,000. I think it's July 22. I don't know what's going to happen on July 23. Nothing happened.
1:39.4	Spoiler, nothing happened. He was a good woman but he was a liar. Just for reference it's
1:47.7	actually July 25th today in the United States so we're pretty much in the clear, like the world's not ending,
1:53.8	we're a few days past it, think we're good to go. No matter what time zone you're in, it's
1:57.2	not July 22 anymore anyway. So like I said, we have Kendall with us today, which is very exciting.
2:04.4	She has been wanting to come on and we thought that this would be the perfect episode to talk about.
2:10.1	I'd be lurking around, listening to you guys on repeat. I've been very excited to get amongst it,
2:16.4	particularly for this one. Thank you for inviting me on. Today we're going to talk about
2:20.4	mostly harmless. That is the person's name for anyone who hasn't heard the story. He goes by mostly harmless and denim. It's the story of an unidentified person that they found dead in July 2018 and still haven't identified him to this day,
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