A follow up story in the Seattle Times today says that the man who walked out of Discovery Park in July with apparent amnesia, has reappeared in Las Vegas, N.M., again with no apparent memory of who he is. Edward Lighthart was found by local police wandering the streets, carrying a passport and old European identification. He is healthy but does not know his identity, though he did warm up to the name Lighthart. Doctors treating him searched the Internet and found local stories about Lighthart’s history in Seattle and hoped to use it to jog his memory.
On July 30, Lighthart flagged down a bus driver outside Discovery Park in Seattle. He was dehydrated and had no identification, but was carrying $600 in his sock. He was admitted to Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill campus, where he tried to organize the snippets of memories into clues. His true identity was discovered when his picture was published and a reader in China recognized him as Lighthart, an educated business consultant who had taught English in Shanghai. Rest of the story here.
