The mystery of the "forest boy" is solved. He is Robin van Helsum, a 20-year-old Dutchman reported missing last September. Confronted, "he then confirmed his real personal details and admitted that the previous story — that he had lived for years in the woods — had been invented." [AP]
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Jun 15, 2012
Forest boy identified
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