Missing! Henry E. Christopher

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Section: Identification
Henry E. Christopher, a grocery store salesman, went missing and was declared dead after a mutilated body found several months later was assumed to be his. A funeral was held, and his property was distributed to his heirs. After a ten-year absence, he returned to his sister’s house in Fresno, California, and refused to explain his disappearance. “He is in the best of physical health and is apparently perfectly rational,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “According to old acquaintances, except for a few gray hairs, he looks just the same as before he went away.”