Officer Stopped a Homeless Man Who Had Been Begging for 30 Years. When He Ran His Name, He Dropped His Pen and Made a Phone Call

Officer Swallowell decided to do something way above his pay grade. He promised to help Mike get his ID back. Without an ID, Mike couldn’t get social security, a pension, or housing.

But it turned out to be harder than solving a murder case. In the DMV database, “Mike Myers” simply didn’t exist. No records. It was as if he had dissolved into thin air 30 years ago.

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The clerks shrugged: “We need a birth certificate.” But Mike had nothing but the clothes on his back. Mike was ready to give up. He was used to failure. But Officer Swallowell was stubborn. He enlisted the help of his pastor, and together they began digging through old archives.

And what they found in the old church records shocked them all.

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