There is an excellent article is the October 2, 2009 edition of the Orange County Register about Colleen Fitzpatrick and one of her projects. Following is a teaser:
Finding people is her thing.
Until now.
The mysterious case of Benjaman Kyle has the one-time nuclear physist stymied.
“I’m an avid genealogist,” says Fitzpatrick, 54, of Fountain Valley. “And I have a knack for finding people that others have given up on.”
This time, however, the person’s already been found. This time, the question is: Who the heck is he?MYSTERY MAN B.K. DOE
There is a short prayer that goes: St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come down, something is lost, and can’t be found.If anyone ever needed the Patron Saint of Lost Things it is “B.K. Doe,” a man who thinks he’s in his 60s but, like everything else about his life, isn’t certain.
In 2004, he was beaten, stripped and dropped by the dumpster of a Burger King in Richmond Hill, Georgia. It wasn’t until he landed in a Savannah hospital that anyone realized just what he’d lost: his memory.
The hospital nicknamed him Burger King “B.K.” Doe, and that’s who he remained. With no family, no home, no paper trail – a big problem for Fitzpatrick.
I’m sure that Colleen is already aware of this, but for those of you reading this, perhaps for the first time, as of the beginning of April 2010, BK has been proven to be a fraud. For some reason, he has been faking his amnesia, although at this time, no one still knows his real identity. So, still a puzzle!
This is an interesting comment, but what I don’t understand is why someone who is asking the rest of the world to check his fingerprints, DNA and and all of his other personal information be so public about asking for help. If he was really a fraud, then why wouldn’t he try to avoid public attention instead of making himself so vulnerable? Can you please share with us the proof of his supposed fraudulence?
The on-line crime sleuthing community that I belong to spent thousands of dollars on his case and now that he has won the lottery he will not have anything to do with us.
Well, I guess thats lucky for him…but does he not need an identity in order to be able claim his winnings? A social security number? Proof that he exists?
If he isnt Benjamin Kyle? then who is he? do we know this information ?
Hmm this is the Firsat I had heard about his winning the lottery? I have been involved in this case a long time, and was not a poster but an avid reader of the web sleuthing site you refered to…and an FYI he was never an full participant in the site and the search. His responses left a lot to be desired and were never what one would think or expect someone who was trying to find out who they were, would have been. I didn’t spend a lot of money but certainly a lot of time searching and gave what I thought was good info and leads, but I was never told what became of them or if they had ever even reached anyone to be investigated. I started feeling something was very wrong when I gave the info I did and got nothing in the way of a response or even a thanx, and come to realize the people I was dealing with were in fact no one of authority just other message board posters, who wanted to carry an air of being an insider just because they had stumbled upon the case before I had.
I am still interested in this case for the mere fact that I just simply can not believe that there is Not even ONE person out there in this world that can not come forward and say…ohh yeah that guy was my nieghbor, my ex Brother in law, a regular at my restaurant Etc…I just can’t believe that…as a matter of fact what my research has found is that in fact there has been at least one who has, but has as much as been ignored. anyone willing or wanting to discuss further just respondto this and I will give my email and we can discuss..start our own message board even if ya want.
I believe Benjamin Kyle Doe to be Roger Ellison, a missing young man from Colorado. Just put his pic up beside that of Roger Ellison. The similarities are enormous.
Brenda, I agree. The age progression photo of Roger Ellison looks just like Benjaman Kyle.
I just watched him on the news — maybe CNN — I completely understand his memory loss. I have one month I cannot recall from 15 years ago. Stuff happens in the incredible brain that we can’t understand. He was in Georgia . . . SOMEBODY had to know him. Cameras HAD to see something. This is the first I’ve ever heard of him.
This is the first I’ve heard of him as well and it’s been 8 years?? If this case is true, which I think it is, we need to get this stuff viral, especially in his hometown.
I think Benjaman Kyle looks like missing Larry Michael Wood.