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(CNN)Missing for decades, one man just solved his own missing persons case, according to Canadian police.

For 30 years, a Canadian man lived under a different name with an apparently unknown past and didn't know he had any relatives, until now, according to the Niagara Regional Police.

After landing in front of a social worker on January 7, a 51-year-old man suddenly remembered who he was: His real name was Edgar Latulip and he was from Kitchener, Canada.

That's when the memories started to come back.

Latulip apparently left his hometown of Kitchener back in 1986 on a bus destined for Niagara Falls, according to Constable Phil Gavin, a spokesperson for the Niagara Regional Police Department.

After arriving in Niagara Falls, Latulip reportedly made his way to St. Catharines Ontario. On his way, he somehow fell and suffered a head injury which "robbed him of his memory and identity," Gavin said.

Latulip remained in the city of St. Catharines for the next 30 years, living independently, according to Gavin. Authorities are wary of revealing too much about Latulip's life over the last 30 years out of concern for his privacy.

When Latulip had the apparent epiphany about his name, the social worker, who police are also not identifying because of privacy concerns, immediately researched his name and came across an unsolved missing persons case and a cold case news article from a neighboring town paper written in 2014 that matched his recollections. Latulip's case was then referred to the Niagara Police Department where detectives interviewed him. He continued remembering things he hadn't recalled in 30 years, according to Gavin.

Latulip provided the Niagara Police Department with a sample of DNA to be tested against a relative who was living in Waterloo at the time. The DNA sample was then sent to a laboratory which confirmed a match on February 5.

Authorities contacted his mother who now resides in Ottawa and told her the good news.

 
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