It turned out that Mike Myers wasn’t his birth name. The archives revealed a record for a baby boy named Gordon Michael Oakley.
With this document, they were finally able to get Mike an ID card. For the first time in 30 years, he officially existed! This story hit the local news: a kind cop helps a homeless man reclaim his name.
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It seemed like a happy ending. Mike got his papers and was eligible for aid. But a private investigator named Mark Askins saw the news segment on TV. The last name “Oakley” rang a bell. He decided to conduct his own investigation pro bono.
He started searching for relatives of “Gordon Michael Oakley.” And he found someone Mike thought was long dead.
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