Missing US tourist found alive 5 years on
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An American tourist who vanished from northern Australia five years ago, with his kayak found submerged near a beach, has been discovered alive by police investigating a burglary.
The man, named in the media as Kenneth Rodman, was last seen by a friend in 2010 near Port Douglas, 60 kilometers north of tourist town Cairns, as he was heading to a beach.
His kayak was discovered a month later submerged in waters several kilometers south of where he launched it and Rodman, then 55, was never heard from again.
鈥淔riends, family and police were unable to make contact with him since 2010,鈥 Queensland state police said in a statement late on Monday.
鈥淥n Saturday night, officers investigating a matter stumbled across the now 60-year-old man where he allegedly confessed to police that he had been listed as a missing person.鈥
The Cairns Post said he was arrested after being chased down by a police dog while officers were investigating a routine burglary in Cairns.
He is believed to have been hiding out mostly in tropical far north Queensland but it is not known if he had help or why he staged his disappearance.
Police said he had been handed over to immigration officials and was expected to be deported to the United States.
This comes just weeks after another American in the same area reportedly turned out not to be who he said he was.
Dennis 鈥淟ee鈥 Lafferty was a pioneer of the north Queensland tourism industry, running a crocodile cruise company for 28 years until he died in a car accident in late May.
As friends in the area mourned his death, the Tampa Bay Times ran a headline: 鈥淭raffic accident in Australia ends 40-year-old mystery in Florida.鈥
It claimed Lafferty was in fact Raymond Grady Stansel Jr, who had been presumed dead in the US for 40 years, after disappearing while scuba diving in 1975.
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