Roots & Riddles
The Mystery of Wykoff’s John Doe
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On the night of July 6, 1947, an unidentified man was struck and killed by a freight train near the Wykoff depot. He carried no identification, and no one seemed to know who he was.
But his fingerprints told a much stranger story.
Authorities connected the dead man to seven different names, used during arrests stretching from New York and Pennsylvania to Iowa and Minnesota. One of those…